Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-11

Feet on Solid Democratic Ground.
Posr OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS. !
fWich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
August Is, 1865.
Joy to the world Elder pennibacker,
wieh, ever sense the Moo York Convenshun,
hez bin skoffer and sore he'd. is wuust
more within the fold. There wuz more re-
ioicin when he come back than over all
within the fold for he was venerable lamb
wich he'd gone estray. Like the prodigal
son, we Stayed for him the fatted calf
wuz particularly pleased with his re-
turn. He wuz the kindest NV men, and
made the best corn whiskey in this seek
shun. He he'd alluz bin in the habit of
sender, now and then, a jug to his Pastor
at the Post Offs, but sence his dissatisfaek-
shun and consckent arrangement, these
delikit attenshuns, so grateful to one In frail
heltb, hez been intermitted But that is all
over, thank Heyen. Yesterday morning he
come into the offs bearin that wich to me is
the most blessed US peece oiferins, the old
familyer Jug, wich, settin down, he fell onto
my neck and wept.
''Parson I sed be, his voice quiyerin
with emoshen, and tears chasin each other
down his nose, ''it's over. I've sinned and
hey repentid Forgive mel"
Elder !" sed 1, assoomin dignifed air,
be who departs and cometh back--don't t
kick over that jug, for the stopper amt in
tite-is to me more precious than if he
hedn't kicked over the traces Bless you,
my son. Here's tin cup wich will do. "
The Elder then told me he he'd been con-
verted. He he'd determined not to vote at
all. He didn't bleeve in Seymour, coz he
is pledged to pay the debt in greenbax, and
he detestid Blare becoz he Wuz wunst a
bloc bellied hirelin, and becoz in marryin
him we marry the entire Blare family, wich
is too much He didn't bleeve that either
Nv EN- waz to be trusted He didn't bIeeve
that either Nv EN- was troo to the South.
Feelin pekoolyerly bitter, he went to bed the
mite afore, and nursin his wrath be fell
asleep and dreamed That dream saved.
He dreamed that he was in a vast assem-
blage Nv the Democracy, very ike the
NashueI Conveushun. There wus shoutin
and holerin, but he walked about gloomy
and sad, filed with the most fearful fore
bodins
Presently in his dream he approached the
grand stand wich w1z okkepied by the lead.
ers and devoted to the occasion. Here a
most pekoolyer site met his gaze. He no.
tist one small but soft toned instrument,
holler and very much like fute, evidently
made for peaceful stranes, out NV wich
Wade Hampton wuz strainin and BLOWN
the most ferosuhs and war like sounds.
The he'd NV the instrument wuz Seymour S
he'd, and ez he lookt closter he tound it as
soomed the general appearance nv the man.
1t tried hard to keep the smooth melojus
tones to wich il Wuz normelly adapted, but
the gFim-visaged Hampton, whose wind is
,xhaustible, bloWd sich strong blasts and
sered the holes SO adroitly, that it played
his toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Boregard playin
a brass instrument wich wuz shaped so like
Blare ez to be him. wich instrument wuz Nv
the trombone naeher. Boregard he'd no
trouble with it 1t wus ez discordsnt mach
RELY ez it Good be, and It Euz splendidly
adapted to the capassity NV the player.
give the dream henceforth in the Ell
der own words: