...has turned up at his old post again, and feels much obliged to D––l, alias that Quaker in the south-west corner of the Court House for advertising him. It would be consoling to think we were worth advertising, but we are deprived of that comfort, for, it was all done at our expense, and no reward offered at that, for our safe return.
The writer was mistaken in regard to the cause of our prolonged absence. – The facts are these: As soon as Adjt. Gen. Baker learned that we were from Oceola, he ordered our arrest, saying that three individuals, one a Quaker with a long nose, were lately there from Oceola, who drank all the Lager Beer in the City, which disarranged the whole machinery of the Legislature, and he (the General) was determined not to have the thing repeated. Our protestations that we were strictly temperate availed us nothing; we were put in the “Lock-up.” Every Beer Saloon in the City was double guarded and inspected every thirty minutes by the General in person.
Gov. Stone (as a return for having voted for him) procured our release, and we left the City, pretty well persuaded that we should, in future, notice in whose wake we travel to the Fort.
– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, March 12, 1864
The writer was mistaken in regard to the cause of our prolonged absence. – The facts are these: As soon as Adjt. Gen. Baker learned that we were from Oceola, he ordered our arrest, saying that three individuals, one a Quaker with a long nose, were lately there from Oceola, who drank all the Lager Beer in the City, which disarranged the whole machinery of the Legislature, and he (the General) was determined not to have the thing repeated. Our protestations that we were strictly temperate availed us nothing; we were put in the “Lock-up.” Every Beer Saloon in the City was double guarded and inspected every thirty minutes by the General in person.
Gov. Stone (as a return for having voted for him) procured our release, and we left the City, pretty well persuaded that we should, in future, notice in whose wake we travel to the Fort.
– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, March 12, 1864
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