Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-29

| THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 1Ooo AMI
| 1S69-UNTIMELY DEATH OF COL. LEoNl-
DAs sLAsHER. = AiEl~isfI ttt
v1xBuRe, (Which is in the State nv Mississippi,
| Oct. ~, 1863, {
ONE Nv the most affectin insidents witch
ever come under my motifs, transpired at
the Southern Cross Hotel, in this city,
| Yesterday. I hev wept oshens Nv tears IN
my day, and hev seen all sorts Nv horrible
deaths, but never one witch teched my
heart az the untimely decease Nv Col.
| Leonidas Slasher Nv the interior, wlch
| took place yesterday.
regretted the Kernels death for meny
reasons. / he'd only made his acquaint-
ance five days, Che he'd bin in town that
tirle,) and he'd Consistently only succeeded
in borerin $13 NV him; So at one time and
So at two other times. Hehed money and
wus flush with it; and l he'd confidently,
counted on subsistin on him for at least
four weeks. Troo his death settles wat
borrered NV him, but that's no consulashen,
Ez soon ez he he'd got well acquainted
with me, he'd never thought Nv askin
me for it anyhow. In addishun to. this
greet witch is purely personal to myself,
the Colonel wuz chiyalrous Southerner
Nv the old skool. He wuZn't in the Con
| federit servis hisself, but SIGH wuz his de-
voshen to the coz that he forced into the
| field all the poor whites in his visinity,
and huntid SIGH es woodnt go, out NV the
country with dorgs. He wus troo gen
tleman. He wore ruffled shirts, took the
Nationel Intelligencer and drank his
brandy -and-water without water.
The Kernel knowd that the war wuz
over-that the South he'd bin subjugated,
and reconstructed, but hedn't any idee NV
the changis witch he'd taken place. He
he'd lived on his plantashen out Nv the
reech NV the world all this time. He
sposed that reconstruction meant simply
that eff he shood be elected to Congris, he
wood hev to go to Washington to set in
sted NV Richmond, witch he expected to do
next yeer. f @ 5.fa. Il.
The Kernel and / wuz in the orfs NV
the hotel, when his beamin eye happinin
to rest on the Register, it lighted onto this
name: slsH l-4o.S aaa.
wendell Phillips Boston, Mass
| The Kernel staggered ez tho he he'd bin
| ViXburg! Good Hevensi where is he %
Capt. McVay, witch wuz settin by, pint
ed to a tall, gaunt man, in stoye-pipe hat,
witch wuz settin by the stove readin the
| Moo York Herald, and remarks " that must
| be him
The Kernel gritted his teeth, and an ex-
preston NV intense pleasure rested onto
his countenance. "Capten, git rope.
Major, see eff that lamp post is high enuff
TO string this Yankee up to, and Gineral,
git some Nv the boys together immejitly.
I'll help hang one more Yankee afore l
die, anyhow
And the impetuous Kernel made for the
spoZed Phillips He slant him in the face,
at witch the Yankee riz and f1oored the Ker-
mel, and at it they went, tooth and toe-nail
the wust small fife | ever saw. They
was finally dragged apart by the clerk of
the hotel and the by -standers-the two
wuz arrested by policeman handy by,
and dragged off to magistrates offs,
when upon heerin Nv the caee the Ker-
mel wuz fined $50 and COSTS
"Wat is this?" he asked. "Fine ME
for lickin Yankee WITCH we wuz about to
hang? Why, Squire, do you know who l
am, and who he is %
"Sh! Shi" sed the Kernels friends,
witch he'd just rusht in. "Pay yer fine
it woodent do for us to hev yeo let off
for lickin a Ablishnist The niggers wood
ent like it, and it wood lose us their vote
Pay, and say nothin."
"Wat /" replied the Kernel, turnin pale.
They said nothin, but paid the fine for him
and hurried him away.
The Kernel went to his room in most
fearful state NV mind, mutterin ez he
walked Cant lick an Ablishnist in Vix-
burg! Fine me for lickin Ablishnists to
please set NV id niggers Can't lick an
blishnist-wat-" al
When he got to his room he sat down
and drawd long sigh. Buryin his face
into his hands, he wept half hour, and
then fell faintin from his chair. / picked
the old man up and put him to bed, after
witch / chafed his limbs with whiskey and
put bottle Nv it to his lips and mine. He
showd some signs NV life, and in perhaps
an hour, Good utter words in faint and
feeble way.
"I-can't-hang-a Ab-lishnist any
more Oh /" taalt
And the poor old man relapst. I strug-
gled with him for fifteen minits, when he
again opened his eyes. This time he wuz
calm tho he spoke with an evident effort
Nasty" sed he in a hoarse whisper,
it's time / wuz gone. It's time that the
old stock either died peacfy or committed
sooicide. There amt no more room for
EN-. | never thot ten years ago that the
time wood ever come when | coodnent
uduS d uiSStI VI d AUlioHLio0 III 4hloolS-
sippi but it hez come and I'm comberer
NV the ground. First my niggers is set
free; next, they vote; then Pm fined for
lickin Ablishnist, and finally I'm told
that mustn't hang one Nv EN-. Good
| Lord wat is there left to live fort Here,
take this rope, take these pistols, and this
| bowie knife, and hang EN- up in remem-
brance NV me- die sad and glad. Sad
to think things is ez they is-gladto go ez
| can't better en-"
At this pint I fed him with a little whis-
| key out NV a spoon. 4a
| Hold my hand steddy," sed he, "While
l write a note given 700 these keepsakes
that no one may question yoor rite to en-"
He wrote this time on a leaf Nv his memo
randum book, and maxim moshen ez tho
he wuz tyen knot under some ones ear,
died, His last words wuz. "Spades is
trumps; blacks the winnin SCOT"
l wept tear or two and composed hiz
! limbs Here" thot |, is victim NV
fanatycism. Here is an ornament to hiz
sex, cut down in his old age by a change
Nv customs which he coodent endoor.
Thank Heaven, | am strong enuff to en-
| door it."
! And havin arranged the body decently
| altered his will in witch he beaueathed
me hiz rope, pistol and knife, so ez to in
clude hiz trunks and contents, and takein
his pockit book out Nv his breeches bust
ed into paroxysnl Nv grief in which
wuZ found when the inmates NV the house
arrived
The sons Nv the deceased came tn Wy.