Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-09

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MR. Massey AT LAST LOSES HIS POST OFFICE,
AND TO ADD TO HIS HUMILIATfoNsAN ABB
CLIFTON ADMINISTRATION APPOINTS .
NEGRO IN HIS PLACE TROUBLE AT THE
CORNERS .
s4af = On FARM, THREE MILES D.
FROM CoNrEDRTT K ROADS, aasfa -
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky1
June 20, 1859.
THE die is castl The guilloteen hez
fallen--I am no longer Postmaster at
Confedrit x Roads, witch is In the State NV
Kentucky The place witch knowd me
wunst will know me no more 2orever--the
paper witch Deekin Pogram takes will, be
handed out by nigger-a niger VIII hey
the openin nv letters addressed to parties
residin hereabouts containin remittances
"a Niger will hey the riflin Nv letters ad
drest to lottry managers and extractin the
sweets therefrom--a niger will be-but
can't dwell upon the disgustin theme no
longer. ,l ~ .,.s ss..s s.... ,siea ys +,
/ he'd bin in Washington two weeks as,
sistin the Caucashens Nv that city to put
their foot upon the heads NV the cussld
niggers who amt content to accept the
situashen and remain ez they alluz hev
bin, inferior beins. To say l he'd succeed
ed, is week expreshen. organized a
raid onto EN- 80 effectooally ez' to drive no
less than thirty NV EN- out of employment, );
twenty seven Nv witch wuz compelled 10
steel their bread, witch give us splendid
opportoonity to show up the material Gus
sidness NV the Afrikin race-wich we I'M
proved. - ~ .fe@-. FL
On my arrival at the Corners, / knew
to-wunst that suthin wuz wrong. had
rid over from Secessionville on Bascom's
mule wich he had sent over fer me and ez
rid up to his door, knowd suthin he'd
happened The bottles behint the bar
wuz draped in black !; the barrels wuz fes-
TONED gloomily (Which is our yoosual
method of expressin grief at public calami-
ties), and the premises generally, wore
funeral aspeck.
"Wat is it ?" gasped /.
1Bascom returned not word, but waved
his hand toward the Post Offs. ,,-..,s. .-
Rushin thither, / .bustid open the door,
and reeled almost agin the wall. a At the
general delivery wuz the GRIMM face NV a
niger and settin in my chair wuz Joe
Bigler with Pollock beside him, smok-
in pipes and laffin over suthin in q moose
paper. go = 4%t -hA@ 80
Big!er caught site of me, and dartin out,
pulled me inside them hitherto sa cred pre-
cinks. s-7a sl7 81
Permit me-" sed he, jeerinly, "to inter
doose 700 to yoor successor, Mr.. Ceezer
Lubby." - f.,st# sr.
"My successorl Wat does this means"
"Show him, Ceezer ?" '@
And the niger, every tooth in his head
shinin, handed me a commishn dooly
made out and signed. I saw it all at a
glance. In imitation of our Secretary
Borie he'd left my biznis in the hands Nv
a depetty, which is now the favorit method
of dom public biznis. 1t arrived the day
after left and Isaker Gavitt, who distrib.
bited the mail, gave it to the cuss. Pol
lock made out the bonds and went onto
en- himself, and in ten days the commits
sion come all regler, whereupon Bigler.
backt the niger and took forcible pos
session Nv the Office. Will, was absent
they he'd he'd percussion ia honor NV the
joyful event, sed perceshn consistin Nv
Pollock, Bigler and the new Postmaster,
who marched through the streets with the
stars and stripes, banners and SIGH. Big
Ter remarkt that the percession wUzn't
large, but it wuz talented, eminently re-
spectacle and extremely rversateel. He
(Bigler) carried the flag and played the
fife; Pollock carried banner with an in
scription onto it "sound the loud timbrel
DER Egypts. DARK sea, and played the, bass
drum; while the niger bore aloft "a ban
ner inscribed where Afric's sunny. foun-s
commission pinned onto 1t, playin in adj
dishen pair Of anshent cymbals. Bigler
remarkt further that the perceshun created
a oh Of q ruin
I shood think it wood. at wuzn't "sed this
percession witch took place when 700 re-
ceived yoor commishn. Then the whites
NV the Corners wuz elated, for they spectid
to git wat 700 owed EN- in doc time, and
the niggers wuz corresponding deprest.
They skunk into by-ways and sideways,
they didn't hold up their heads, and they
busted out ez fast ez. they Good git, At
this percussion thereWuz a change. { The
niggers lined the streets ez we passed,
GRIMM exultinly, and the whites wuz de-
prest CORES pondinly. Its singler that at
the Corners the two races can't feel good
both at the same time"
My arrival havin become known, by,
the time i got back to Bascom's, all my
friends he'd gathered there. There wuznt
dry eye among EN-, and ez thot NV the
joys once tastid,, but now forever fled,
mine moistened likewise. There lwuz a
visible change in their manner toward me-
They regarded me with solisitood, bat l
Good discern that the solisitood wuz not so
much for me ez for themselves. -
/ swat shell do?n askt. "Suthin must
be devised, for can't starve"
"Pay me wat you owe meP ejakelatid
fSASG0m-
"PayS me wat you owe me !" ejakelatid
Deekin Pogram, and the same remark wuz
made by all Nv EN- with wonderful yoonan-
unity. Watever differences wv opinyun
there mite be on other topics, on this they
were all agreed ~ ~ 81 ~
Gentlemen" 1 commenced backing up
into corner, is this generous? Is this
the treatment I hev right to expect Is
this" - e u ttIEIt,4 nj b.
shood hev gone on at length, but jist
at that minnit Pollock, Joe BIgler and the
new Postmaster entered. Room wuz
made for EN- and cheers offered EN-, but
they declined to sit.
81 hev biznisp sed ~this Postmaster !
"disagreeable biznis, but it's my offishel
dooty to perform it."
At the word "offisher' comm from his
lips groaned, witch wuz ekkoed by those,
present.
IL hev in my hand" continy God he ode
bond g1ben by my predecessor, onto witch
is de names Nv Geo. w. Bascom, Elkanah
Pogram, Hugh McPelter and Seth PENN
hacker, ez sureties. In dis oder hand I
hold a skedool oh de property belongin to
DE 'partment witch wuz turned ober to him
by his predecessor. consistin of table,
chairs, boxes, locks. bags, ct settry, wild