Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-20
PErpEs's TAVERN, HOLMES Co.,
3D. Arn.rat O 1880

PEppEs's TAVERN, HOLMES Co,
August 3, 1863. J
There WIZ a Providence in my BEN
connpeJled to leave Kentucky-a speshe,
and croynin Providence in my comm TO
Ohio shell never doubt Providence
aoin. | thought it hard to be compelled
to leave nv comfortable quarters at the
Corners. and murmured when forced 10
trns1 myself to the cold charities Nv an
unfaelin world at my advanst age, but IL
yuz after all for the best. Ez high ana
exaltid ez is the posishen w KENTUCKY
post Master, the posishen Nv Governor OF
the third State NV the Yoonyun Ii more
exalteder.
The decline Nv Gen. ROsecrans wuz not
onexpected. Indeed, when Senator Thur
man started for California the next day
after to indoose him TO decline l knowed
he wood succeed. Thurman hez a Win
min way with him ez Vallandygum dis
covered two years ago next winter.
Rosvcrans wuznt never the proper man
to lead the Dimocrisy Nv Ohio to victry.
No matter how sound he may be on all
the questions now before the people,
there is an odor attached to his name witch
is a stencil into our nostrils, and the men
witch run our State Convenshun ought to
have knowed it. The troo Dimocratic in
telleck is limited-it don't take in too
many ideas to wunst, nor does 1t shit
with facility. Doorin three years NV the
late onpleasantness we wuZ kept bizzy
trainin the Dimocrisy to hate this name,
with SIGH ez Burnside, ct cetery. We
succeeded About the time Nv the fightin
NV the battles NV Stone River, Iuky, Chic
amauga, and pertikerly about the date Nv
the arrest and exil Nv Our then martered
saint, Vallandygum, the very mention OF
Rosycrans' name wood set any Dimocratt
in Ohio to frothin at the mouth like mad
dog. The Dimocratic antipathy to the
name amt changed. We mite tell EN-
that this same Rosycrans wuz our candi-
date, but the people wood, in moments Nv
forgetfulness, heeve stones at any man
who wood perpose "three. cheers for
Rosycrans" They'd apologize immejitly
when they remembered themselves, but
kin an apology repay fora broken head
Half Nv our orators wood hev bin killed
before the campaign wuz half over Ihere
amt no yoose in tryin to get up enthoosi-
asm under SIGH circumstances.
Now that Rosycrans is out NV the way,
the question is witch Nv our chieftains shall
take his place?
For obvious reasons it wood be sooicidle
to nominate Vallandygum. He can't get
Republican vote, and ther are hosts Nv
Democrats who don't like to have it sed
they voted for him out Nv regard for their
posterity 1t won't do to nominate Cary,
for he's too recent q convert, and besides,
he used to occasionally Letter on temper
ance. Ranney won't anser becoz Ranney
alluZ wears clean shirts; takes bath twict
week, and goes somewhere to church
with his family evry Sunday. He would
doubtless git some Republican votes, but
he'd lose more than enuff NV the Democra-
cy to balance the account. Henry Clay
Dean wood SCOT exactly but he lives in
Iowa. lessee D. Brite would anser, but
he is a citizen NV Kentucky Sammy Cox
hez alluz lived clearly, tho he is suffisient.
ly versiteel to change all that in time, but
unfortunately, he's in Spain, and, besides
he's citizen Nv Moo York.
Who then shell we nominateg
answer without hesitashen, without
any afectashen Wv modesty-ME.
I am just now, the chief among ten
thousand, and the one altogether lovely,
I am the Moses witch is to lead the Demo
Grassy NV Ohio out NV their land NV bond
age into the land flown with milk and
honey.
One advantage in nominatin me wood
be-there amt no danger Nv my declinin.
l never decline nothin.
1t may be urged that l amt known.
That's the very reason why shood be
NOMINATED. What wood Vallandygum
give eli he wuzn't known? We never
succeed with known candidate. We
kin say in counties where they prefer men
whose hands wuZ drenched in goar that
killed my thousands; in counties where
they went for peece, by KILN Provo Mar.
shals and sich-that / wood hev died in
my door yard, eff I'd he'd one, sooner than
hev gone South.
Ny other pints are ez follows:
l kin hold more Nv the Democratic party
strate in the traces than any other man il
the State. wuz originally Democrat
| voted for Jackson and for every Dino
cratic nominee from that date on to the
present. 1t is my proudest boast, witch
wish inscribed onto my tombstone when
heve gone hence--I never scratched 6
tikkit. My war record is cleer. AT the
breakin out NV the war, opposed every
thing the Government did did not stur
the Massachusetts soljers in Baltimore
becoZ WIZ not there, but slung up my
hat when heerd Nv it, and wept bittel
teers becOZ | wuz not there. / did no.
volunteer. On the contrary, when draft
cd, l made the best Nv my way to Canydy
to join Vallandygum, and only failed tc
make my escape thro the treachery Nv 9
Ablishnist who wormed himself into my
confidence by hevin copy of the Noe
York Day Book and pint bottle Nv sod
corn whisky i'll his hind coat pocket.
thought, in my innocence, that one SO
equipped Good not be anything but true
Dimocrat, but found to my sorrow, that
wolves often put on sleeps clothing, SC
PERFECTLY ez to deceive the very elect
Arrested and taken to a camp NV
Linkin hirelings, WIZ clothed in
ojus bloc, muSket was forst into my un.
willin hands, and was transported south.
ward to dip my hands in the goar NV my
friends. Did / do it? No, I deserted
the first mite, and escaped to the Dimocratic
hosts, with whom served till a battle wu7
imminent, when made my way North
agin.
Rooined by this unlawful seizure for the
bars at which / Wunst had credit refoosed
to open accounts with me agin, I devoted
myself to aboosin tyrannicle government
engaged in prosecootin an notwithstanding
war. headed the Holmes county patriot.
who resisted drafts; organized the Knite,
Nv the Golden Cirkle in Ohio and Iniany
and | organized more riots than any on,
man in these two States kin say trooly
that doorin that short time, no less thar
twenty young men framed and dedicated
by me, who hadn't the descreshen to gel
out at the proper time, was incarserated in