Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
Nasty.
SERGEANT BATES IN PETTUsvILL, vA.-MR.
Nasty is PRESENT WHEN HE ARRIVES.

SERGEANT BATES IN PETTUSVILL, VA.-MR.
NAsBY is PRESENT WHEN HE ARRIVES.
WASHINGTON, d. c., APRIL 90, 1868.
Happenin to be in Washington at the
time Sergeant Bates, that noblest Roman
NV all the Northern men who took up arms
agin the Sunny South, wuz to arrive, it
Okkured to me that it would be payin
investment eff shood go out to Pettusville,
witch is a beautiful village cOntainin one
dry goods store and 13 food groseries,
sitooated about sixty miles from here, and
witness the reception that shood be given
him. Wat transpired thrilled me; in fact,
Inever felt SIGH thrill Nv JOY in my life
ez did when saw this battle-scared vet
ran heaye in sight. He came, proudly
bearin aloft the Flag witch, when the South
he'd her rites and owned the niggers body
and soul, in fee simple, wuz RELY and
trooly the Flag Nv the Free, but wich now
that, alars there amt a slave under its
shadder and all are permitted to do ez
they please, is the symbol Nv the most OPP
pressiye and grindin tyranny WITCH the
world ever witnist. s.,E--sr rnoo.r g14ri
But, nevertheless, the devoshun to the od
flag, witch a site NV it stirred up in the
breasts Nv the people NV Pettusville, RELY
surprised me. Never shell I forgit the site
that met my eyes. The Sergeant wuz met
three miles out Nv town, by perceshun
wich accompanied him in, in the followin
order: r..srtf9ee ynlue$E ao 5Hu,
Band, playin "Bonny Bloc Flag"
Detachment of the Pettusyille Avengers,
made up NV soliers which formerly served
in the, 18th Virginia, witch wuz employed
for fourteen months gardin Anderson
Vile. .,..f-.,a,, asdH. Ll7o
made up ouv ssons of Confedrit soGers
who wuz killed in the servis, with black
banners, onto witch, wuzI inscribed /" We
viii avenge our slain sires."
Qurtermaster Sergeant Bates Commissarry in
late q i $. lAd ,cdRr 5sfalt2h he g A.
te,;ad Amerikin flag. % ara 3
Four survivors NV the late onpleasantnis,
carrying each battleflag capche2ed from
Wisconsin regiments. g1o
Band playin !" Dixie Y melojusly. aa 2
Citizens, on, foot and horseback and in
carts "N'i~'
On strikin the corporation, the Mayor
captain Badger, NV Forests cavalry, and
the town clerk Qate Nv the lamentid John
Morgan's command) appeared, and the
procession stopped, While the formalities
lwuz gone through with. The Mayor re-
ceived the Sergeant in these words:5Y3..i
h "SERGEANT BATES, SIR: UNDERSTANDING,
eZ we do, that you chivalrously made
wager (Which is a bet) with a Wisconsin abb
lishnist that VOC Good walk from Vixburg
to Washinton carryin the Amerikin flag
unfurled without bein insulted nor nothin,
and heyin received testimony from leadin
Democrats nv Wisconsin, wichis entirely
satisfactory to us, that WOO are not in no
-xrY11z Of q firnp
pathy with the Ablishen, or ez they false
Nv style themselves, the Republican party,
we extend TO 700 the hopitalities Nv Pet
tusyille. And ez there are reporters pres
emit let me remark, dsir, that yoor expert
ence hez showd how falsely we hey bin
Judged by the crooel persekootersg Nv the,
Northern States 700 hey bin met on ey-
nv hand with nuthin but kindness. South
ern hospitality Nv the broadest kind hez
bin extended to 700. 700 hev he'd chaw
off evry plug-yoo hey he'd yoor suck out
NV eyry bottle, yoor nose shows that sence
VOC entered the Sunny South you hev not
bin allowed to taste water witch is our idea
Nv hospitable treatment. 4 Wat, my dear
sir. does this 90 to show? Wat does this
sprove?g Eff Charles Sumner for instance,
or Judge Kelley he'd bin so presumpshus,
or any other Republican, eZ to attempt SIGH
a feet, the outraged Southern hart wood
hev billed over and he wood hev bin tored
to pieces. wat does it prove? Improves
that faint the flag we object to so much
ez it is the men who hey bin in the habit
NV carryin it. In the hands gv consti-
tooshenel DimoTat its the same old flag
it alluz wuz.. + In SIGH hands, its russle
sounds in our GERS like the crack Nv the,
niger whip, and the site thereof is .sooth-
in. For when the flag wuz in them hands,
we hunted niggers under its folds IN the
streets nv, Boston. Under that nag we
shot Loveioy IL Alton, and sunk Baileys
press in the Ohio at Cincinnati Under
the shadow wv that blessed nag we sold
niggers at auction in Washington, and
that 1ag,sthat symbol Nv freedom, wood