The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-09-08

Massey DESCRIBES THE METHOD OF PENSION
ING CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
CoNFEDR1T x ROADS (wich is in the State
of Kentucky, July 49, 1ss0.--The Corners is
in blaze of eggsctement In the Louisville
papers witch wuz received here last week.
there cum an account NV Confedrit soljer
witch ez soon ez be heered nv the nominashen
NV Hancock, and fully bleevin in his eleck-
shun, immejitly filed his petishon for pen
shun.
The Confedrit stated boldly in his applica-
shen that he had never bin Ia the servis Nv
the Yoonited States, but that he had served
four year in the Confedrit army, and bleeved
that he waz entitled to penshun the same ez
tho he had worn the bloc instead NV the gray.
In less than mint there wuz the widest
eggscitement the Corners hez seen sense the
surrender Nv Lee. The citizens gathered
about Bascom's by the hundred, and there
wuz but one opinyun about it.
Eff the crooel war is RELY over,'' said
Capt. McPeker g and the era of good feelin'
is RELY goin' to be inoggerated by the cleo
ton of Hancock, why continyoo these worm
out distinctions EFF we understand the pos
ishun Nv the Dimocrisy, the late unpleasant
ness wuz merely difference of opinyun be-
tween the two secshuns, which led to armies
and SIGH. But ez neither side was conkered,
and as the war meant nothin' at all, all traces
of it shood be immejitly obliterated. Ez men
from the North took up arms the country
is, why men from the South which took up
arms should not be paid penshuns likewise
We both fit for our noshuns, and both was
ekally meritorious. 1t is the dooty NV re-
united country to cement fraternal feelin',
and how kin it be done ez we'll ez by paying
both sides penshuns ?"
The speech wuz received with more APP
plause than any speech hev heered for yeers
and immejitly that every man in the Corner.
wich had served in this Confedrit armies
shood towunst file his claim SO ez to git in
early.
Decking Pogram filed petishun settin'
forth that while he wuz never reglerly enlist
ed in the Confedrit servis, he had contracted
a severe roomitism bushwackin' Fedril pick
it's, doorin Garfield's invashun Nv the sacred
soil, an wuz entitled to penshun on that
skore
All the citizens Nv the Corners, with the
eggscepshun Nv Pollock and Joe Bigler, rush
ed in, and they came SO fast it was impossible
to take their names
To simplify the matter Bascon sejested
that committee be appoinsed to file the
claims, and that this committee shood copy
the tax list and forred all the names onto it,
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 Radikels.
Here my genius shone out.
{" We win not yoose tie tax-list," sed |,
" but rather the poll sheet of the last cleo
shun. All that we permitted to vote in this
precinct may justly claim to be Confedrits,
and we shell git all witch is really entitled tc
considerashun."
The secession wuz adopted, and | am bizzy
at work maxim out their applicashuus.
Two unpleasantnisis okkurred. Sam Pet
tibone cum up to be enrolled for bis penshun,
and showed that he had served in the Tenth
Alabama. wuz putin him down when
Issaker Gavitt interferred.
. Sam, you can't play that onto me-" said
Issaker. g You did enlist in the Tenth Ala
bama, but you desertid. Ez much ez / want
to bring capitle to the Corners, the Yoonitic
States amt agoin' to pay penshuns to a mar
which desertid the confedracy in her houl
NV need"
Sans name was Immediately stricken of
the role. We shell insist, to put us on COM
plete equality with the Fedrels, that the PEN
shuns shell date back to the beginning of thu
war, the interest shell be compounded from
that date to this. Also that each one she
hev the same grants and all the addishnel pa.
that the Fedrels hev reserved. Likewise tina
each Confedrit soljer shell reserve pay for thu
entire time he wuz in the Confedrit service
the same as Fedrel soljers, with an addishne
allowance to make up for the insuffishent ra'
shens be served while in the field.
The effeck upon the Corners is miraculous
8ascom is SO certain nv the elekshun Nv Han
cock and the payment Nv these claims that b
hez opened system Nv credit, and the Corn
ers is getting now all the Ticker it wants.
Win the Dimocrisy Nv the North disap
point us Is this golden era to be made
reality, or viii they permit the eiekshun Q
Garfield and set US back where we wuz
caunot believe it. Kentucky win do its hu
dooty for Hancock.
PETROLEUM v. Massey (Jubilant.)
Toledo Blade.