Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-10
CHURCH wv THE Moo DIspENsA-

SHl N, Ocu. 20, Vi.
A piler hoz fallen Last mite, at 10 o.
clock and 67 minits, p. NJ, lssakor Punt,
dekun Nv my church. and the heitiest piler
m tho institushun, in fact the only one who
pade his qwarterige regler, r,departid this life.
Bro. Punt was born Dimokrat-he re
ceived the faith by inheritance, as his father
was one afore him And that faith he kept
He mite hev bin se1oost in2 by and forbid
den paths NV whiggery, and ablshinism,
and SIGH. but knoin the frailty Nv human
nacher he persisteEtly refoozed TO learn 2
reed, and thus made himself sokoor from
the wiles NV unscroopulus politishuns. 1t
wuz butiful tratc in his karikter that he
wood never vote tikkit that he did not git
frum the hands Nv sentral committee man!
Bro Punt commenst his poittikle life a
votin fer Androo JuxI, when he wuz but
Is years old. The rigid moralist may OBJ
gect to this act ez illegle. 1t wuz obgectid
at the time, and the youthful hero wuz
arrestn and impriznd and he wood hev re.
mained in prizn two yeers he'd he not bin
pardoned out by o Dimekratik Guvner, jest
afore the next eekshun. We next find him
battln fer Dimocrisy in the person NV Mar
tin Van Booren. At that elekshun he
votid twice, and drunk liz times. Ez he
repeatedly remarkt 2 me, that day wuz
tryin one. The first hundred drinks wuz
nateral--the balens wuz excess, but he he'd
pledgd his township fer certain magority-
the candidates he'd given him the mummy 9
treet with. and he wuz determined do it
ef it cost him attack NV delirium treemens.
He wuz alluz reddy 2 sacrifice his BOWLS for
the coz.
He manijd to survive Harris ms oekshun,
and wuz active in prokoorin Pokes triumph.
He mourned doorin Filmore's rane, and re-
joist with eckseedin crate joy doorin Peerse
| and Bookannon's.
| In 1860 he didn't vote fer nobody. He
knode Douglis wuz Dmekrat and so wuz
Brekenrij. He ATTENDED meetins NV both
factions and hoorayd Vigorously fer both,
but unforchnitly, the committee who he'd
furnsht him tikkits fer yeers wuz divided,
one haff fer Duglis and tother fer Breck-
inrij. He coodent deslde wich wuz the reel
Dimocratic tikkit, and so on elekshun day
he went 2 the poles, and went thro the mo,
shuns Nv yotin with peese Nv blank paper.
But he he'd no doubts ez to oppssin Lin
kin-he knode he wuz no Dimokrat, for
both Committee men told him SO. o with
what COY he hOerd the nooze NV the frin on
Fort Sumter, with what eckstasy he heerd
Nv Bull Run. No man in the North ex-
hibbitid more ability in swarm at Linkin-
no one Good retail better advantage tho
lies the Sentrel Cemmitty desidid to sero-
lait.
Bro. Punt crowd low speritid at the bat
tie Nv Stone River, and kept failin ez Lin
kiu's dorgs advanst. He britened up little
wen Ferest killed the niggers at Fort Piller,
but Sheridan and the injeany eleckshuns
prostraitid him feerfully, and he becum so
redoost that his likker he'd 2 be fed 2 him
with a spoon.
Bro. Punt wuz consistent member Nv
the Church Nv the Moo Dispensashun. Be.
fore he jined my flock il wuz his boast that
he he'd never bin inside meetin house,
There4 he rejoist at the oppertoonity NV
hearin Ture gospel, in2 wich ef the mig.
ger wuz interdoost at all, he wuz put in and
held up hand cuiit wich is alluz Iefreshin
too the troo Dimekratik mind. He despisd
ablishn preechin.
Bro, Punt's Dimocrisy wuz NV a broad,
comprehensive karcter. He follered the
party. Opposed to Stats rites and seces-
sion under Jaxn, he wuz in faver NV both in
1864. Opposed to slaivry-extension in AS,
he favored it in go and SO on. The inn
mejit coz Nv his doth wuz this tyrannikle
Administrator. Whisky he'd got so high
that he wus forst diloet It, and at his age
he coodent stan it. He died Nv water on
the stumic.
/ wuz with him in his last momence. =
His mind wandered, and he talked Nv goir