Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
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From the Toledo Blade
MR.. Massey AND HIS CONFKRRERs HOLD A
COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT THE COR.
NERs-AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS
THEREOF A REMARKABLE OMISSION
WHICH WAS AFTERwARD REMEDIED.
PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRIT ROADS, 4
(Which is in the State nv Kentucky,)
May 2S, 1869. J
.CoNFEpRTT x ROADS cannot be said to
be. in the Northern sense of the term, q
prosperous town. The fact is its railroad
facilities are not Nv the best, the nearest
one to us bein some twelve miles away,
and its other roads are not so GORGEOUS ez
Good be desired. They are passable for
wagons in Joon, Gully and August; for
mules in April, May, September and Octo-
ber, and the balance Nv the time they mite
possibly be navigated by fiat boats, ef the
citizens he'd anything in pertikeler to leave
the town for, or eff anybody pertikeler de-
sired to come to it. - - q
The citizens, now that they are onct
agin in full akkord with the General Gov
ernment and been thoroughly recon
structid, felt that they he'd borne neglect
NV their interests in silence ez long ez Good
be expected Nv the impetuous Southern
nacher; and also, that the time he'd come
when the leadin cities NV the South shood
make some effort to avail themselves Nv
the material advantage Nv their position,
and wrest from the North the full share
NV the trade Nv the Continent, to witch
they are entitled. We NV the Cross Roads,
felt that we he'd too long accepted second
rate commershel posishen, and we felt
that we Good not endure it longer It
wuz therefore resolved to hold COM
mershel convenshen at the Cross Roads,
to take these matters into consideration,
with sich others as might suggest ther-
selves.
Invitashens wuz sent to all the princi.
pie leaders Nv the Southern masses, and
Nv EN- it wuz confidently expected that
Breckenridge, Lee and Boregard would
be present.
The convenshen assembled on the day
sot. 1t wuz one Nv the largest and most
enthusiastic it hez ever ben my lot to at
tend. There wuz delegates present from
Secessionville, Davistown, Boregard, and
all the towns in that section NV the State,
representa- the intelligence and wealth Nv
the real old Kentucky stock Nv those
localities. "a
Gen. McDingus, late G. s. A., NV Seces-
sionville, wuz made President, with thirty
two Vice Presidents, wich comprised all
the delegates present. This wuz done ez
all Nv em seemed to want to be officers.
Gen. McDingus stated the object Nv the
convenshen to be the divisin NV the means
to increase the commershel importance of
the section, to develop her resources, to
increase her manufakterin interests, and to
show the recooperative power the South
possesses. Kentucky wants manufakters,
Kentucky wants commerce, Kentucky
wants populashen, and to devise means
Nv gittin these is the object Nv our assem-
bin. He begged the members to COM
mence to-wunst.
Kernel Mop Pelter. from the Committee
on Invitashens, wuz about to perceed to
read letters he he'd received from promi-
nent Southerners, when Capt Podgers, Nv
Davistown, begged leave to offer resoloo-
shen. He saw sittin in the convenshen,
with ez much ashoorence ez tho he he'd
rite there, wretch, with whose name he
woodent sully his mouth, who he'd come
from Massychoo- no, he woodent sully
his mouth with the name Nv the State
from ablishn State, and he'd startid in
Davistown factry for maxim pig iron
employin therein thirty.fve men, witch
he'd bot plantashen Nv dstrest planter
and put thereon twenty houses, skool-
house and church! He stigmatized this
man ez a carpet-bagger. He he'd been re-
peetedly warned by the citizens Nv Davis
town to leave, but he he'd lafft at the warn
ins. On threatenin his factry, he he'd
armed his operatives with double-barreled
shot-guns, and with these he'd held the
citizens at bay. This man hez strength
enuff to keep up his factry, but he shel not
sit in convenshen with Southern gentle
men. ~~ftr
Major Bangum remarkt that at Bore
gard they he'd different ways Nv meetin
these difficulties. A carpet-bagger from
Pennsylvany undertook to start store at
Boregard, but we nipt it in the but at the
beginin. We gave him twenty-fOur hours
TO leave and he left. He'd Capt Podgers
cOmmenst In time, afore the evil took root,
it Good hev bin eradicated.
Deekin Pogram statid that an attempt
he'd bin made to plant a cotton factry on
a waterpower at Confedrit X Roads, and
gave in detail the method adoptid to pre-,
vent it, both speeches bein received with
cheers, which showd that the Souther n
heart wuz still ez Southern ez ever.
Capt. Podgers offered the followin reso-
loOshen. y
Resel0ed, That all carpet-baggers be requested
to leave the Hall durin the session nv the con-
venshen.
1t wuz carried with loud applause, after
wich Capt. McPelter read the letters he
he'd received, or rather passed EN- over
to me to read, ez do the most Nv it for
the Corners. f
Jefferson Davis-President Davis, ex-
claimed, ez l kist the letter-regretted
that he Good not be present. His heart
still beat for the Sunny South
I Good git no further with the readin ov
this epistle. The most enthusiastic and
vociferous cheers it hez ever bin my lot to
hear broke from the throng in the buildin,
Capt. McPelter endin with the genooine
Southern chargin yell, at wich the niggers
in the visinity Nv the buildin grew pale
and took to the woods. They'd heard it
afore, and not bein advised that the meet
in wuz purely Commershl Convenshen.
they wuz seriously afr1ghted.
Genral Boregard regretted that he Good
not be present, but
AginI wuz interrupted by cheers wich
made the roof shake, and the members NV
the Convenshen threw up their hats to an
extent witch fairly darkened the air.
Letters wuz attempted to be read from
other noted leaders Nv the South in the
late unpleasantnis with the yandals Nv
the subjugatin States, but at the menshen
Nv each NV their names the cheerin wuz 80
extraordinarily vociferous ez to prevent
anything bein heard. FE 1 Tr
At this pint, while the enthusiasm wuz