Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-28

grim-visaged Hampton, whose wind is in.
exhaustible blowed sich strong blasts and
fingered the holes so adroitly, that 1t played
his toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Boregarda playin
brass instrument which was shaped so like
Blsre as to be him, wioh instrument wuz
NV the trombone nacher. Boregard had
no trouble with 1t. II wuz es discordent
nachrelly ez II Good be, and II wuz splen.
didly adapted to the capassity NV the
player.
l give the dreem henceforth in the Ell.
der's words
"Wat in thunder" sed I to q man wich
seemed TO be sort NV engineerln the con-
cert "wat in thunder is Seymore and
Blare and sich ez them furnishin moosic
for strate Suthern Dimocracy forS Are
we TO be compelled to submit to the tool
NV bondholders and to Federal soljers and
sichS Ez for one, | will never"
Don't talk like an eggreiis ASST" sed
this man. "Hevn't you any senseS Can't
you see that Seymore and Blare are mere
ly the instrooments wich are PLAYED onto,
and that Boregard and Wade Hampton
are the individooals who furnish the wind
and finger the holes. Listen, how grand
ly Dixie and the 'Bonny Bloc Flag ,
swells out onto the air and fills surroundin
space And see, ez Boregard shoves out
the trombone how it has knockt off the
stand all them wich from former attach
ment to the instrooment wuz close to 1t,
and how sweetly the pizen breth wich is
bein blowed, tho its combined with that
NV the instrooment ITSELF hez smOthered
all them whose presence wood hev embar-
Y NJ Of st III
that pestiferous breed Of War Democrats
like him are layin, overpowered with it,
flat onto their backs. They may possibly
survive, but they are 80 stoopefied that
they won't get up till after their opportl-
nifty for hurtin us is passed"
Then, sed the Elder, my dreem
changed Methawt the elekshun wuz
over, and that we he'd triumphed wuz
to home in Kentucky All here wuz peece
The Buro ofilsers he'd folded ther tents like
the Arabs, and silently stole away The
military wuz withdrawn, and ther wuz
nothin bloc in the South, save and except
the faces nv the few Northern men witch
coodent git away. The very air wuz full
NV the costs NV the ded Federal soliers in
the South, all NV wich wore an expreshun
Nv hoomiliashen ez tho they felt they he'd
bin manufactured into costs for very con-
siderable less than nothin. Reconstruk-
shen he'd BIN undone, and all laws en-.
franchisin niggers and deprivin our heroes
NV suffrage wuz bustid. We wuz free
Their he'd bin n gineral cleanin out NV
Northern settlers, carpet baggers and OBJ
streperous niggers. l notist with infnii
pleasure that Pollock's store he'd bin gut
ted, and Joe Bigler's corpse Che spoke thii
in low tone, and lookin fearily over hi
/ ahOnlIpr N M akn ahDpr M ono hnarI him
wuz lyin on the Square.
Sich of the niggers ez Good be CONTROL
ed were at work under laws we had passeC
for EN- regulatin labor, at an average uN
$4.00 per month"; and sich ez he'd become
too Independent for that, he'd either biz
shot or driven out Nv the country. TIL,
Amendments, givin NV EN- votes and siCh
he'd been overruled, and in Tennessee an(
the other States they he'd bin redoost t.
their normal speer, and the power WI
wunst more in the hands NV sich patriot
eZ Forest, and sich. Brownlow he'd BIZ
hung, ther noosepapers destroyed, an,
them wich supported EN- scattered to tn
four winds. In the Corners all wu
peece We he'd niggers on our plantation
ez before the war, and we, the roolin race
was relieved NV the degradln labor wich s
, ontits Caucasian for the enjoyment u
| life, The entire Corners hevin nothin
! do and plenty to live on, wuz perpetool
gathered in front of Bascoms, pitcbin COZ
pers, runnin quarter races, and ever an
anon ceasin in their manly amoosemen
to quatf the flowing boles witch he SUI
piled. We Good hear, any time, the chez
full yClp NV bloodhounds in the swan
beyont the Run, chasin runaways, and c
ther wuz no longer any law agin thei
shootin niggers, skacely day passed tina
one or more wuz not killed. My distiller
wuz a runnin full blast, the smoke of tn
torment asendin from its chimney forever
Oh, it was gorgus
"And is this to be ?" asked NV the dis
embodied spirit NV Bishop Poke, wich wu
shown it to me.
All this and more" returned he "Thu
will the South regain her lost rites. Thu
will the lost COZ be restored. Elect Sey
more and Blare, and all will be we'll"
AT this pint awoke," sed the Elder
"feelin how unjust he'd bin-how vilel
he'd sinned and how fearfully / he'd dC
parted. / wuz agoin back on rny party o
the greenback question Wat is greer
bax to this? Wat is payin debt in on
way or another compared to the extacy u
/ wallopin niggers, chasin Northern me
and hevin our instooshens back again
Wat is mere greenbax idea of hevin th
. entire Northern Dimocracy in our hand
agin, for us to mould ez we will ard d
with ez we like? Why, / woodent Civ
the luxury Nv hevin Moo Yorker on hi
; knees afore me eZ of old, minnit, for a
. the taxes will hey to pay for centur,
> Besides" and he busted out afresh, Z"
: BOregaId can make Seymore pipe Dixi
can't he also by different fingerin mai
!, the same instrooment play Reproduction
: | shood say so We hev em Pnrson-W
hev EN- Forgive me forgive meI'
And we embraced and wept, and too
! a drink, and wept again for joy. .Veril
my way is now pleasant and my paths
: made strate In the exuberance NV h
! joy he will keep my basket and my stoI
-Or rather my jug aud flask-full for
month.
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