The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-10


The Matter OF PensionIng Confederai
soldiers,
A CoNFEDRIr X ROADS,
\ witch is in the State Nv Kentucky
4 July 80, 1880. J
The Corners is in blaze Of eggscite
ment. In the Louisville papers witch VIZ
received here last week, there cum an &C
count Nv Coniedrit soljer, witch, ez sool
ez he heerd Nv the nominashen Nv Han
cock, and fully bleeyin in his eleckshun
immejitly filled his petishon for q pen
shun.
The Coniedrit stated boldly in his appli
cashen that he he'd never bin in the serviE
nv the Yoonited States, but that he heo
served four years In the Confedrit army,
and bleeved that he wuz entitled IA pen.
shun the same ez tho he he'd worn the
bloc instid Nv the gray.
In less than mint there wuz the wild.
est eggscitement the Corners hez seen
sense the surrender Nv Lee. The citizens
gathered about Bascom's by the hundred,
and there was but one opiuyun about 1t.
SCI the crooel war Is RELY over" said
Capt. McPelter, .'and the era Of good feel.
in is RELY going to be lnoggerated by the
elecshun OF Hancock, why continyoo
these WORKOUT distinctionsP III we un-
derstand the posishen nv the Dimocrisy,
the late onpleasantness wuZ merely DIFF
ference OF opinyun between the two seek
shuns, which led to armies and SIGH. But
ez neither side was coukered, and ez the
War meant nothing at all, all traces OF 1t
shood be immejtly obliterated. Ez men
from the North took up arms the country
pays them penshuns. Now wat want to
know is why men from the South which
took up arms shood not be paid penshuns
likewise? We both fit for our noshuns,
and both was ekally meritorious. II Is
the dooty Nv reunited country TO cement
fraternal feelin, and how kin 1t be done ez
well ez by payin both sides penshuns2"
The speech wuz reserved with more ap.
plause than any speech l hev heerd for
yeers, and immejitiy it wuz resolved that
every man in the Corners witch he'd
served in the Confedrit armies shood to-
wunst file his clame so ez to git in early.
Deekin Pogram filed petishun settin
forth that while he wuz never reglerly en-
listed in the Confedrit servis, be he'd con.
tractid severe roomatism bushwhackin
Fedrel pikkits, doorin Garfeld's invashen
Nv the sacred soil, and wuz entitled TO a
penshun on that skore.
Issaker Gavitt set forth that while he
had not sholdered his muskit in the field,
he spent six months in Ipjeany assistin
the knights OF the Golden Circle in re.
sistin drafts and SIGH, and in yotin the
Dimocratik tikkit, witch wuz nv more ser.
Wis to the Confederacy than ez tho he he'd
reglerly enlisted.
Mahlon Pettus he'd actily served with
Forrest, and participated in the massacre
at Fort Piller. To prove 1t he he'd the
thighbone OF niger soljer, witch his sis
ter witch is artist had carved with ap-
propriate inseripshuns.
All the citizens Nv the Corners, with
the eggsception ny Pollock and Joe Big
Ter, rushed in, and they come so fast that
it was impossible to take their names.
To simplify the matter Bascom sejested
that committee be appinted to file the
claims, aud that this committee shood
copy the tax list and iorred all the names
onto 1t, ez entitled to penshuns.
There was immejit dissent from this,
for there wuz only ten or dozen names
on the tax.list, and they wuz mostly Radi-
kels.
Here my genius shone out.
ave will not yoose the tax.list," sed ],
"but rather the pollsheet OF the last eleck-
shun. All that we permitted to vote in
this precinct may justly claim to be Con.
fedrits, and we shell git all witch Is really
entitled 10 considerashun."
This sejestlon wug adopti1, and am
bizzy at work maxim out their applica.
shuns,
Two unpleasantsinis okurred. Sam Pet
tibone cum up to be enrolled for his PEN
shun, and showed that he had served in
the Tenth Alabama. wuz putin him
down when lssaker Gavitt interiered.
"Sam, you can't play that onto me"
said Issaker. "You did enlist in the Tenth
Alabama, but you deserted. Ez much ez
l want to bring capitle to the Corners the
Yoonitid States aln't agoin to pay PEN
shuns to q man which desertid the Confed.
raGy in her hour nv need"
Sans name wuE immejitly stricken off
the role. We shell insist, to put US on q
complete equality with the Fedrels, that
these penshuns shell date back 10 the be-
ginnin Nv the War, and intrest shell be
compounded from that date to this. Also
that each one shel hev the same land
grants and all the addishunel pay that the
Fedrels hey received. Likewise, inasmpoh
ez the Confedrit money wuzn't good for
nothin, that each Confedrit soljer shell re.
ceeve pay for the entire time he wug in the
Confedrit service, the same ez Fedrel sol-
iers, with an addishunel allowance to
make up for the insufficient rsshens he
received while in the field.
The etieck upon the Corners Is miracu-
lous. Bsscom Is SO certin nv the eleck-
shun Nv Hancock and the payment Nv
these claims that he hez opened sistem
nv credit, and the Corners Is gittin now all
the likker It wants. Will the Dimocrisy
Nv the North disappint us2 IL this gol-
den ere 10 be made reality, or will they
permit the eleckshHn ny Garfield and set
Us back wher we wuz2 l cannot bleeve
it. Kentucky will do its hull dooty iol
Hancock.
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