Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-01
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FUGE AND DECIDES UPON NEW YORK AS
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDERIT x ROADS,
witch is in the State NV Kentucky.
December 5, 1868.

liz ClSCkSuuu NV S1IdnG uSN. LEU luOSJ
depressin effeck upon the undersined The
fact is becomin painfully evident that l
cannot very long remain here. Nv course,
Grant will give. the offs wich now hold
to Pollock, and Nv course Joe Bigler will
be his deputy This will end me-; orruther
it hez ended NE. .Bascom last mite per-
hkker onless Good in some way sekoor
him in the matter Nv pay. Sich is life |!
Bascom is rapashus, but my bowels are
more Sc, and wuz compelled to give him
o mail bag for enuff 10 last me two days.
1t don't require much figgerin for me to
ascertain Just how long | kin subsist on
wat government property hev in my
possession. The Two mail bags will buy
enuf whiskey for two days; the locks be-
longin to EN- one day more; the boxes,
spose kin sell for enuff to run on a week !;
and then there is the tables, chairs, stove
and a few other articles witch, I kin dis
pose Nv. To recapiculate -.
mail bags Observation-Disclosures. .. days.
10 boxes with glass fronts ez good ez new, y
hevin never bin yoosed.. ............ 6 y
cnalrs .s................ ........;.-...;...@ -
1 stove with place to heat water for whis- "a
key punch. o
ro+o, sag % a.
There is the stamp with wich dates are
put onto letters, the cancellin stamp,
and oLe or two other pieces Nv govern
ment property, wich may possibly be
made available for one or two more pays
Then there is q possibility bare posi-
bility-that some Nv our people may send
a letter containin a remittance to a gift
money BY mail to some one,at the Corners.
in which case I shell hev supplies for a
longer period But this is a mere straw
to keteh at. Ez our people don't read they
are not apt to send money on the strength
Nv advertisements, and besides they amt
got the money to send. Bascom hez it all.
From this time out my life is pro-
loDged misery I'm like q man in boat
in the rapids Nv Niagary; the plunge over
the falls must come. a]a2 ..5as4
In cleanin out the Government property
I hev in my possession, I am only follerin
Dimocratic precedent. Wat wuz left, let
me ask, when Buchanan's people went out
Nv place? It's my misforchoon and A
j Johnson's crime, that I'm in place where
there is so little to steal a. Johnson hez,
in this yoosed me most vilely.a | hey
labored for him; | hev supported him
and this is the beggarly reward for sacri-
fis SO greatl There are hundreds which
never did the half hev for him, who hev
places wich, ef they hev ordinary skill,
will yield EN- hundreds Nv thousands when
they go out, while hey only enuff Gov
ernment property in my hands to furnish
me sustenance fol less than month
And this is what A johnson wood call
gratitOodi This is the reward Nv vir-
choo
Upon the whole don't know but that
it is ez well that shood leave the Gross
Roads. The fact is community made up
entirely Nv Democrats amt pleasant
place for sich ez me to live into. Ez hev
to live onto the people its ruther thin
pickin where the people hev nothin their
selves. w wat yoose is it to hold offs
wher ther amt nothin to tax? Eff wuz
a Whisky Inspector, or Collector, or As
SCISSOR, mite possibly wrench a tolerable
subsistence from our distillers here, Elder
Pennibacker and Capt McPelter. But A.
Johnson made Elder Pennibacker Whis-1
ky Inspector, Capt McPelter Assessor,
and Bascom, who hez an interest in both
Distilleries, Collector. In conscience Nv
this ingenious arrangement the Internal
Revenoo isn't,diffoosed very much. The
intelligent citizens are averse to labor,
save wat they hev to do to pervide EN-
with rsustenance, and they keep it so hot
for the niggers, who are the only ones
who will work, that they don't acculnu
late any thing. wuz Justis Nv the Peece
here one yeer, but Nv wat avale Wuz it !?
he'd collections enuf put into my hands,
and the defendants wood come up With
the utmost cheerfulness and confess judg
ment, but alars the defendant never he'd
nothin that Good be attached, and the
plaintiff was never good. for the costs.
The Post Offs wuz worth suthin, for
it gave me credit I wuz q Fedral offiser,
and bein one, I inspired the people with
awe. Ez no one takes papers here or re-
seeves, or sends letters, the perkisits amt
large, but then hev posishen,! n
1shel go to Moo York. In Moo York is
q field pekoolyeTlY adapted to me. In
Moo York aldermen and city ofdshels go ez
mourners at the funerals Nv prize lighters !;
in Moo York they elect gentlemen on skool
boards wieh are unable to- write their
names; in Moo York John Morrisey wuz
elected to Congris, and in Moo York little
Sammy Cox got into posishen. In Moo
York Ben Wood is apower, and Fernandy
hez infloOence. Lookin at these things
feel that there is hope for me.
Financially know that it is all right.
In Moo York ther is fifteen millions per
year to be stolen, and the facilities are SO
magnificent ez to make Twin offsthe city
nothin but Injurious idlenis. When | wuz
ther last and saw how easy it wuz I reely
blushed for my sex. '-'' :, s.2''
Politically it coodent be no better. The
Dmocrisy of all the rest Nv the country
kin be fetched, but our Irish fsllow-citi-
zeng Nv Moo York are invulnerabl5. They
are splendid men and most consistent in
their Dimocrisy.a There IS no people in
the world wich so love liberty none wioh
hev sich a determinashen that al men
shel be free-ceptin, Nv course, niggers
and others witch don't agree with them.