The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-05-24
PosT OfTIs, CoNFEDRIr Y ROADS, )
Wich is in tho Staff NV Kentucky I
MAY 2. 1857.

MAY 2, 1867.
a bite hez fallen o'cr my soul. My
eyes, albeit unused to the meltin mood,
hev distilled nothin but tears for
twelve hours. A Pillar hez fallen!
In the meetin house there is q vacant
pew, and chair at Bascom' is with .
out n setter Last mite Mt precisely
nine p. NJ, Elder Abimileck Gavitt
departed this life, aged GO years and
some odd months. / weep ez write
The Elder wuz snuff out Jest ez tho
flowers NV spring wuz cumn Jest ez
the weather wuz gittin warm enough
to go barefooted- when it wuzn't
nessary to bother about getting fro
wood or be concerned about feedin
the stock Jest, in fact, when men be-
gin to enter upon six months of enjoy
ment Why wuz he taken? Exc an
sers. The ways NV Providence is in
skrootable.
Elder Gavitt wuz q native NV North
Karliny, witch State he left in the
blush of early manhood, list after he
wuz married. Wat he left North Kar-
liny for, wuz never able to assertane ,
percisely, but l hev understood that
1T wuz suthin In connection with
smoke-house and the hams witch did
hang therein. He wuz in Wing ma,
berhood-his naher, the proprietor of
the smoke -house wuz Whig--ther
wuz sum hams mist-the rinds wuz
found in his possession--W Wing intol-
erance and persekooshen. Upon sich
site evidence he wuz adjudged guilty
NV theft, and wuz ANONYMOUSLY rid
on rale, and ordered to leave tho
country in twenty four hours, wich he
did, dnftin naturally to Kentucky
Thank Heaven for SIGH outrages But
for SIGH, Kentucky wood hev bin Re
publican State, or wood hev remained
unsettled to this day.
Elder Gayitt wuz allus Democrat
NV the strictest sect He voted for
Jackson, and reglerly for every Dem
ocratic candidate senco. He didn't
read very much; indeed, eff l remem-
Der right, he cooden't do it ut all, and
wuz, consistently, stedfast in the faith.
He wuzn't shook about, and driven
hither and yon by every wind, but re-
manned thro life fast in the groove in
to wich he he'd bin origenelly sot. His
politikle creed wuz made up NV this
one idee, to-wit; fiatrid NV Moo Eng
land. He hatid Moo England becoz
Moo England hatid whiskcy, witch he
coodent git along without and slav-
cry, Nv wich he he'd hundred Mig
gers. He votid agin Moo England all
htc I.fa .-af,tarlx, and
on each eleckshen day ez he Good,
without risk.
My acquaintance with the deceest
commenst about three years ago. IL
wuz at his house l stopt on my first
advent into these parts. Their wuz 70
need NV formal introduckshens- -ther
WIZ already bond atween us wich
knit our souls together. fits eye, CT
it lit onto my nose, lighted up with
smile, and ez | gazed on hizzen felt
that he wus indeed n man and broth
CT. He took me in--he sheltered me
Tho gave mo whereof to eat and
to drink and to make mer-
ny, and with him tarried till | wuz
reglerly installed ez paster nv tho
Church, and thereby reglerly pervid
ed for
The cause nv the Elders death wuz
n broken heart. He wuz ardent Con-
fedrit, and manfully bore up under tho
reyerses NV the war. His courage wuz
mistaken dooring the repeated sue
cesses NV the Fedral armies and even
when emancipation deprived him NV
his slaves he still he'd faith that, ev-
enchooally, all wood be we'll. eve
may be beeten now wuz bis constant
remark, "but the Northern Dimocra-
sy are all right, and throo them we'll
conker !" Conlidin in EN-, bleeyin in
EN-, he held out brave up to the pas
sage Nv the military reconsideration
/ bill
/ l then saw change steel'insensiblv
over my venerable friend. Ills head
bowed with supprest grief his bo-
som throbbed with the emoshen that
wuz strugglin for uitrance. He wood
come over to my oils five or six time
a day. and ask me to read him that
passage Nv the law giving tho niger,
the ballot / wood do it, when, with
out sayin word, he wood reel OF,
with tears flown down his wasted
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