Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-02
MR MASSEY LOSES A FRIEND. AND 3 WRITES HIS OBITUARY. ....n

f WRITES HIS OBITUARY. mace I.7; sNe' SAINTS REST. (which iz sin) | HE STAIr Uv Moo GERsY. ;, piller hey fallon! Last n;te at ten o'clock ana slxtY-seven minnits P. M., Issaker Punt. a
 decun uv my church, and the heftiest piller in
 tne institushun, in fact the onla wun who pade
 hlz qwarterlge reglar, departed this life. ,,I $ Bro Punt wuz born Dimocrat-he receev- ed the faith by inheritance, ez hz father wuz wun before him and the faith he kept. He I mite hey been seedoost into the forbidden path uv whiggery and aberlishunism, and sich, but Enoen the fralety uv human nacher he persist ently refoosed tew Tern tew read, and thus made himself secoor rum the wiles uv unscrew- perlus polertishuns.. Itiwuz butifull trate in his character that he wood never yoat ticket that he did not git rum the hands uv a cen trel cummitty man; 7i ti,&'"So 4F@i 1f Bro. Punt commenst his political life a votin fer Andru Jaxun, wen he was. but aiteei years old. The riggid moralist. mey. object tew this act ez illegel. It wuz objected tew at the time, and the yuthfu hero wuz arrestld and imprisoned, and he wood. hey renamed in priz- Zen too yeers he'd he not bin pardoned sout by Dimocratlc Guvner, gust afore next elexshun l We next hnd him sbattlin fer Democracy in the purson uv Martin Van Boorin. At that elex- shun he votid twise, and drunk l72 times AS he respectfully remarked tew me, that da wuz tryin 1. The lst hundred drinks wuz nacheral-the balense wuz exsess, but he he'd pleged hiz township fur S carryiu magority-- the candydaits he'd given him the :munny tew treet with, and he wuz determined tew doc it ct 1t cost him a attak uv the dilirum tremins-- lie wuz ailus reddy tew sacri6se his stunnik fer the coz. s.s7,a. iEgA5q.5 2elll5f 45 rs@ He maniged tey survive Harrisuns elex. shun, and wuz aetiy in procurin Poke's- tri- Eumph. He morned durin FiIlmoar's rain, ard rejoict with exseedn grate joy durin Peerse and Bookhanon's s45@3..E Gsss :. In 1860 he didn't vote fer nobudy. He knode Duglis wuz Dimocrat and so wuz Brekinrije. He attendid meetuns uv both fax
 uns and hoorayed viggerusly fer both; but un- forchunaitly the committy who fernisht him tikit fer yeers wuz dividid one half fer Dug lis and tother fer Brekinrije, He coodent decide
 wich wuz the reel Dimocratie tikit, and 80 on elexun da he went tew the poles and went throo the moshen uy voatin wlth peace uv
 blanck papur. .4-.f \. .sre.:e zea ,3Y
 But he he'd no douts ez to oppos:m Linkun.
 lie knode he wuz no Dimocrat, fer both com
 mitty men told him so. o, with wat glory he
 heerd the nooze.uv the Grin on Fourt Stump i ter; and with wat ekstacy he heerd uv Bnl
 Run. No man in the North exhibited moal
 ability in swarein at Linkun-no one cood re.
 tale tew better advantage the lies the Senn
 trai kommitty desided circulate.
 Bro. Punt gr0wed low sperited at the battle uy Stone River, and kept failin 9asl Linkun <
 dorgs adyanst. He frightened up a little when Forrest killed the niggers at Fourt Pill
 Ter, but Sheridan and the Injeana eIexuns pros l traitea him feerfully, and he becum so redoost
 that his Ticker he'd tew be fed 2 him with a spoon. ..-
 ! Bro. Punt wuz constant member uv the | Church uv Moo Dispensashun. Bel he joined 1 my flock it wuz his boast thet he he'd never bin 1 inside uv a meetin house. There4 he rejoist at the opportunity uv hearin pure sermun, in, | tew which eff the niggir wnz >mterdoost at all he wuz held up handcufft, which iz alds re- freshin few the free Dmocratic mind He dispized aberlishn precchin., saa 4s r. Bro. Punts Dimocrisy wuz uv broad com
 prehensive caracter. r., He folered the party, Oppozed tew Stait's rites and seceshun under
 Jaxun, he wuz in faver uy both in 1864. Op
 pozed tew slaivry extenshun in l948. he laver
 cd it in 1860, and so on The immejite COZ uv
 hiz deth wuz this tyrranikle Administrashun Whisky he'd got so hi thet he wuz forst tew di- loot it, and at his aig he coodent stan it. He dide uv water on the stummic. s-
 s wuz with him in his. last nonence Hiz
 mind wandered, and he torked uv goin whair
 he'd finally hev postorfs. The docter; who
 wuz aberlishnist; unfeelinly remarct thet ef thair wuz mails in the countree he wuz goin tew, it wood be necessary tew hey 6re-proof mail bags. Like all uther grate men, he he'd hiz last wurds tho membir uv mi flock shell
 die without hevn last wurds, so long ez can rite.) l rit em yisterdy They wuz, "Hey we carrd Pennsylwany ? my coppers z burnt
 out, put on my toomstun, 'He voatid early and often and newer skratched tikit.' '"
 | Ez winter iz approachin and kneed new soot uv kloas, hey detirmined tew call upon
 the bruthren fer phunds tew erect sootabil monumint tew the memry uv this sterlin Dim. l ocrat. Sums ov ten sents fer this purpussmay be sent tew me with the sssurence thet it will
 be faithfully uzed. " %@ - 4sa PErRoLEUM V. NAsBy, | Pastur uv the Church uv the Moo Dispensa SuFFRAeE.-The right to vote is not nat