The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-25

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The Conversion of ElderPennIbaeker
-.-He Sees n Vision which Puts His
Feet ON solid Democratic Ground.

Posi- OFFS CoSFEDRrr " ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,
August Is, 1865.
Jov TO the world! Elder Peuniback-
er,. wich, ever sence the Moo York Con-
yenshun, hez bin a skoffer and a sore
head. Is wunst more within the fold.
There guz more reioicin when he come
back than over all in the told, for he
wuz a venerable lamb witch he'd gone
astray. Like the prodigal son, We
slayed for him the fatted calf.
L wnz particularly pleased with his
return. He wuz the kindest NV men,
and made the best corn whisky in this
seckshun. He he'd alluz bin in the
habit NV sendin, now and then, a jug to
his paster at the postof1is, but sence his
dissatisfackshun and consekent es-
arrangement, these delekit attenshuns,
SO grateful TO one in frail helth, hez bin
intermitted. But that is over, thank
heyen. Yesterday mornin he came
into the offs bearin that wtch to me IS
the most blesstd NV peece otferins, the
old familier jug, witch. setttn down. he
fell onto my neck and wept.
"ParsonI sed Che, his voice quiveriu
with emoshen, and tears chasln each
other down his nose, sits over. I've
sinned and hev repented. Forgive
mep
'sElder!'' sed /, assOOmin a dignified
air, "he who departs and cometh back
don't kick over that jug, for the stop
per amt in tite-is TO me more precious
Than ifhe hedn't kicked over the traces.
Bless VOC, my son. Here's 4 tin cup
which will do"
The Elder then told me how he'd bin
He he'd determined not to
vote at all. He didn't bleeve in Sey-
more, coz he is pledged to pay the debt
in greenbaX, and he detested Blair be-
q. III H. 80 Al H.
and becOz in margin him We marry the
entire Blair family which is too much.
He didn't bleeve that either Nv em was
Iroo to the South. Feelin pekoolyerly
better. he went to bed the mite atore,
and uursin his wrath he fell asleep and
dreamed. That dream saved him.
He dreamed that he was in a vast as
semblage NV the Democracy, very IKE
the Nashnel Convenshun. There wuZ
shoutin and hollerin, but he walked
about gloomy and sad, filled with the
most fearful fOrebodins.
Presently in his dream he approach
the grand stand which wuZ Okkepied
by the leaders and devoted to the mu-
sic NV the occasion. Here a most per-
kooIyer site met his gaze. de notist
one small but soft-toued instrument
boiler and very much like e lute, evil
IDENTIFY made fur peecefnl straines, out
nv wich Wade Hampton WIZ straintn
and BLOWN the most feroshus and war
like sounds. The he'd Nv the inStru-
ment wuz Seymour's he'd, and ez he
lookt closter he found 1t asSoomed the
general appearance NV the man. 1t
tried hard to keep the smooth melojus
tones to witch it wuz normelly adapted;
but the grim-vissaged Hampton, whose
wind is exhaustible, blowd SIGH strong
blasts and fingered the holes SO adroit-
ly, that. IL played his toons and his
only.
playin brass instrument witch wug
shaped so like Blare ez to be him, witch
instrument wuz Nv the Trombone ma
cher, Boregard he'd no trouble with it.
1t wuZ ez discordent nachrelly ez il
Good be, and it wuZ splendidly adapted
to the capassity nv the player.
1 give the dreem henceforth in the
ELDERS own words:
"Wat in thunder" sed to n man
witch seemed to be sort NV engineerin
the concert, "wat in thunder is Sey-
more and Blare and SIGH ez them fur
nishin moosic for strRte Suthern De
mocracy for? Are we to be compelled
to submit to the tool NV bondhOlders
and to Fedral soljers and SIGH? Ez for
one, 1 will never"
sed this man. Hewitt you AIRY seuseE
Can't You see that Seymore and Blair
are merely the lnstrOoments witch are
PLAYED onto, and that Boregard and
Wade Hampton are the indiYidoOals
who furnish the wind aud finger the
holes. Listen, how grandly Dixie
and the {" Bonny Bloc Flag" swells out
onto the air and fills surroundin space!
And see, as Boregard shoVes out the
trombone how II hez knockt of the
stand all them witch from former at
tachment to the instrooment wuz close
to it, and how sweetly the piZen brett
WITCH is bein bloWed, tho its combined
with that NV the instrooment itself, he;
smothered all them whose presence
wood hev emb0rnst US. Miles o RetlleN
it killed, and all that peStiferOuS breeC
NV War Democrats like him are layiu
overpowered with IL, flat on their backs
They may possibly survive, but they
are so stoopefied that they wont get NJ
till after Their opportoonity for hurtiI
us is passed.
.sThen," sed the Elder, "my dreen
changed. Methawt the elecshun WI
over, and that we he'd triumphed.
wuz TO home in Kentucky. All her
wuZ peece. The Buro. officers he'
| folded their tents like Arabs, and 81
| lently stole away. The military WI
withdrawn, and there wuz nothin bio
in the South, save and except the face
NV the few northern men witch cooden
git away. The very air was full NV tn
| costs nv the ded Federal soiers in tn
South, all nv witch wore an expreshui
NV hoOmiliashen eZ tho they felt the,
he'd bin manufactured into costs 70
yery considerable less than nothin
ReconstTuCkshen he'd bin undone, an
all laws enfranchisin niggers deprivi
| our heroes nv suffrage wuZ bustid. w
wuz free. Their had bin a gineral clean
| In out nv Northern settlers, carpet bag
4 oh MIC
| tist with mint pleasure that Pollock
store he'd bin Quilted, and Joe Bigler'
| corpse The spoke this in a low toni
and lookin fearfly over his shoulder I
make sure that no one heerd him) wa
| a lyin on the Square.
Sich of the niggers eZ Good oe cor
trolled were at work under laws "
he'd passed for EN- regulatin labor, at a
average NV s. 90 per month, and SIGH {
he'd become too independent for tina
he'd either bin shot or driven ont NV th
country. The amendments, given U
EN- votes and SIGH, he'd bin overruleC
/ and in Tennessee and the other State
they he'd bin redoost to their normi
speer, and the power wuz Wunst mol
in the hands nv sIch patriots ez FORE:
and SIGH. BrO8nlow he'd bin huns
Their newspapers destroyed, and theI
witch supported em scattered to the fou
winds. In the Corners all wuz peeci
we he'd niggers on our plantations {
before the war, and we, the roolin rae
was relieved nv the degradin labC
Wich SO onfits a Caucasian for the Ell
joyment nv life. The entire Corner
hevin nothin to do and plenty to liy
on, wuz perpetooally gathered in froI
of Bascom's, pitchin coppers, runui
q uArter races, and ever and anon ceasi
!. their manly endorsements to quaf Il
flown boles witch he supplied. "
Good hear, any time, the cheerful vel
: nv bloodhounds in the swamp beyol
the Run, chasin runaways, and ez thi
. | Wuz no longer any law aRin Their shoe