Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20

THE PRESIDENTIAL ,ELECTION-THE NEWS
REACHES KENTUCKY THE x ROADS IN
MOURNING.
Posi- Offs, CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
..y5 (Which is in the State Nv KentUcky,)iv
November 5. 1868
Bad news travels fast. We hev heerd
from enuff of the States to know that the
butcher Grant-he witch wunst afore stood
in the way Of the Confedracy-hez been
elected President, and that Seymour and
Blare, our gallorious standard bearers, hev
been defeated ANONYMOUSLY.
This ends it ! This finishes it There is
no more hope for Democrisy. Our star is
sot in gloom. Never shall l forgit the
CHASTITY appearance Nv Deacon Pogram's
face, as the fatal nooze was told him. A
single tear rolled from mis- left eye, down
his furrowed cheek-it glittered tor brief
moment on the tip Nv his brilliant nose,
and plunged off into space! How like
our hopes! Never a word sed he, but
sadly beckoned me to foller. Sadly he
walked to the square, mournfully he pulled
down the Confedrit flag which hez waved
from the pole in front of Bascom's, ten
derby he folded it, and placed it under the
bari Nv whisky in the bar. "Thar let it
rest" gasped he in husky tone. B" 1t will
never kiss the breeZes no more" And
overcome with emoshun, the good old man
busted into flood Nv tears wich saved
his life. The drain NV moisture from his
system made it necessary for him to take
suthin to fill it's place, and that suthin wuz
strengthnin. To save him l took suthin
strengthnin too.
And Ben Butler is elected. That ex-
cellent conservative Richard FL. Dana,
who has forgotten that ruffled shirts went
out Nv date 90 yeers ago, and who still
reads the Nds7trlel I7otelJSge'scer sposin it to
be Wing paper, is defeated, and Butler,
who wunst hung a Demokrat in Moo Or
leans and who wood do that same every
mornin to give him an appetite, is fastened
onto this here wunst happy but now dis
tractid country for two yeers more. era
shus Hevins send the yaller fever to the
Corners now, and finish us up to wunst.
won't say word ez to the causes Nv
this most terrible defeat. Seymore wood
make speeches, witch hez alluz bin fatle to
Presidenshul aspirants, and 'Blare wood
write terrible letters, witch is just ez bad.
Besides, Blare fairly represents us, witch
druv off all the decent people, and Sey-
more ruthlessly prides hisself on bein a
gentleman, witch chilled the ardor of our
own party. The nominashens were un-
forchnit, but l don't reproach 'em. It's
fate.
l sigh, Deekin Pogram signs, and the
rest NV our cirkle wood sigh, only they
hewitt returned from Injeany, wher they
hev gone to vote in the interest Nv the
Constitooshen, and to aid in the mainten-
ance of the laws. .-stl
Sigh! I hev reason to sigh. For Pol
lock will git the Post Offs after all. Tho
his hands are contaminated by bein taken
into the hands Nv niggers-his hands witch
handles kaliker and draws molasses, andlis
consek emily degraded by earnin his own
livin-his hands will pass out to Deekin
Pogram the paper witch the Corners takes!
The Deekin, ez he thought Nv this, bust
into teers agin. 81 shell stop that paper,
said he, "and the Corners shel,nev agin
go for lette1-nor will I ever hev one
written for me to any body. When a
Ablishn face is at the General delivery I
shall stop paternizin the Post Offs p -
Will the new Administrator deprive a
whole community Nv paper merely to
give one Nv its supporters posishun? We
shall see $685. y
But, Good endoor the loss Nv my posi-
shen-for prinsiple kin look marterdom
sQuarelY in the face-but | see other and
irophe. . st
Wat Nv the niggers? Wat Nv us? We
shell hav niggers votin at the Corners !!
We shell heV, at our poles, all Nv the
black cusses who live between here and
Garrettstown, a votin ez Jegler ez though
they WIZ white men. We shell hev
EN- defilin the sakred ballot box ez
tho they Wuz not Nv a cussid race. l see
dark lines afore our poor State. They
will hereafter hold the land witch they hev
bought, and WITCH they live on, by shure
tenure, and they will increase and multi
ply. Pollock will buy ther prodoose and
they will work and get money. This
money they will lend to us-for we must
hev it to sustain life-and they will take
mortgages onto our land. (When say
our, I mean Deekin Pogram and sich.)
Ez we never work ourselves, and will not
hev, under the present arrangement, the
means OF compellin the labor necessary to
our support, we kin never pay and the
result will be, this beautiful land Nv ourn
witch we so deerly love, will pass out Iv
the hands Nv the stronger and better race
into the control NV weaker and less pow
erful people.
The Deeken was remarkin suthin to this
effect, when Joe Bigler remarkt in reply,
that the Deekin he'd better throw himself
onto the sympathy Nv his sons. t9a
"Why, they can't work any more than
I kim" sed the Dtekin. ~
81 don't mean your white sons!" sed
this horrible Bigler. They amt Nv no
akkount. But in the niger settlement at
Garrettstown 700 hev more than twenty
who wood" t.n4I
The poor Deekin rushed out Nv the
room, while Bigler laft his most feendish
laff. i.es.t
The people will be deprived Nv Their
innocent ENDORSEMENTS. This Grant will
send on armed hirelips, clothed in ojus
bloc, with muskets and SIGH, who will pre-
vent our shootin niggers, and who will
perfect on ther farms and in ther shops
the ojus Northeners who have settled in
our midst We shall see the glorious
Southern system decline stidily and shoor-
ly. The whippin poste will rot and the
stox will decay-the yelp Nv dorgs will no
more be heerd, and the cheerful crack NV
the pistol and the shreeck Nv the man wat
has got his cruel will no more be herd in
all the land. Bascom, after he hez the few
farms still .unmortgaged in the visinitty,
will close, and go to Louisville and en-
bark into wholesale grosery trade and
jine the church, and give literally to Sum-
dyskools his grosery will fall into dekay
and the sine will hang by one hinge. We
shell see churches and skool-houses, fac
trys and villages everywhere. The Pog-
ram place NV 1900 akers will be divided
up into twenty farms, and onto them
farms will be the bustlin Moo