Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

| wareases and resolooshens to the mer-
chants of Cincinnati, each delegate pein
empowered by the convenshun to pay MS
own persnal, and SIGH other, expenses eA
he mite contract.
"Gop sed Issaker Gavitt, ego and be
| the horn wich'll batter down the walls Nv
that Ablishen Jericho"
Cor sed all the rest, "and return to
tell us how Their cheeks blanched ez you
red to EN- their doom i''
We went, with the pereeedins Nv the
meetin neatly written. Ez we approached
Cincinnati McPelter's heart so1tened
toward her. Perhaps" sed he, were
too severe. Shell we hold all Nv CINCINNATI
'sponsible tor the ackshen Nv porshen
Nv her citizens? Shell we hold CINCINNATI
'sponsible for the ackshen Nv the state
There are DEMOCRATS in Cincinnati-sh
we crush them with the others? Shel the
innocent suffer with the guilty -
wuz disposed to side with McPelterr,
but Bascom wuz infexible. He wood
never go back an inch. This insult wuz
put upon Kentucky by Ohio, and Clncln-
natl wuz the commershel capltal Nv
Southern Ohio, and the only way to reech
Ohio wuz to crush Cincinnati. The
thunderbolt we he'd in in our pockit must
fall on Cincinnati, no matter who 1t
crushed. Eff the Dimocrats in that city
didn't want to be smashed let EN- git cut.
McPelter yielded with sigh, and we
entered the city, Bascom smilin grim
smile ez he put his foot on its pavements.
"Reel estate will be cheaper here to-
morrow" he remarked, glancin at the
buildins on either side Nv the street
may possibly conclood to invest to some
extent myself. When Kentucky refooses
to trade with Cincinnati its days is num-
berd. Well buy it up and re-popilate it
with Kentuckians."
The next morMin we comNenst our
work.
eve will Begin" sed Bascom, on the
| likker merchants, they bein more intimitly
connected with us. Well crush the ikker
merchants first by refoosing to trade with
EN-, from this time out" And we entered
the first rectifyin establishment we come
to. We didn't go very far into it. The
proprietor advanced to meet us-Bascom
glanced at him-he glanced at Bascom-
| the proprietor turned red, Bascom turned
ez white ez a Sheet, and darted for the
| door, McPelter and followin SCOT with
out KNOWN precisely wat for. Down the
street we rushed, the proprietor close be-
hind us; till finally by dartin down an
alley we elooded him and leaned up agin
wall to breathe.
"Why this foot-race?" I askt nv
Bascom gJ
az owe the cuss bill for hkker bought
the year afore the war;" returned he. 81
didn't motifs his name over the door or l
shoodn't hey gone in"
McPelter whissled long. low, soft
WHSLE, and | coodent avoid thinkin NV
several things connected with our mishun
ez he spoke them words. After breathin
ourselves, we resoomed our raid onto the
merchants. We entered another store, q
boot and shoe concern, witch we purpOsed
to crush by declinin to buy Nv it. McPel-
| ter's eye rested onto the proprietor, and
he glided out Nv the store like startled
fawn. Wv course Bascom and follered,
and the proprietor after us. There wuz
another chase, and more dodgin, witch re-
suited ez before. ~
"Why is this?" l asked Nv McPelter
"When bustid in the boot and shoe
trade two years ago, this villain wuz my
principal creditor. He thought wuz dead,
but ez he's seen me in the flesh I shell
never agin hev any peece"
The next place we essayed wuz a gen.
raj dry goods and noshen house. Jist ez
we pulled the resolooShen from our pockit
to read it the proprietor Nv the store per-
doosed note Nv Elder Gayitt Qssaker's
father, on witch l wuz bail, and we tried
to dust out Nv that place. But by this
time Bascom and McPelter's men he'd
found wher we wuz, with skore or more
Nv others who he'd heerd Nv our bein in
the city thro these, and the thing got SO
! hot that we he'd to run for it, and run We
did. Fearin all sorts Nv legal annoyances
about obtainin goods under false pretences,
ct settery, we didn't stop till we he'd got
| well out Nv the city and the next day we
hailed a boat and sailed for Louisville.
| [ can't say that our visit RESULTED in ac-
complishin wot we desired. We didn't
| git a chance to read our resolooshun at
all, OWN to the coopidity of the mer-
chants who, with grovelin meIcenary
| spirit witch never saw exalted, appeared
to be more anxious to git wot We already
| owed EN- than to listen to resolooshens
| declinin to trade with EN-, or to open new
accounts, and Cincinnati don't know to
| this day the doom witch hung over her.
We sed very little Nv the result Nv our
| trip on our return. McPelter did intimate
that Radicalism he'd reserved stunin
blow from witch it would never recover,
but we declined to go into pertikelers. /
shell never go on SIGH mishun agin. Is
there an openin for me too in Moo York?
I'm weary Nv life here.
Faithfully,
ELIJER PoGRAM.
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