Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-15

Inc DScease Of Elder GGvia-HT. Nasty
announces the Death of has Friend and
MourHS-A Touching Obituary.
PosT OFFICE CoNFEDRIr x ROADS,
(which is in the Staff Nv Ky.)
May 2, 1867.
A bite hez fallen DER my soul. Ny
eyes, albeit unused to the meltin mood.
hev distilled nothin but tears for twelve
hours. A Pillor hez fallen! In the meet
in house there is a vacant pew, and a chair
at Bascom's is without a setter. Last mite
at precisely nine P. NJ, Elder ABIMILEcK
GLAyTT departed this life, aged SO years
and some odd months.
1 weep ez 1 write. The Elder wuz
snutft out jest ez the flowers Nv spring wuz
cumin-jest ez the weather wuz q gettin
worm enough TO go barefooted-je; when
1t Wuzn't nessary to bother about getting
IRE wood or to be concerned about feedin
the stock-jest, in fact, when men begin
to enter upon six months Nv enjoyment.-
Why wuz he taken? Exc ansers. The
ways NV Providence is in~skrooktable.
Elder GAvITr wuz q native Nv North
AarIiny, wich State he left in the blush
Nv early manhood, jist after he WIZ mar
RED. Wat he left North Karliny for, I
never wuz able to ascertain percisely, but
L hey understood that it wuz suthiu in
connection with a smoke-house and the
hams witch did hang therein. Ho wuz 10
a Wing n~aberhoOd-his, the proprietor
OF the smoke house wuz q Whig-there
wuz sum hams mist-the rinds wuz found
IN his possession-Whig intolerance and
persekooshen. Upon SIGH site evidence
he wuz adjudged guilty Nv theft, and wuz
ANONYMOUSLY rid on a rale, and ordered
to leave the country in tRenty-four hours,
witch he did, driftin naturally to Kentucky.
Thank Heaven for SIGH outragesl But
for sch, Kentucky wood hev been a Re.
publican State, or wood hev remained I'M
settled to this day.
Eelder GAYITT wuz alluz a Democrat
Nv the ~strictest sect. He voted for JACK
SON, and reglerly for every Democratic
candidate sence. He didn't read very
much; indeed, eff l remember right, he
cooden't do 1t at all, and wuz, CONSISTENTLY,
stedfast in the faith. He wuzn't shook
about, and driven hither and yon by every
wind, but remained thro life fast in the
groove into witch he he'd bin origenelly
sot. His politikle creed wuz made up Nv
this n idee, to-wit: Hatrid nv Moo
England. He hatid Moo England becoz
Moo England hatid whisky, witch he Good
emit git along without, and slavery, w
wich be he'd a hundred niggers. He votid
agin Moo England all his life reglerly,
and ez many times on each elsckshen day
ez he Good, without risk.
My acquaintance with the deceest COM
menst about three years ago. It wuz st
his house 1 stOpt on my advent into these
marta Thar runz m mad NV far-no1 -,
troduckshens-ther wuz already q bond
atween US witch knit our souls together
His eye, ez it lit onto my rose, lighted up
with a smile, and ez I gazed on hizzen l
felt that he WIZ indeed a man and a broth
er. He took me in-he sheltered me-he
gave me whereof to eat and TO drink and
to make merry, and with him 1 tarried
till I wuz reglerly installed ez paster Nv
the Church, and thereby reglerly pervided
for.
The cause Nv the Elders death wuz q
broken heart. He wuz a ardent confed-
rit, and msnfully bore up under the rever-
ses Nv the war. His courage was uhsha-
ken doorin the repeated successes Nv the
Fedral armies, and even WREN emancipa-
ton deprived him Nv his slaveG. he still had
faith that, eYenchooally, all wood be well.
1--WE may be beeten now" wuz his con-
slant remark, 'sbat the Northern Dimoc-
risy are all right. and thro them wei yet
conker!" Confdid in en-, bleevin In EN-,
be held out brave up to the passage Nv the
Military Reconstruction Bill.
I then saw a change steel insensibly
over my venerable friend. HIS head
bowed with supprest grief-his bosom
throbbd with the emoshen that Wuz strug-
Gin for utterance. He wood come over
to my offs five or six times q day, and ask
me TO read him that passage NV the law
givin the niger the ballot. 1 wood do
it, when, without sayin a word, he wood
reel of with tears flown down his wasted
cheeks, 10 Bascom's. l wood foller him,
10 see that no harm came to him. The
old man wuz so broken hearted that he'd
pay for his own likker, and mine too,
without noticin. Fearin to awaken un-
pleasant emoshens in his mind, I never
menshend the latter circumstance.
Things grew worse with him, When
Mr.. Randall wrote me to consulate the
niggers as Wade Hampton wuz a doin it,
the old father in Democrisy obeyed with
out a murmur. Democrisy wuz his first
idea, and he obeyed her behests, tho twuz
COloOOAlAA lis NCEl SOlO- I1c 6uOOh ududo
with niggers at my rekest, tho the touch
w as red hot iron-he took too of EN-
into his pew, tho his proximity to EN- set
him a shakin like the ager, and he votid
to change the name and objects Nv the In
%stitoot, tho the cOnvulsive workins Nv his
face showd wat the Struggle cost him.
Day by day the Elder faded. The iron
entered his sole, and it wuz corrodin! cor
rodlni corrodin! and eatin him up by de-
grees. He walked the streets listlessly,
his eyes suffoosed with teers, and his lips
movin ez eff mutterin suthin to hisself. 1
become concerned for him, and 30 did the
entire cirkle. Bascom fggered up his ak
kount at his bar and went to the records to
see whether his farm wuz unencumbered,
and SIGH NV the neighbors ez he'd lent him
small SUMS sot about gIttin EN-.
Last Sunday the pitcher went to the
we'll for the last time. l he'd four niggers
in his pew, upon whom be looked vacant
ly but sed nothin. Aftrer servis 1 stopped
him. Glider" SEE 1, IN q whisper, sit
wood hev a good efeck eff 700 Good kiss
them little niger girls"
"Parson !" sed he, tremblin like a leaf,
sis it abslootly necessary"
ait Is" SEE 1, firmly, ga ldooty evry
Dimokrat owes to his party, in this crisis,
to kiss ez many niger children ez posi-
ble.".
A strange expression lit up the old mans
countenance. In q frenzied manner he
kissed all there wuz in the church, and, e.
eff insane, commenst on the adult femails
NV hat persuasion. With difficulty we
restrained him, but breakin loose from US
he startid down the street q runnin down
and kissin every niger child his eyes res
It'd on. Finally he sunk to the erth eggs
Rustid, and we bore him to his house and
put him to bed. From that bed he never
ariz. He wuz a goner. We he'd to give
him his hkker in n spoon, and I never
knoWed q Kentuckiaa to recover who wuz
past drinkin out nv a bottle.
Slowly his strength wasted. Yesterday
he rallied and asked for me-. ez the candle
Nv life fickered feebly in the socket.
"Professer I" sed he with an effort, sis
Kentucky to rool the niggers or the mig
gers to rool Kentucky? Has the Dimocri-
sy .swallered the niger or the Niger
swallered the Dimocrisy?"
And all wuz DER, BE fell back q piece