The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-06-06
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
The DeceaSe of Elder Gavftf-NEr
Nnsby Announces the Denlh Oi
his Friend and MOurnS-A
Touching Obituary.
PosT-6FFIs, CoSFEDRIT K RoAps, !
(wich Is In the Stait nv Ky..)
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(wich Is In the Stalt nv Ky.)
May2, 1867.
bite hez fallen DER nv soul Nv ewes, olbeI
unused to the meltin mood, thev distilled nothi
but tears for twelve hours A Piller hez fallen
In the meetin house there is vacant pew, and
chair at Bascom's is without SETTER Last nit
nj precisely nine P. NJ, Elder Abimileck Gavit
departed this life, aged SO years aud some od
| months
1 weep ez write. The Elder wuz snuff ou
jest ez the flowers Nv spring wuz cumin-jcst G
the weather wuz gettin warm enough to 90 bare
| iooted-lest when it wuzn't nessary To bottle
about gettin fire wood or be concerned abou
feedin the stock--jest when it begins to be com
Portable setLin onto the grocery stoop-jcSt q
the threshold NV six months enjoyment. VIII
wuz he takeni Exc ansers. Tho ways Nv Prov
idence Is inskrootable
| Elder Gavitt wuz native nv North Karliny
wich State he left in the blush Nv early manhood
! jist after he wuz married. Wat he left Nort
kariiny for, never wuz able to assertane percise
| ly, but hev understood that 1t wuz suthin Il
connection with smoke-house and the ham
wich did hang therein. He wuz in q Whig ma
| berhood-his naber, the proprietor Of the smoke
house wuz a Whig--ther .Wuz sum hams mist
the rinds wuz found in his possession Whig in
| tolerance and persekooshen. Upon sich site ev
idence he wuz adjudged guilty Of theft, and WI
|
twenty-iour hours, wich be did, dlltln naturally t.
| Kentucky. Thank Heaven for sich outruges
| But for sch, Kentucky wood hev bin Republi
can State, or wood hev remained unsettled 10 thi
day.
| Elder Gavitt wuz auz Democrat Nv the strict
est sect. He voted for Jackson, and roglcrly fo
every Democratic candidate sence. He didn'
read very much indeed, ef remember right, ht
coodent do It at all, and wuz, consekently, stead
fast in the filth. He wuzn't shook about, AM
driven hither and Won by every wind but re
mained thro life fast in the groove into wich het
been originally sOt. His politikle creed wui
made up Nv this one idee, to-wit, Hatrd NV Not
! England. He haIid Moo England becuz No,
England hatld whiskey, which he cooden't ri
along without, and slavery, NV wich he had
hundred niggers He votd agn Moo England al
his life reglery, and as many times on each eleck
shen day ez he Good, without risk,
My acquaintance with the deceest conmens
about three years ago. It wuz at his house
stopt on my advent into these parts. Their WI
no need nv formal introduckshens-ther wus al
ready bond 6tween us wich knit our souls to
gctler His eye eZ it lit onto my nose lighted ~
with a SMILE and ez gazed on hizzen felt tha
he wuz indeed man and brother. He took M
in--Le sheltered me-he gave me whereof TO ea
and to drink and to make merry, and with him
tnrrled till wuz reglerly installed ez paster w
the Church. and thereby reglerly pervided for
! The cause nv the Elders death wuz broker
heart. lie wuz ardent Confederit, and manful
| ly bore up under the reverses NV the war Hi
courage Wuz mistaken doorin the repeated sue
ccsses NV the Federal armies, and even whel
emancipation deprived him nv his slaves, he still
| he'd faith that, evenchoOallv, oil wood be well
! We may be beCtcn now" wuz his constant re
mark, but the Northern Dimocrisy are all right
and thrO them well yet conker!' Conhdin il
em, beevn in EN-, he held out brave up to tn
passage Nv the Reconstrukshen Bill .
| then saw q change steel fnsensBy over m,
venerable friend. His head bowed with suppress
| grief-his bosom thrObbed with the emOShen thai
wIlz strugglin for utterance. He wood come owe
to my otls five or six times day, and ask me t
read Him that passage Nv the law givn the nigGe
the ballot. | wood do it, when, without sayin
word, he wood reel Off with tears nown dowl
his wasted cheeks, to Bascoms. | wood folle
him to see that no harm came TO him. The oil
man wuZ SO broken that he id pay for his own lik
ker and mine too, without noticin. Fearin Il
awaiun unpleasant emoshens in his mind neve
menshend the latter circumstance
Things grew worse with him. When Mr.
