Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-05-28
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The Decease Of Elder Gavitt-Mr. Nasty
Announces the Death of his Friend,
and Moulns-A Touching Obituary.
From the Toledo glade.l
Posi- 0FFIs CoNFRDRIF' X ROADS,
(Tich is in the Staff Of kentucky
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May 2 1867.
4 bite nee fallen DER my soul. NV
eyes, albeit unused to tho meltin
nood, hev distilled nothin but teers
for Twelve hours. A piller hez follenl
ln the meetin house there is yacant
pow, and 2 chair at Bascom's is with.
gut q setter. Last mite, at precisely
nine p. H., Abimileck Gavitt depart
ed this life, aged 60 years and some
9dd months.
weep ez / rite. Th Elder wuz
enuft out jest ez the flowers NV spring
wug cumip-iest ez the wether wuz a
gittin warm enuff to go barefooted-
jest when it wuzn't necessary to both
er about gittin frewood or be con-
gerped about feedin the stock-iest
when it begins to be comfortable a
eettln onto the grosery stoop-jest al
the Threshold NV six months enjoy.
ment Why wuz he taken? Exc
arseRa the ways Nv Providence is in
eirootable
Elder Gavitt wuz native of North
Carliny, witch Staff he left in the
blush Nv manhood, jest after he wuz
married. Wat he left Karliny fur |
Revef " ~ sble to assertane precisely,
hEt | hev understood that it wuz
getAln in connecehup with a smoke
house and the hams wich did hang
sherein. He wuz in Wing naber-
tpod--his naber, the proprietor Nv
tie smoEe-house wuz a Whig-thar
Wpz sum halas mist-the rinds wuz
found iq his posseshun-Whig intol-
GRANGE and persecushun. Upon SIGH
slight evidence he wuz found guilty
nv theft, and was ANONYMOUSLY rid
% a rale, and ordered to leve the
country in twentys4 ours, witch he
did, dFiftin naturally to Ken tucky.-
THANK heaven for SIGH outrages But
for SIGH Kentucky would hay ben a
republican sStait, or wood hav re-
manned unsettled to this day
Fldos Gavitt wuz alluz a dimocrat
pv th,a stricteet seek. He voted fur
Jackson, and reglerly fur every dim
9cratic ever sence. He didn't read
gerry muchj indeed, eff | remember
Cite, he coodn't do it at all, and wuz,
fcnsekentle, steadfast in the faith
Tie wqZn't shook about, and driven
bitLer ana yon by every wind, but
remained thrQ life fast into the groov
in WITCH he he'd bin originally sot.-
His politik!e kreed wuz made up NV
fhis Gre idee to wit: Hatrid " Moo
t9bEi.ad. lie hatid Moo England be-
cause MQo England hatid whishaY,
Tich 10 cQodn't git along without,
and slavery, ny witch he ned a hun
ly3d nigg6rs. lie yotid agin Moo
England qll his lifa reglerly, and ez
M4oY times on each e leckshun day ez
re cg9d without risk.
sIY Acquaintance with the decon
pGmmeEst abont three years ago. 1t
WIS sthis house l stopt on my adj
vent into these parts. Their wuz no
need CT foaaal Observation-Disclosures
was elreedy : bond between us wich
pit oAq sp4ls together His eye, ez
i 10 2pto my nose, lighted up with a
FL ',,p. ana eg ! ga2ed on hizzen | felt
,het hg pug indeed man and bro
thdF te took me in-he sheltered
llie--he gage me whereof to eat and
to drink gad to make merry, and
with kiEl J tarried til wuz reglerly
installed ez pastur Nv the Church.
and thereby reglerly provided for.
The cause nv the Elders death wuz
2 broken hqart He wuz ardint
Goniedrit, and manfully bore up un-
der the revcrses NV the war. His
curraSe wuz mistaken doorin the re-
peated success Nv the Fedral armies.
and even when emancpashun depriv-
cd him w his slaves, he still he'd faith
that, exceptionally, 81! wohld be well.
!.We may be heaten now,' wuz his
constant remark, "but the Northern
dimocrisy arc all right, and thro
them well yet konker.p Confdin in
en-, blccvin in en-, he held out brave
up to the passage nv the Military Re-
construction bill,
then saw a change steel insensibly
pvar my venerable friend His head
how'd with supprest grief-his bosum
throbd with the emoshun that wuz
etruglin for Inference. He wood
come over to NY offs five or six times
day, and ask me to reed him that
passij Of the law givin the nigger the
ballot ! wood do It, when without
sayin word, no wood reel off. viii
teors flown down his wasted checks
wood foller him, to see that no harm
came to him The old man wuz SC
broken that he'd pay for his owr
lickker and mine TOO, without mott
Gin. Fearin 10 awaken unplosan
emoshuns in his mind never men.
ehcnd tho latter ciroumstans.
Things grew worse with him.
When AIr Randall wrote me to con
Eiliate the niger ez Wade was a doil
it, the old father in Dmocrisy obey
ed without a mariner. Dimocrisy
wuz his FIRST IDEA, and be obade hel
behests, tho twGa eonsQomin his very
sole. II shook hands with nigeer,
at every reI:est, tho the touch wuz e,
red hot iron-he took of en- into hi:
pew, tho his proximity to EN- set hin
a shakin liee the age9, and ha votet
to change thc name and obiecks ~
the Institoot, tho the eonvulsiv work
ms uv his face showed wat the strug-
gle cost him.
Day by day the elder faded. Tn
iron entered his sole, and it wuz cor