The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
Nasty Encounters Il MeSmerist.

DEACON POGRAM is PUT UNDER THE IN
FLUENCE AND SEES \ BRIGHT FUTURE
FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
(Which is in the State NV kentucky, 7
Sept. 20, 1884.
Their come to the Corners Yesterday
q mesmerist which claimed that by
mysterious passis, NV witch he he'd the
material gift, he Good put any person
into a trance, in witch condishn he wood
be enabled to penetrate the dim and
misty future, and foretell wat wuz to
happen. | declined to be experiment.
ed with, for a reason. | don't want to
know anything about the futur, for
teer that it will so resemble the past ez
to make me sick. The past is quite
enuff fur me. My past hez not bin so
cheerful ez to indoose me to look torred
ir'o the fucher, wich L am shoor is to
he nothin' but dismal repetishn.
When think Nv the days hev gone
thirsty, NV the times l hev bin kicked
of NV francs Tor want NV money to pay
fares, NV the skirmishin hev he'd for
food, NV the experiences | hev bin COM
PEELED to resort to fur eileen shirts, even
goin so fur ez to break my sleep by
sittin up till after y at mite that | mite
borrer EN- oil my nabor's line, NV all
the sings and arrers NV outrageous
forenoon that | hev endoored, | don't
want to know wat is to happen to me.
j he'd ruther live in the fairy realms NV
hope, and take things ez they come. |
Kin endoor b rrers singly, but | do not
keer to encounter em when they are
massed in armies.
But, nevertheless. he'd curiosity to
know wat WIZ to happen, espeshly in
politikle way, and so | indoost that
old Saint, Deekin Pogram, to submit
hsself to the Perfessor and take an eX-
curson into the fucher.
The Perfesser made a lot of passes
over the Deekin's venerable he'd and
declared him sufficiently mesemerized
and asked the Deekin to say wat he
saw, witch the Deekin did thus:
81 see," murmured the Deekin, his
eyes fixed on vacancy, "that pure and
gilelis citizen, Cleveland, in the White
House, with that other pure and ire
proachable man Beecher, smilin benin.
emily onto him. | see in Cleveland's
cabinet quite another stile NV men
than them witch hev bin sittin in Presi.
denshl councils for twenty-four years
Their is Jcffson Davis Secretary nv
State, and the other members are al
Confederit soljers witch distinguished
themselves in the CRATE struggle tor the
Southern system.
In ha
Postffis at Moo. Orleens, and Nobel
and Atlanty, and all the other pints il
the South, from the biggest to the small
est, the Radikel Republikins cleeneC
out and their places filled with Confed
rit soldiers. The Government employ
es are not whisslin ez they go gaily tt
their work, 'Ilale Columby' or 9Th,
Star Spangle Banner but the sole-in
spring stranes NV 'The Bonnie Bio,
Flag and Dixie greet my ravishe'
ear.
81 see an eleckshun scene. TIN
Fedrel laws for the preservashun u
the integrity NV the ballot box he
bin repealed, and the gentlemen NV tn
South hev now the power in Their ow
hands. They sit at the poles and the
determine who shell vote and who she
not. There is not niger in site, TO
their day is over.
81 see the laws for the perteckshu
NV niggers is all repealed, and the labo
of the South is got back to suthin lik
wot it shood be. The niger isn't
slave no more, but he Gums en- clost {
it ez is possible. lie isn't permitted
testify in the courts agin white man
he hez no vote, and he is praktilly
wunst more servant unto his breLhre
hallelloogy.
81 see still more gladder site whic
warns the cookies NV my old heart.
see the debt made by the Confedrac
put onto ekality with the debt incur
by the Fedral Government, and bono
ishood kiverin all alike. / see ConfeC
rit soljers penshund jist the same {
Federel soljers, the Confedrit ice th'
it was only contest betwiXt the secl
shuns, ez it were, bein adopted, and OF
side is just eZ much entitled to consiC
erashun ez the other.
81 see the South made rich in cons
quence. The penshuns NV Contedr
sellers hez bin comp )otid with intere
from the close NV the war and they he
bin paid in bonds which bear intrest
four per cent. myself hev proved n
servis in the Confedrit army, and hi
in my pokkit now all my back pay,
81 see all the property destroyed
the South paid for in the same way.
hev myself bin paid for ll3 mules ca
chered by John Morgan when he raj
ed this part nv Kentucky, and s.
myself living in comfort on the intre'
81 see 700, ParsOn, in the Postotfis
the Corners, and me in the Collector
offs. see Lubbock, the niger, vii
hez held the place sence Grants fu
term, hangin to tree in front NV Bf
CONS, and Pollock and Bigler gift
out NV town, pursood by the infoori'
id populis witch is thirstin fur tn
blood. L see Bascom smilin from G