Randall wrote me to consulate the nggers e.
Wade Hampton was don it, the old father il
Democrisy obeyed without murmur. Democ
risy wuz his first idea, and he obeyed her behests
hands with niggers at my rekest tho the toucl
wuZ ez rcd hot ron-he took two NV eln into hi
pew, tho his proximity to EN- set him o shakil
| like the ager, and he votid to change the nam
and objects Nv the Institoot, tho the cOnvulsiv
workins nv his face showd wat the struggle cos
him.
Day by day the Elder faded. The iron entered
his sole, and it wuz corodin corodin corodin
aud eatin him up by degrees. He walked th
streets listlessly, his eyes sulfoosed with teers
and his lips movin ez ef mutterin suthin to his
self. / become concerned for him, and 80 did thu
entire cirkle. Bascom lggered up his Akhount a
his bar and went TO the records to see whether
his farm was unencumbered, and sich NV tht
neighbors ez he'd lent him small sums sot aboa
gittin EN-.
Last Sunday the pitcher went to the well for th
last time. | he'd four niggers In his pew, upOr
whom he looked vacantly but sed nothin. Afte
scrvls | stopped him. elder" seq /, in whis
per- "t wood hev good etfeck eff yoo Good kis
them little nigger girls.
'PaBon" sed he tremblin like a leaf, ''is
abSlOotly necessary 2"
1T is" SEE |, firmly, "a dooty evry Dinokra
owes to his party, in this crisis, to kiss ez many
nigger children ez possible"
4 strange expression lit up the old mans coun
tenance. In Il lrenZied manner he kissed all Their
wuz in the church. and, ez ef insane, commens
on the adult lemais NV that persuasion. With
difficulty we restrained him, but breakin oJsC
from us he startid down the street runnin and
| kssn every Niger child his eyes restld on. Fl
nally he sunk to the erth eggsaustid, and we bore
him to his house and put him to bed. From thai
bed he never ariz. lie wuz goner. We he'd tc
| give him his likker in spoon, and never know
ed a Kentuckian to recover who wuz past drinkiI
out Nv u bottle.
| Slowly bis strength wasted. Yesterday he raj
ed and asked for me- ez the candle Nv life flick
erred feebly in the socket.
| "Perfesser sed he with an effort, 'is Kentuck.
to rool the nggers or the niggers to rool Ken
lucky Has the DimOcrisy swaered the nigge
or the nigger swallered the Dimocrsyi"
And ali wuz DER He fell back piece Nv clay
| wich never Good rally to the poles agin.
| BascOm and turned aside and wept. Sed' Bas
com, "hed he lived two years more wood he
he'd his larm."
Not any," sed Dustin into teerS. II wooa
hcv he'd IL TO endow the Insttoot."
In that event 1t wood evenchooaEly hev biz
mine" gasped Bascom, relapsn into trest
| spasm nv grlei.
| We buried him yesterday. 1t wuz the bigges
funeral ever knowd at the Corners. II wuz
tetchiu site. Standin around his bier wuz hi
four children by his first wife, and his six chill
dren by his second wife, and twelve or ftteer
other children Nv oil colors from that Nv new
saddle up to dark molasses, who insisted upor
bein counted In ez mourners. 1t wuz the ightes
| place wuz In In my life.
MY friends" Sed to 'em, rs this seemly
Is this proper2"
They replied that Il wuz. II mourn a father,
sed one mot much nv father but he wuz thu
only one / ever he'd" II mourn husband sed
the mother NV the first speaker, mot legally
| husband but morally, or rather immorally.
I'VE weep" sed all these various shades In korus
and they bustid out into torrent NV greet wicl
completely extinguished them on. the tother sldC