New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-30
NAsRY.
The Cenyersaon Of Elder Fennibaeker-
He Sees n Vision, Which Puts His
Feet on solid Democratic Ground.
Posr OFFIs. CoNFFpRrr ROADS,

WlCu, ever eelC6 Lne MOO OK OOnVeubuuu
hes bin skoffer and. a sore-head, is wunst
more within the fold. There wuz more re-
joicin when he came back than over all
within the fold, for he wuz a venerable
lamb witch had gone estray. = Like the
prodigal son, we slayed for him the fatted
calf.
Iwuz particularly pleased with his re.
return. He wuZ the kindest nv men, and
made the best corn whisky in this seek
shun. He he'd allus ben in the habit of
sendin, now and then, jug to his Faster at
the Post Offs, but sence his dissatisfack-
shun and consekent enlargement these
delikit attenshuns, SO grateful TO one in
frail helth, hez bin intermitted. But that is
all over, thank Heven. Yesterday morn
ing he come into the offs bearin that wich
to me is the most blessid nv peace otferins,
the.old familyer jug, witch settin down he
felfopto my neck and wept
"Parson!" sed he, his voice quiverln
with emoshun, and teers chasin each other
down his nose, :" its over. I've sinned and
hev repentid. Forgive me-"
"Elder ~ sed l, assoomin digniied air,
; she who departs and cometh baek-dont
kick over that jug, for the stopper amt 10
tite-is to me more preshus than if he hednt
| hIChcu OVER Tic kEdCts, Dies yOO, nv son.
Here's tin cup witch will do"
The Elder then told me how he he'd bin
converted. He he'd determined not TO vote
at all. He didn't bleve in Seymore, coz he
is pledged to pa the debt in greenbax, and
he detested Blare becoz he wuz wunst a
bloc kotid hirelin, and becoz in marryin
him we marry the entire Rlare family, witch
is too much. He didn't bleeve that either
| M fryty 10 haf tad 10 didn't
that either ov EN- was troo to the South.
Feeling pekoolyerly bitter, ne went to bed
the mite atore, and nursin his wrath he fell
asleep and dreamed.
He dreamed that he WIZ in a vast as
semblage NV the Democracy, very like the
Nashnel Convenshuu. There wuz shoutin
and hollerin, but be walked about gloomy
and sad, filled with the most fearful fore
bodins,
Presently in his dreem he approach the
grand stand witch wuz okkepied by the
leaders and devoted to the moosic ov the
occasion. Here most pekoolyer site met
his gaze. He notist one small but soft
toned instrument, boiler and very much
like a flute, evidently made for peeceful
straues, out NV witch Wade Hampton wuz a
strainin and BLOWN the most ferocious
and war-like sounds. The he'd Nv the in.
strument wuz Seymore's he'd, and ez be
lookt closter he found it assomed the genral
| appearance Nv the man. II tried hard to
keep the smooth melojus tones to witch it
wuz normelly adapted, but the grim-vis-
aged Hampton, whose wind is inexhausti-
BILE, blowd SIGH strong blasts and fingered
the holes so adroity that it played his
10 ms and his only.
| Just beside him stood Boregard a playin
| a brass instrument witch WIZ shaped so like
Blare ez to be him, which instrument Wuz
Nv the Trombone nacher. Borogard he'd
no trouble with it. 1t wuz ez discordent
nachrelly ez it coold be, and it wuz SPLEEN
didly adapted to the capassity of the player.
| 1 give the dreem henceforth in the FL
| der's own words:
swat in thunder sed l to a man WITCH
seemed to be sort nv engineering the CON
! cert, wat n thunder is Seymore and
Blaire and SIGH ez them furnishin moosic
for strate Suthern democracy for? Are
we to be compelled to submit to the tool
Nv bondholders and to Feedral sellers
and SIGH? Ez for one, will never-n
| Don't talk like an eggrejis ass ~ sed
this man. Hewitt you any sense? Can't
| you see that Seymore and Blare are mere
| ly the instrooments witch are played onto.
and that Boregard and Wade Hampton are
the individools who furnish the wind and fin.
ger the holes. Listen, how grandly Dixie"
and the "Bonny Bloc Flag" swells out
onto the air and fills surrounding space
And see, ez Boregard shoves out the from
bone how it hez knockt off the stand all
them witch from former attachment to the
instrument wuz close to it, and how sweetly
the piZen breth witch is bein blowed, tho
| its combined with that Nv the instrooment
itself, hez smothered all them who's pres
eIce wood have embarast us. Miles
O'Reilly it killed, and all that pestiferous
breed Nv War Democrats like him are layin,
overpowered with it, fat onto their backs.
They may possibly survive, but they are
SO stoopefed that they wont git up till after
Their opportoonity for hurtin US is passed.
Them" sed the Elder, my dreem
changed. Methawt the eleckshun wuz
over, and that we he'd triumphed. l wuz
to home in Kentucky, All here wuz peece.
| The Buro offisers he'd folded Their tents like
the Arabs, and silently stole away. The
military wuz withdrawn, and there WIZ
nothin bloc in the South save and except
the faces Nv the few Northern men witch
eoodent git away. The very air wuz full
Nv the costs NV the ded Federal soliers in
the South, all Nv witch wore an expreshun
Nv hoomiliashen ez tho they felt they he'd
| bin manufactured into costs for very con-
| siderable less than nothin. Reconstruct
shen he'd bin undone and all laws enfran-
chisin niegers ard deprivin our heroes NV
| suffrage wuz bustid. We wuz free. Their
| he'd bin gineral cleanin out NV Northern
| settlers, carpet-baggers and obstreperous
niggers. i notist with infnit pleasure that
Pollock's store he'd bin gated, and Joe
| Bigler's corpse (he spoke this in a low
tone, and looking fearfully over his shout
der to make shoor no one heerd HIM wuz
lyin on the square.
| Sich of the diggers ez Good be controlled
were at work under laws we he'd passed
for EN- regulatin labor, at an average Nv
81 per month, and SIGH ez he'd become too
independent for that, he'd either been shot
or driven out Nv the country. The amend
ments, given em votes and SIGH. he'd bin
oveIruled, and in Tennessee and the other
States they he'd bin reffoost to their normal
speer, and the power wuz wunst more in
the hands Of SIGH patriots ez Forrest and
SIGH. Brownlow he'd bin hung, their
newspapers destroyed, and them witch
supported EN- scattered to the four winds.
In the corners all wuz peece. We had
niggers on eur plantations ez before the
war, and we, the roolin race, was relieved
Nv the degradin labor wich so onfits
Caucasian for the enjoyment Nv life. The
entire Corners hevin nothin to do and plen-
ty to hive on, wuz perpetooally gathering
IN front Nv Bascom's pitchin coppers, run
min quarter races and ever and anon ceas-
ing their manly endorsements to quaff the
fowin boles witch he supplied. We Good
baar TINA tho r-alr, L.