Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

hey floated over the deck Nv every slave
ship which sailed from Africa, but for the
unjust and sooisidle laws which forced the
phflanthropists in the biznis to sail under
other penants. In yoor hands, and the
hands NV SIGH ez you, the flag is to us the
old FLAG it Wuz then, and its sacred to us
becoz under it we Good do all these things
That's why we love it, and that's why we
tolerate VOC with it, He'd it remained
SIGH we never wood hev raised our hands
agin it. When SIGH eZ Polk and Fillmore
and Bookanon he'd the CONTROL Nv it we
wuz satisfied with it and reverenced every
stripe and every star-the speer he'd that
surmounted it and the staff Wich upheld
it--for to us that flag meant suthin. 1t
meant freedom for us-free trade in mig
gers-it meant Suthern soopremacy-it
meant the rite to buy niggers-sell niggers
import niggers-eXport niggers-fog
niggers-hunts niggers. So long ez the
flag wuz SIGH we loved it. But when the
North dispooted our control NV it and put
it in the hands NV A. Linkin, a Ablishon-
list, it wuz our flag no more. Then we felt
that it must come dOwn-that its mission
wuz ended, and to us it wuz nothin. l
fred onto that flag | raised my hand
agin it, and proud / am. But borne by a
Democrats old style Democrats Demo
crat who stuck to us becoz he wuz Altered
Of niger ekality, it is wunst more the
same old flag, and we reverence it. Why,
then, when 700, carryin this emblim Nv
the nashun's grander, kin walk all over
the South, where all is peece and SO much
affeckshun is manifested for the flag, why
do they keep an army to overawe us?
Why"
A interruption here occurred. A shot
wuz heard, and the crowd rushed to see
wat is wuZ. They returned presently. A
| funeral procession Nv niggers wuz passin
| thro the next street a carryin to the mig
ger graveyard niger solger who had
| Jest died NV injooris received doorin the
| late onpleasantnis and ez they marched
with flag at ther head, the excited and
| insulted pOpulis he'd cleaned EN- out Two
NV EN- wuz shot and the preecher with EN-
wuz left for dead This over, they re-
turned and the Mayor went on. "Ser
geant Bates, welcome 700 and with 700
the flag, to Pettusville."
Sergeant Bates responded briefly. Since
he come to the South he he'd been treated
kindly. In the roOral deestriks once or
twice where the people in Their deliteful
| unsofistication don't read newspapers, and
consistently didn't jist know the objeck NV
his carryin the flag, he wuz went for rather
ruff, but few words cOnvinct EN- that he
wuz sound and it didn't incommode him.
The niggers in the rooral deestriks also
rather overwhelmed him with attenshuns,
but he he'd no difficulty in shakin EN- off.
Stickin copy IVY the Moo York World in
their face did it. He Good say he wuz de-
lifted with his experience. rs.F7 r.r
The ceremony bein over the Mayor
1 I'd 4. hnr x>l,x
Dixie and hetother the Bonnie Bloc Flag,
the perceshun moved to the town-hall,
where the Sergeant wus interdoost to the
principal citizens, incloodin the officers NV
the Kuk;K lux Khan.
| The affeckshun displayed for the flag is
rather techin than otherwise. Inotist sol
jers in the service Nv the late Confedera
| cy, who kist it in the fervor of their devo-
| shln. One man who had served four
years in Forests command, wept, ez his
eyes lit onto it and he remarkt that it wuz
| the happiest moment Nv his life; and a
lady the wife of an ex-kernel NV Lees
whose buzzum wuz decorated with pin
made from Federal soljer's skull, kist the
corner NV it, pertestin that it wuz deerer
to her than life
I left Pettusville entirely satisfied. Our
stump speakers hev now suthin to go on.
The flag hez gone through the South, its
folds hev kist the breeze in every South
ern State, and its carryer hezn't bin shot
on the spot onct. We kin now appel to
the people He'd a Ablishnist carried it
he would hev bin shot. Can't they see in
this the path to peece? Can't they see
how much more it wood harmonic things
eff they wood let SIGH men carry it all the
| times? Can't they see that, whereas, Their
will be continyool hart burnin in the
| South eff SIGH men ez Grant hez charge Nv
| the nashnel emblem, that all will be love
| ly and sweet eff it is given into the hands
| NV Pend!eton? Sich is the lessen | ex.
tract from Sergeant Bates.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY, p. NJ,
/ (Which is Postmster.)