The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-15

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Ia fgglyq siltf sYsE.E May = 1851
4 A bite hez fallen DER my soul. Ny
eyes, albeit unused to lemeltin mood,
hev distilled nOthin but tears for twelve
hours. AHPiIler hez fallenl In the
meetin house there Is a vacant pew. and
4, a chair At Bascom's Is without a setter.
ELast mite at precisely nine p. NJ, Ell
der ABIMInEcK GAvTTT departed this
life, aged 6S years and some odd
months. - '.sE
/ Il weepCe8 / write. The Elder swuz
Esnutft out jest, ez the flower nv spring
wuz eumiu-jestleZ the weather EWnE a
gittin warm enough to, go bsrefooted-
Hest when 1t wnzn't neSsaFYo to bother
Esabout ,gettin fre or wood, or be con- con-
lSerned about feedln the stock-jest
when It begins to be comfortable a set
tin onto the grocery stoop-jest at the
Threshold nv six months enjoyment.
I Why wuz he taken? Exc ansers. The
j ways nv Providence eisinskrootable
! Elder Gavitt wuz a native nv North
1 Karliny, wich State he left in the blush
NV early manhood, tist after he wuz
\ lmaErted.-Wat he lett North KarlinY.
for, 1 never wuz able 70 ascertans per-
feisely, but / hev understood that it wuz
snthin in connection with a smoke
house and the hams wich did hang
therein, He Wuz in a Wing naberhood,
Ibis naberi the proprietor of the
smoke-house, wuz Whig-there wuE'
some hams mist-the rinds .Wuz found
In his possession-WhiG Intolerance
and perseko GOSHEN. Upon sich sIiteevi-
denCe he wuz adjudged guilty Nv theft,
and wuz ignomin ionsly rid on q rale,s
fand ordered to leave the country in
twenty-tour hours, Wich he did, driftin
naturally to Kentucky. Thank Heaven
for sich outrages! But for sich, Ken
lucky wood rhev bin a Republican
State, or wood hev remained unsettled
to this day. .t4 Z s'-sss lfg ,i'-h - s5'si
1 Elder Gavitt wnz allus a Democrat
Nv the strictest sect. He voted for
Jackson, and leglerly for every Demo-
Every much; indeed, eT remember
right he couldn't do it at all, and Wuz,
consistently, stedfast in the faith.
IiHe wuZn't shook about and driven
I hither and yon by every wind, but re-
kmained through life fast in the groove
into wich he he'd bin origenelly sot.
His politikle creed wuz made up nv
this one tdee, to wit: Hatrid NV Moo
England: He hatid Moo England be-
tcoz Moo England hatid whisky. wich
he couldn't git along without, and sla-
very, NV wiOh he he'd q hundred fniggers.E 4
He voted agin Moo England all his life
Ereglerly, and ez many times on each
eleckshen ez he Good, without talk. I
My acquaintance with the deceest
commenst about three years ago. It
wuz at his house Istopt on my advent
into these parts. Their Wuz no need Of
formal, roduckshens-there wuz al
ready a bond atween US wich knit our
souls together. His eye, ez 1t lit onto
my nose, lighted up with smile, and
e2 Igazedi on hizzen felt thar he WnzI
indeed a man and a brother. He took
me in-he sheltered me-he gave me
whereof to eat and drink and to make
merry, and with him I -tarried till I
wuz reglerly Installed ez pastor NV
the Church and thereby reglarly pervi
Thecause nv the Elders death wuz
broken heart. He wuz a ardent
Confedrit, and manfully bore up under
the reverses Nv the war. His courage
,WuZ tunShaken doorin the repeated
successes nv the Federal armies, and
even when emancipation deprived him
Nv his slaves, he still he'd faith that,
eyenchooallY. all wood be we'll. "We
may be beeten now. Iswuz his constant
remark, "but the3Notthern DImocrisy
conker " Con1dtn mem heleeyTn in
EN-, hstfeld ont brave mp to the passage
nv the Military Reconstruction BilL q
s. L theh saw a change steelr inSensib1y
over VtnygtYenerable Eiend.r His head.
bowed withsupprest grieE-his bosom
throbbed with. the emoshen that wuz
struggiip for uttrance. He wood come
over to my fotficeii iifives or ak }imeS IA
day, and ask me to read him that pas
sage NV the law givin the nigger the
BALLOT, L wood do 1t, when, without
sayina word, he wood reel of, with
tears dowin down his wasted cheeks, TO
Bascoms: I wood foller him, to. See
that no harm came to him. The old
man wuz sosbroken that he'dSpay for
his own likker,s ind mine too, without
EeRrtn to oaWAkensunp pleRsRnt
emoshens in his mind, I never mem
Shened- the latter circumstance.
Things gTewworse With him.. GWhen
Mr.. Randall wrote me to consulate the
niggerS eztWade Hampton WuZ doin
1t, the old father in Democrisy obeyed
without murmur. .Democrisy wuZ
his first idea, and he obeyed her be-
heatsi tho twuZ conso omin. hiss iverysole.l |
He shook hands, with nigge at my re-
kests tho the touch wnZ ez red hot iron
-he took two ofSem lntoy This pew, tho
his proximity to euf set him q shakin
Eliks the ager, and he-Votid to change
the name and objects uygthe Institlot,
tho the cpnvplsiye worktns nv his face
shoWd wat the struggle cost him.
DaySby day the Elder faded. The
iron entered his sole, and itwuz corro-
din corrodin icorrodin and eatin him
! up by degrees. He walked the streets
listlesslY, his eyes suffoosed with tears,
and hls'lips tf10Yin ez, eff mutterin Suth-
In to hisself. I became concerned for
him, and!so did the entire cirkle. Bas-
com figgered up hislakkount at his bar
and went to the records to see whether
his farm wuz unenCutn nbered, and sich
nv the neiHhbors ez he'd lent him small
sums sot about gittin EN-, ~ t.,..5,.,,
&LastSunday the pitcher went to the
\ well for the last tiIne.s 1ghed four nig-I
gers in his pew, upon whom he looked.
| vice stopped him. Slider, seq /,
in whisper, sit wood hey.aIgood eff
ieck If yoo Good kiss them III tie nigger
a'Parsoan, Iis ssed he, .trembiins ike a
leaf, sis it Rbslootly necessary 5gR
atIt ls,n seq + firmly, ga dooty eVrY
Dtmpktat owes to his party, in this
crisis, to kiss ez many nigger children,
ezposSible.H ied ditlos aiil .1odhid - ;. f
fAtstrange. expression lit up the old
| lnat,s countenRnce. In q = frenzfed
manner, he kissed q there, was In the
church sand, ,beH ef insane, tcommenct
| on the adult femailSuV that persuasion.
With difhculty wesrestraIned him. but
breakin loose from us he Started down
| the street runntn down and skisSin
every niger child his eyes rested on.
FinauYIhe sunk 70 the aerflR eggs6lisitd,
and we bore him to his house and put.
him to bed. From that hedb he nis1ee,
RriE, lHswuZ algOnerS ave he'd ogtEe
| him his Heker in a spoon, and l never
knowed a Kentuckian to recover who
4 wuz past drinkin out nv a, bottle.
Slowly his stfengthMasted. Yester-
day he rallied and asked for me, ez
sne Ga Sa1dis sdI nv his lite1 fiekered feebly
'Perfesseri sed he with an effort, sis
Kentucky toTOoi1the nigpers or the
ntggers to rool KantuckVI Has the
IDimoctasy swallersd fke, nfpper,or, the
4 niggef swAlE the iDimocrasv pr IFf'