Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-02-18
Mr.. Nasty Loses q Friend, and Writes his
Obituary.
SAINTS Resi-, (wich il in) !
THE STAIT Nv New GERsY.

THE STAT Nv New GERsY. (
A piIler hev fallen Last mite at ten
O'clock and sixty -seven minits, P. NJ, Issaker
Punt, decun Nv my church, and the heftiest
piIler in the insttushun, in fact the onla wun
who pade his qwarterige regular, departed
this life.
Bro. Punt wuz born a Dimocrat-he re-
ceeved the faith by inheritance, ez his father
wuz wun before him-and the faith he kept
~-t He mite hev ben sedOost into the forbidden
path NV whiggery and aberlishunism, and
sich but knoen the fralety Nv human naeher
he persistently refOOsed tew leTn tew read,
and thus made himself secoor frum the wes
Nv unscrewperlus polertishuns. 1t wuz bu-
tiful trate in his character that he wood new.
er voat ticket that he did not git frum the
hands Nv a centred cummittee man.
Bro. Punt eommenst his political life a
yotin for Andru Jaxun, wen he was but eiteen
year old. The riggd moralist may object
tew this act illegeL 1t wuz objected tew
at the time, and the yuthful hero wuz arrest
id and imprizzened, and he wood hev remain
ed in prizzen too yeers he'd he not bin par
doned out BY Dmocratie Gunner, gust be-
fore next elexshun. We next find him battlin
Z fer DimOcrasy in the pursOn NV Martin Van
- Boorin. At that eexshun he vOtid tWise and
2 .asa drunk 172 times. As he respectfully remarked
tew me, that da a tryin 1. The LIST hum
= dPed drinks nacheral-the balense
-. exsess, but he he'd pledged hiz township
for a earryin magority-the candydaits he'd
given him the mummy tew treet with, and he
wuz determined tew doc it eff it cost him an
attak the dilirum tremins. He wuZ alus
reddy tew sacrihse his stummik fer the coz
He maniged tew survive HarrsOn's elex-
shun and wuz active in prOcurin POke's tri-
Z umph. He mOrned durin Fillmoar's rain, and
rejoiet with exceedin CRATE JOY durin Peerse
and Bookhanon's.
h-Is6O he didn't vote fer nobudy. He
ku6A Duglis wuz DimOcrat and so wuz
BreHnEie. He ATTENDED meetuns both
faxtns, and hoorayed Vigorously fer both;
but UNFORTUNATELY the cOmmitty who fernisht
.st-s 1s-id haA
Duglis and totheE fer Breknrie. He Good
ent decide wieh wuz the reel Dimocratic TIKI
it. and so on elexun da he went tew the poles
and went thrOO the mOshen Nv Voatin with
peeee nv blanck papur.
But he he'd no dOuts az to OppOsin Linkun.
He knOde he wuz no DimOcrat, fer both COM
nifty men told him so. o, with wat glory
he heerd the noOze the firm FOurt
Sumpter; and with wat ekstacy he heerd Nv
Bull Run. No in the North exhibited
mOar ability in swarein at Lnkun-no one
Good retale tew better advantage the lies the
Senntral Kommitty desided sircuate.
Bro. Punt growed low sperited after the bat
~ tie Nv Stunn River, and kept failin as Lin
kun's dOrgs adTanst. He frightened up
49, little when Forrest killed the niggers at Fourt
-- Piller, but Sheridan and the Injeana eexuns
Frustrated him feerfully, and he BEGUN so
redOost that his Ticker he'd tew be fed him
with a spune.
4e Bro. Punt wuz a constant member Nv the
Church NV Moo Dispensashun. Be4 he joined
~ nv flock IL wuZ his boast thet he he'd never
bin inside NV a meetin House. There4
he rejoist 1T the opportunity Nv hearin pure
4 = ~sermun, intew which eff the niggir intro
doost at all he held up hsndcuft,
which is allus refreshin tew the free Dino
- cratic mind. He dspized aberlishin preachin.
Bro. Punt's Dimocrisy wuz of a broad COM
IL prehensive csracter. He folIered the party.
-0ppozed tew Stats rites and seeeshun under
Jaxm he wuz in favor OF both in 1864. OPP.
pOzed tew slavery extension in. 1919, ne IA
g vOred il in 1860, and so on. The immeiite
= coz NV his deth this tyrraniRle Admins
tIashun. Whisky he'd got so hi tibet he wuz
forst tew diOot 1t, and at his ag he coodent
b-- stan il. He dide water the stummic
.iAs I wuz with him in his last monacnce Hiz
4 mind wandered, and he torked of goin whair
he'd finally hev pOstorfs. The docter who
- wuz a aberlishinist, unfeelinly remdrct tibet
: eff THAR mails in the countree he wuz
gOin teE, it wood be necessary tew hev fire.
proof mail bags. Like all uther CRATE men,
s he he'd his last wurds (nO member Nv m flock
shell die without heyin last wurds, so / mg ez
,i,. L can ritel-I rit EN- yisterdy. They wuz,
.-s-g s'HeE we carrid Pennsylwany f-my coppers
is burnt Output on my toomstun, He voatid
..-szsE cary and cfIin and newer skratched
49, tikit2pf
Ezswinter il approachin and kneed a new
SCOT of koas, hev determined tew cal up
on the bruthren fer phunds tew erect SCOTIA
bill monumint tew the memry Nv this sterlin
z q Dimocrat Sums NV ten sents fer this pur-
80 - pus may be sent tew me with the assurance
20 thet it viii be faithfully used. rrae
= 20 t. PETROLEUM Y, Massey
Paytur Nv the Church NV the Moo DISPENSE
= nas sE@E 60 y FE-a p EsH s.sr 70 r -