Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-20

merely a difference NV opinyun be-
tween the two seckshuns, wich led to
armies and sich. But ez neither side
wuz conkered, and ez the war ment
nothing at all, all traces NV it shood
be immeiitly obliteratid. Ez men from
the North took up arms, the country
pays them penshuns. Now what |
want to know is why men FROM the
South wich took up arms shood not be
paid panshuns likewise We both fit
fur our noshuns, and both wuz ekally
meritorious. 1t is the dooty NV reu-
nited country to cement fraternal feel
in, and how can kin it be done eZ well
ez by paying both sides penshuns?
The speech wuz received with more
applause than any speech hev heerd
feryeers, and immeiitly it wuz resolved
that evry man at the Corners which
he'd served in the Confedrit armies
shood to wunst file his elaine so ez to
git it early.
There wuz rush like that NV a cir
Gus wagon. Every citezen NV the Cor
ners he'd, immeiitly, strong recolleck-
shun NV heyiu bin in the Confedrit SER
Wis, incloodin suthin like fifty witch he'd
sekoored penshuns alreddy for serviss-
es in the Fedrsl army.
Deekin Posram filed a petishen sett
in forth that while he wuz never regler-
ly enlisted in the Confelrit servis he
he'd contracted a severe roomatism
bushwhackin Fedral pickets, doorin
Garfields invashen NV the sacred soil,
and WIZ entitled to penshun on that
skore.
Isaker Gavitt set forth that while he
he'd not sholdered his musket in the
field, he spent six months in Inieany
assisting the Knights NV the Golden
Cirkie in resenting drafts and SIGH, and
in votin the Dimmocratik tikket, witch
wuz NV more servis to the Confederacy
than ez tho he he'd reglerly enlisted.
| put in my claim for three months
servis with the louisiana Pelikins, WITCH
INDUCED in more foot-raceS than any
regiment in the Confederacy, and also
for organizer draft riots in Ohio.
Bascom claimed penshen on the
score Nv keepin his bar open late at
mite for the refreshment Nv Deekin Pog.
| r.lY m on1 81 ,n,.c ho;
bushwhackin.
Mahlon Pettus he'd actilly served
with Forrest, and participated in the
massacre at Fort Piller. 10 prove it
he he'd a thigh bone OF niger soljer,
wich his sister (Which is a artist he'd
carved with appropriate incripshuns.
All the citizens NV the Corners, with
the eggscepshUn NV Pollock and Joe
Bigler, rushed in, and they come 50 fast
that it was impossible to take their
| names.
no simplify the matter, Bascom Sc.
je5ted that committy be appinted to
file the claims, and that this committy
shood copy the taxlist, and forrerd all
the names onto it, ez entitled to pen.
shuLs.
There WIZ a immejit dissent from
this, for there wuz only ten or q dozen
names on the tax list, and they wu2
mostly radikels.
Here my geuius shone out.
eve will not yoose the tax-list," said
|, "but rather the poll-sheet NV the
last eleckshun. All that we permitted
to votein this precinct may justly claim
to be Confedrits, and we shell git al
wich is RELY entitled to considerashun.
This seiestion wuz adopted, and AIN
bizZy at work maxim out heirapplica.
shens.
Two npleasantnisis okkurred. Sam
Pettibone came up to be enrolled for
his penshun, and showed that he had
served in the 10th Alabama. | wuz q
settin him down when Issaker Gavitt
interfered.
Sam, you can't play that onto me, >
said Issaker. "You did enlist in the
10th Alabama, but you deserted. E2
much ez | want to bring capitle to the
Corners, the Yoonited States amt 20
in to pay penshuns to q man wich de-
serted the Confedracy in her hour NV
need.
Sans name wuz immejitly stricken
off the role. There is great deal u,
Spartan virchoo in the Corners.
Another trouble okkulrred with Smith
Peyton. He cum and claimed to be-
put down ez bein entitled to a penshun
"Butyou served in the Fedral army,
OBJECTED Issaker.
'"Troo," sed Smith, "but | DESERTED
and hev voted the Dimekratic tikket
without scratch ever since.
Ills case wuz taken into considera
shun, and it wuz finely desided tina
his name shood be entered. With
these trifiin excepshuns everything wui
harmonious.
find that every citizen NV the Cor
ners, exceptin Pollock and Bigler, WI,
in the Confedrit servis, either ez q &C
tooal soljer, or in some way engaged
in promotin its interests. We shell in
sist, to put us on a complete equality
with the Fedrels, tibet these penshun,
shell date back to the beginnin NV the
war, and intrest shall be compounded