Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-07
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| Qeceest, ana IL Q0eS EN- gO0d TO sec NE
Affected When one can confer satisfaction
at so little trouble ez to carry an onion in
his pocket handkerchief he wood be broot
indeed eff he did not prove hisself excl to
| the occasion. e'5-' - 80 'iN9 9'5 q
Elder Pennibacker wuz bornini the cast
ern part NV Pennsylvany, Nv real old
Democratic stock. He wuz born amid the
scenes Nv the war Nv Independence, and
| he crowd up with ReVolooshenary mem
ries inspirin him. His father fought, in
the RevOlooshen, havin come all the way
| across the Atlantic to do it. He was a
Hession, and therefore wuZnt penshund by
| the .Amerlkin Government. But at the
Fourth Nv Jooly celebrashens, the old man
| Wuz invited to sit on the stand, the 20.
many Nv that secshun not KNOWN that it
made any difference ez to the side he took
| in the struggle t8rz ~
Young Absiun crowd up amid existent
1ntloounces. There wuznt no skools in the
visinity in his infancy, and jist ez he mite
| hey bin contaminated by EN-, his father
moved to Kentucky, where he Wuz safe
from all SIGH. The old gentleman dyin,
| Abslum inherited the paternal akers, and
pateruai niggers, and become man among
men. The genius Nv the man now began
to develop. Unbranded by the narrer
| views Nv his paternal ancestor, he boldly
| launcht out for himself He early distin-
guished hisself by his inventive genius
| which took the real Kentucky shoot. Twas
| him which conceived the idea Nv bTaidin
small wire into the lashes Nv niger whips !;
and not satisfied with that, he, after a
months hard study, brought out the im-
provement an the niger paddle Nv boring
holes into 1t. He he'd desprit struggle to
git it adoptid. The blind planters Nv the
naighborhood he'd 7fathe in the old paddle,
| plain, and the Elder wrz forst to demon
strate, by actooal experiment on his mig
gers, its sooperiority. He killed two in
doing it, but he triumphed. Itwuz found
| that more chastisement Good be inflicted
| with it in a given time, than by the old
| method, and that it lasted longer. -
need not say wat his politics wuz. He
| wuz never nothin but a Dimocrat. BE
| commenst his career votin three times for
/, Jackson, and the candidates which fol-
| Tered in succession he'd no cause to com
plain Nv his zeel. Under Bookanan his
faithfulnis was rewarded. The post offs
witch now hold vuZ given him, and he dis
charged the dooties faithfully and to the
best Nv his ability. Ez he coodent read
he put wat letters witch arriv out into a
box outside, lettin every one who come
take one eff they wanted to-. The paper
witch come to the offs for Deekin PogramI
| he feared to distribbit in two weeks. The
out-goin mail he dumped into Louisville
| bag, feelin great load wuz off his mind
when it departed. He held the offs till
| they wanted him to make out a quarterly
report. He was nonplussed. He either
he'd to buy q niger who could reed and
write or resign, and he resigned. "A half
cta rvypd VanGon Mid i'm his cfooH
who reigned till / relieved him.
The Elder wuz the happy possesser NV
three hundred niggers. They wuz proba-
bly, the best lot of niggers, ez they run, in
Northwestern Kentucky. He had three
shades Nv color. The trader Good find
anything in the line Nv niger, up to these
three, that he wanted, on his plantashen
There was the pure congo, the agil mulat-
to, and the comedy quadroon. There wuz
no higher mix than the quadroon, for it
will be remembered the family hedn't bin
slave-owners but three generashons. They
he'd accomplished % great deal, however,
for the time they he'd he'd EN-.
The Elder he'd bin in failin health ever
since 1862. In that year he embarkt into
speculashun witch bid fair to make hum
WIN the wealthiest men in the State,
and wood, he'd things bin continyood nor
NAL. Their wuz niggers runnin to the
Federal camps from all parts Nv the State,
and the Elder conceived an idea Nv goin
to the said camps and claimin NV en- The
oftiser in command wuZ so anxious to con-
siliate EN- that he wood gladly give EN- up,
without bein pertikiler about proofs, and
the Elder gathered, in that way, in two
months, over a hundred. It required a
good deal Nv rldin, and that fatigue, com.
| hiuP1 with thp nyYNOe11ro iprid ont %O Inch
whackin Federal pickets, wich wuz gardin
his fences and SIGH, brought on a spell NV
sickness from Wich he never fully recovered.
The Emancipashen Proclamashen nearly
finisht him, and he lingerd along, a broken
man ontil Johnson's 22d NV Febroory
speech, witch actid ez a tonic onto him.
He revived, but the effeck wuz temporary
! Ez the Conservatives made Roadway, he
| came up, and eZ Congris triumphed he
went down, and thus he lived like candle
III a tin lantern, fickerin or quiet, ez the
wind blowd. He pluckt up amazingly after
the eleckshuns last fall, but alas, the
treachefy Nv Meade and the Reinstatement
Nv Stanton wuz two blows from witch he
Good not hope to recover. And SO, yester-
day, at 2 p. m, witch in his case means
post mortem, he died.
s."1.Send in Sairey!" sed he, and favorit
mulatto woman Nv hizzen who, OWN to
the fact Nv her havin eight children, who,
wuz quadrooms, he'd stayed onto the place,
wuz sent for. She set on the bed, and the
Elders head wuz placed in her lap.
"Give me my munney," said he, and box
Nv Confedrit scrip wuz given him. And
so, with head il Sairey's lap, fngerin Con
fedrit scrip and taken likker out NV a
spoon, he passed gently away. It WIZ a
troo Kentucky deparcher =" This is the
eend nv life l"sedI. "May my eend be
like his" murmured Deekin Pograrn, and
all was DER.
There wuz trouble imnejitly. When
the Elders will wuz read wuz disappointed
to find that he he'd not remembered me,
ana Mrs Pennibacker wuz also disap-
pinted to find that the Elder he'd left the
half wv his estate to Sairey, and his wife,
Sairey and The people Nv the corners to
witch he wuz indebted in small sums, wuz
disappointed to find that Bascom he'd a
mortgage on everything the Elder
possessed, Nv quite its valyOo. Bascom, /
bleeve, hez mortgage onto every foot Nv
ground within ten miles Nv here. He
wood hev a mortgage onto my property,
make no doubt. ef he'd any. But amt,
halleloogy do wish, however, that some
one Nv more enlarged views wood start a
grocery here It's inconvenient to hey so
sharp man supplyin yeo with the absloot
necessities Nv life. We buried the Elder
to-day. 1t wuz huge funeral. In the
front wuz his children, by his wife, then
the entire Corners; and back NV them