Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-08
Nasty.
from the Toledo Blade.l

TO A MISTAKE HE MADE In a ri4NE'
oPERATIoN--A CHAPTER OF EXPERIENCE
IN MISSISSIPPI -
Sept. rs, 1863,
THE fact is amt in Mock Chunk any
more The fate WITCH hez follered me for
thirty years is after me agin l made
tollable thing Nv it out of A. Packer, the
standard barer and expense payer Nv the
Pennsylvany Dimocrisy, so long ez stuck
strictly TO politics | went to his head
quarters each day for week, each time
personatin the chairman NV a diffrent
Dimocratic club, and so resembled in ap-
pearance and style them witch wuz actilly
in them posishns that / got money without
difficulty to be yoosd to carry my ward. ("
Onct got hundred dollars to bring
down ten repeaters from Moo York, and
on other occasions other sums. person
atid ExecootiYe Committee men from
Pittsburg Scranton, Lock Haven, Redin,
Easton, Allentown and SIGH, with dis
tinguished success Last week, feelin that
them caracters wuz too easily asoOmed,
essayed suthin more brilliant Walkin
boldly into Packers Committee room |
announst myself az solissiter for mishun
church in Philadelfy. Never shell | for
get the freezin look that wuz given me.
GA mishen what?" ejackilatid A.
Packers he'd man, givin checks to two
gentlemen Nv Irish descent from Phila-
delphy.
l Explained that it wuz for struggling
church j Wuz solissitin funds. ~
"Sir!" sed he fiercely. "Sir we don't
spect no assistance from SIGH, and hev no
money for SIGH. Show him to the door,
Terence, and see that he don't trouble us
no more"
And Terence really helped me down the
steps with so much alacrity that | actilly
broozed myself 1t served me rite, though;
Unite hev knowd better.
am, Ell the date Nv this epistle shows
in Mississippi, where shell contribbit my
mite to the eleckshen NV Judge Dent to
the Chief Magistracy NV this glorious
State. wrz present last mite at the first
meetin of the -campane, where all the can
didates Nv the Conservative Yoonun party,
'ez the Democracy call themselves IN this
seckshen, addressed the masses The aw-
fence wuz Nv all colors O! Ell saw them
niggers standin there all together, how l
longed to hev EN- in Kentucky, Ohio or
Iniiany, where they can't vote, and where
its safe to bust EN- But they warnt in
Kentucky, Ohio or Injiany; they were in
Mississippi, and they hev votes, and con-
sekently wuz compelled to stand by and
treet EN- ez tho they wuz men. Faugh
Judge Dent made most tellin speech
to EN-. After remarkin that he wuz a
brother-iu-law Nv President Grant Cat
WITCH the niggers cheered, and the Judge
thankt EN- with ez much grace ez poor
johnson yoost to under similar circum-
stances), he went on to ask why his colored
friends coodent hev confidence into him.
He,cood put his hand onto his heart and
|, Love mt mol
man hisself but he he'd lived amongst EN-
all his life, and had bin nussed at the breast
NV a colored woman. Love em! He did
love EN-. There wuz suthin noble about
em-suthin Nv that nacher witch gave him
confidence in humanity. The Judge de-
votid the balance NV the time he he'd to
the most scorchin, witherin, blastin rebook
NV carpit- bagger and carpit- baggery | ever
heerd. When he spoke with contempt
NV Northern men witch come South for
the purpose NV bein nominated for offices,
and NV making speeches in their own be-
half, his blood curdled with indignashen.
Ez he conclooded hollered Rorp
The candidate for Treasurer follored
1t he'd bin reported NV him that he wuz at
antagonism with the colored people of the
South. Wat falsehood! Troo, he hedn't
colored blood in his veins, but
"Three sons of yoors hey! yelled a
disgustin carpet Dagger, witch much dis
concerted him ez the crowd NV niggers all
yelled "Ror" Ass. .-
The candidate for Auditor of State as
serted that he loved the colored man, and
believed that he wuz destined to work out
its final salvation. He Wuz worthy NV
their confidence, for he wuz proud to say
he he'd colored blood in his. veins, and
alluz he'd. He Good take the Ethiopian NV
Afrikin descent to his buzzum and say
brotherW
The other candidates were ekally en-
phatic ez to their affection for Ethiopian.
One asserted that his brother was a mu-
latter, and the other remainin vowed that
shood they be left disconsolt w4dowers
four hundred times each, they would every
time marry colored ladies. aaa
The Chairman interdoost the candidate
for Secretary NV State. Good Heavens !!
he wuz nigger--a full blooded odorous
nigger!. a thick-lipped, woolly headed,
bow-legged niger The niger shook
hands with all the other candidates and
made few remarks, after witch l wuz
lnterdoost to the awjence. Ez all NV en-
he'd expressed their undyin love for the
niger | felt that / must. My
week.-Mrs. is dramatic effect. I'm a material
organizer NV taboo. Sezin that niger by
the hand led him to the front Nv the
stage, and fallin onto his neck, | he'd the
candidates wave two conservative yunyun
flags over u.s. witch by accident happened
to be confedrit flags Judge Dent a pointir
at us with one hand exclaimed: "Democ
rasy and Etheopy are hand to hand, har
to hart, 'Rorl"
1t was tough for me, but endoored it
and the strikin picter wuz cheered vocifer
ously by the black cusses before u.s.
The meetin ended with three harty
cheers for the candidates, witch wuz jinet
in principally by the candidates and me.
Judge Dent shood hev given me SIC
and sent me north immejitly, but he didn't
He gave me so to treet niggers with
Good | waste whisky on niggers even tc
confirm the impression left on Their minds
at the meetin? Never So that eveniu
me and four other ardent DEMOCRATS from
the North took 90 or 50 drinks too much
after we had lreched wat ought to hev ben
our limit, and seem a crowd Nv niggers
passin, our nachrel instinks riz. Ez saw
EN- the whisky in me billed. Forgettin
my affeckshinit demonstration on the
platform that afternoon I marched out
tollered by my new found friends Hangin
to a lamp post | remarkt to EN- that thev
wuz id apes.
"Yoor 'scendid from g'rillers, your 'ferio1
race-'Ror FIR (hic) Dent, and d--n Grant
-yoor not ekal to whites-yoo amt got nc
int'lect, and 700 (hic) s-s-tink. 'Ror