The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-12


best corn whisky III the scckshun. lie he'd
alluz BIN in the habit of sendim. now and
then, jug to his Faster at the Poet Oils,
but sense his dlssatistacI shun and conse-
kent enlargement, these delekit attens huns,
So grateful to one in frail heth, hez bin in
termittcd. But that Is all over, thank Hcv
en-. Yesterday morning be cO1c into the
oiliis bearin that wich to me is the most
blessed Nv peace offerins, the old famiyer
jug, wich settin down, he fell onto my neck
and wept
Parsonn - sed he, his voice quivcrin
with emoshen, and tears chasin each other
down his nose, Its over. I've sinned and
hev repentid. Forgive me -
/ Elder !" sed Il assoomin a dienified
air, g he who departs and cometh back
don't kick over that jug, for the stopper
amt in tite--i. to me more precious than if
he he'd mt kicked over the traces Bleo
700, my son. Here's a tin cup wich Will
do
The Elder tien told ne how 10 he'd bin
converted. He lad determined not to vote
at all. He diden't bleeve in Seymore, cog
he is pledged to pay the debt in Aeenbax,
and he detested Blsre becoz be wuz bloc
kotid hirelin, and beccs 10 margin him we
marry the entire Blare family wich is too
much. He didn't bleeve that either NV EN-
wuz to be trusted. He didn't blseve that
either NV EN- was tros to the South. Fecln
aLoo r1,,I 10 Ill IL
afore, and nursin his wrath he fell asleep
and dreamed. That dream saved him.
He dreamed that nc was in vast assem-
blage Nv the Democracy, very ike the Nash
mel Convenshun. There wus shoutin and
holerin, but he walked about gloomy and
sad, filled with the most fearful forbodns
Presently in his dream he approached the
grand stand wich wuz okkepied by the lead.
ers and devoted to the moosic nv the occa-
sion. Here a most peakoolyer site met his
gaze. He notist one small but soft-toned
instrument, boiler and very much like a
flute, evidently made for peaceful stranes,
out Nv wich Wade Hampton wuz stranin
and BLOWN the most feroshus and war like
sounds. Tha he'd of the instrument wuz
Seymore's he'd, and ez he lookt closter he
found it assoomed the general appearance NV
the man. 1t tried hard to keep the smooth
melojus tones to witch it wus normely adapt
ed, but the grim-vsage9 Hampton, whose
wind is ineXhaustible, blowed sich strong
blasts and fingered the holes so alroitly,
that it played his toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Boregard playin
brass instrument witch wuz shaped so like
Blsre ez to be him, wich instrum sllt WIZ nv
the Trombone nscher. Boregard he'd no
trouble with it. 1t VIM ez discordent mach
reilly ez it Good be, and it wuz splendidly
adapted to the cspassity Nv the player.
give the dreem henceforth in the Elders
own words:
"Wat in thunder" sed to a man wich
seemed to be sort Nv engineerin the concert,
g wat in thunder is SeyInore and Bare and
SIGH ez them furnishin moosic for strate
suthern democracy for? Are we to be
compelled to submit to the tool Nv bond
holders and to Fedral soljers and SIGH? Ez
for one, | will never
Don't talk like an eggrejis ass !" sed this
man. "Hevn't you any sense? Can't you
see that Seymore and Blarc are merely the
INSTRUMENTS witch are played onto, and that
Borcgard and Wade Hampton are the ind-
vidooals who furnish the wind asl finger the
holes Listen, how grandly "Dixe" and
the 50 Benny Bloc Flag swells out onto
the air and fills surroundin space! And see
aZ Boregard shoves out the trombone how
It hez knockt off the stand all them wich
wuz close to it, and how swcety the pizen
oreth witch is bein blowed, tho its combined
With with, that Nv the The, i4.ireese,t is,lf, hez
all that pos.iferon. breed ~ NJ DilHocrats
like him are layin, over7o~ered nth it, Hat
onto Their backs. They May possibly sur
sive. but they are so stoopefied that they
wont git up till afic. Their opportoonty for
hurtin us is passed.
"Then,' sed the Elder, "my dreeEl
changed. Methawt the eleckshun wuz over,
lnd that we he'd truinphcd. | WIZ to home
in Kentucky. All here wuz peace. The
Baro officers he'd folded Their tents tikc the
Arabs, and silently stole away The mill
tary WIZ withdrawn, and ther WIZ nothin
bloc in the South, save and except the faces
nv the few Northern men wich coodent git
away. The very air wuz fall Nv the costs
Nv the ded Fedral solers in the south, all NV
wich wore an expreshun uy hooniilashun ez
tho they felt they he'd bin manufactured into
costs for very little less than nothin. Re
he'd blu nndone, and all laws
en- franchisin ni.gers and dcprivn our heroes
Nv suffrage wuz bustid. We wuz free. Their
he'd bin ginceral cleanin out of Northers
settlers, carpet baggers and obstreperous
Tigers. | notist with infnit pleasure that
Pollock S store he'd bin Quilted, and Joe Big
lers corpse ;he spoke this in low tone,
and ookin feartully over his shoulder to
make shoor no one hcercd HIM WAS layn
on the Square.
Sich of the niggers ez Good be controlled
were at work under laws we he'll passed for
EN- regulatin labor, at an average nv 81 90
per month. and sich ez he'd become too in
dependent for that, he'd either bin shot or
driven ont nv the country The Amend
ments Given nv en- votes and SIGH, he'd bin
oyerru!cd. AMI in resscsscc and the other
states they he'd bin rcdoost to their normal
specr, and the power WIZ wunst more IN the
hands nv SIGH patriots ez Forrest, and SIGH.
Brownlow he'd bin huns. Their nooscpapcrs
des,ro, Ell, and them wich supportil EN- scat
tered to the four winds. In the Corners all
wua peace. We he'd niggers on our piantI-
lions cz before the war, aud we, the roolin
race, was relieved NY the degradn labor
wich SO onfits Caucasian for the enjoyment
nv life The entire Corners hcvin nothin to
do and plenty to live on, wuz perpetooaily
in front Of Bascom 5, pitchin corHcrs runnln
quarter races, and ever and anon ceasin
their manly amoosementt to quaf the flown
boles witch he supplied. We Good hear, any
time. the cheerful yrIp NV bloolhoands in
the swamp beyout the Run, chasin runa-
ways, and cz Their wuz no longer any law
agin shootin ni9-crs. s!,a:ccly a day passed
one or more wuz MT killed. My dis,illery WIZ
4 runnin full blast, the smoke NV the tor
ment asscnlin from its chimney forever.