Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-23
PEPPERS TAVERN, HOLMES Co., o., !
Inolv 10 1890


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PEPPER 8 TAVERN, HOLMES Co., o.,
Jooly 10, 1859.
LEFT the Corners the day after | lost
INV position and without any speshl pur-
nose wandered up into my old stampm
grounds in Ohio / wuz received with
coriality witch affected me profoundly.
Them WITCH he'd bin turned out NV offises
Good sympathize with me, and them witch
he'd never got EN-, felt it still more deeply,
ez they eggsaggerate the benefits to be de-
rived from offishl posishen and actilly
wonder how a man witch ever held an
offs kin survive decapitashen. .gt -
/ he'd no difficulty in borrowin enun
dollars NV the sturdy yeomanry, Nv TINS
section, to not only keep me at1oat mere
for time, but to pervide agin a passage
through an Ablishn country Ell SIGH need
be. Nv expenses here will be light, ez L
am boardin and drinkin on tick exclu-
sively. told the landlord the first day
to mark it down ez it wuz inconvenient
to make change fifty times per day. He
possibly may wish he he'd taken the
trouble to make change. 1863
The day after the Democratic State
Conyenshen at Columbus we held a in
formal meetin Nv the Democracy at the
tavern, to witch WIZ stayin, the most Nv
the veterans bein there. The sceen re-
minded me Nv Bascom's 80 much that
I actilly. shed teers. Dimocrasy Is
alike everywhere. Their wuz the bar,
with the big bellied bottle with tansy
in it, and the big bellied bottle without
tansv>in it: Their wuz the box NV pipes,
the two lemons witch are doomed never to
be yoosed ez lemon joose weakens likker /;
ther wuz Pepper, the landlord, with his
sleeves rolled up, leanin onto his elbows
onto the bar; behind him portrate nv
Jackson on his fomin steed, wavin his
sword toward the British beside it q
hand-bill for mass Convenshun Nv the
Deestrick last year, commensin with the
trooly orthodox line "no you want to
marry nigger?" in large black type, with
o picter NV Wendell Phillips kissin a
wench, at witch the Dimocrasy have indig-
mated reglerly for ten yeers. Seetid on
bustid cheers, empty nail kegs, and lean
ing on the bar, wuz groop witch was sim.
ply dooplikit Nv the K Roads, and SO
akkerit that caught myself sayin "Dee.
kin" lots NV times. / sed "Captin" to q
man who wuz SO neer like McPelter, ez
to testify the suspicion that the father Nv
the present Hugh he'd many yeers before
bin citizin NV that visinity, but 1 wuz
keerful not to do so agin. Ketchin me by
the throte, he sternly remarkt: "Sir
don't put any NV them titles onto me, sir,
Iswuz no Captin, thank Hevep." He wuz
passified when told him that his remark
able resemblance to a Confedrit Csptin
occasioned the mistake, witch pleased him
so that he towunst askt me to take suth' n.
This opened new field to me, witch
, worked. I diskivered to-wunst an amazin
resemblance between all Nv EN- and distin-
guisht Southern commanders.
While waitin the return NV Squire Petit
bone, WITCH wuz DELEGATE to the State
Convenshn, we fell to talkin Nv the old
times witch tried mems soles, in the earlier
years NV the war. Pepper, the landlord,
gave remeniscence Nv the. shOotin Nv
two returned veterans, in the very room
in witch we sot. The spot on witch they
they fell, he he'd put the stove over that it
mite be kept sakred. MIR. Bortle, an old
saint, whose nose wuz lightin his path
way to the toon, he'd more tragicle tale
to tell. He wuz one Nv them witch
sholdered his fowlin peece to resist the
draft up in this county, and wuz taken by
bloo-coated hirelins and carried off to Camp
Chsse where he wuz kept doo,a CO vile
for weeks with nothin watever to live
onto but the yoosual rashens Nv a soljer
One old relic Nv the war, witch his name it
wuz Babbitt, accompanied Vallandygum
through the lines, witch lines wuZ COM
mandid by Rosecrans He wuz present
when that accursed villain-that tool NV
the ,despotic ape Linkin-hed the impu-
dense to aboose our martyred Saint, and
his blood billed ez he heered it. At this
o,xnk 4han ~
letter Nv Rosecrans to the Legislature NV
Ohio wuz dooly read, and the audashus
sentiment therein contained wuz dooly
circulated, we got more and more en-
thooi,astic on this pint, and our blood
warmed and throbbed more Vicinity
through our veins ez we toasted ValIan-
dygum and forever and ever cursed the
wretched hirelins who opprest him, and
through him, us.
Finally we heerd the rumblin Nv wheels
over the hill and we knowd that it wuz
Square Pettibone comm from the sta
shun with the news Nv the convenshun
He drove up and we rushed out to greet
him.
"'Ror for-who shell we 'ror for ?" ex-
claimed Pepper.
For Ranney, Nv course /" shouted
one.
"For Vallandygum :" sed another.
For Careyi" sed another.
My friends!" shouted Pettibone, My
friends, 'ror for-Rosecrans and victory |"
"Wat?" remarkt dozen Nv us.
"Who?" remarkt the others.
"Helll |" remarkt the balance.
"Yoor triflin with us!" remarkt Pep
"None Nv yoor jokes!" ejackilated
Bortle.
And the astonisht Pettibone wuz in
danger NV bein roughly handled. But he
finally convinst them that Rosecrans wuz
RELY and trooly the Dimocratic nominee,
and that it wuz no joke watever.
| he'd great deel NV trooble with EN-.
They wuz bound not to touch Rosecrans,
and they swore they he'd bin betrayed and
sold out The platform, however, saved
us. When / read it to EN- and explained
how cleerly it condemned the war by re-
foosin to pay the Indebtedness injured
in prosekootin it, and how Indignantly it
spurned the administrator and so on,
they became cool.
Eff Rosecrans hez RELY come to US"
l sed, let us open our arms and take him
in." They retired not pleased, but in
SIGH state that hev no doubt the heft
Nv EN- will vote, ez yoosual, an unscratched
tickit. They took down Mcclellan :; why
not Rosecrans?
That mite, after I retired to my virchus
couch, | fell unto a troubled sleep, and
dreemed. The dreem witch afflicted me
wuz more instructive than entertainin.
Matha ut the n; ocrisv nv Ohio vruz in