Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-05-17
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in en-, bleevin. In EN-, he held out brave u1
70 the passage Nv the Military Reconstruct
/ shen Bill. .F.
| I then saw a change steel fnsensibly over
my venerable friend His he'd bowed with
| emoshen that wuz stTuggltn for uttrance
/ He wood come over to my offits dve or six
/ times q dayt ana ask me 70 read MIN ghal
/ passage nv the law givin the niger the bal
| lOJ- 4 wood do it when without sayin q
/ word, he wood reel on, with tears doWin
down his wasted cheeks, to BAsCOM's I
/ wood fOller him. to see that no harm came
/ to him. The Old man yVuz 50 broken thaf
] he'd pay for his own liklEer, and mine too,
/ without nOticin. Fearin to awaken un-
/ pleasant emOnshens in his mind, I never
! menshend the latter circumstance.
/ Things grew worse with him. When Mr..
! RANDALL wrote me to consulate the uiggeTs
1aJner IN DemOcfasy Opeyed WlGhouG q
/ murmur. Democracy was his first idea, and
/ he Obeyed her behests, tho tEyuz consoOn1in
/ his very soul. He shooK hands with nlggeTs
/ at my rekest, tho the touch wuz ez red iron
he took two OF EN- into his pew tho his
/ proximity to EN- set him to shalzin like the
/ ager, and he voted to change the name and
/ objects NV the InstitOOt, tho the cOnvulsive
1 WOrlzins NV his face shoWd wat the struggle
4 cost him.
! tered his sole, and it was corrodinl corrodin
corrOdin and eaten him up by degrees. He
walked the streets listlessly, his eyes suffOOs-
| ed with tears, and his lips movin ez if mutt
term suthin to hisself L become concerned
for him, and so did the entire cirkle. BAs-
COM figured up his alEkOunt at his bar and
Z
Wuz unencumbered, and such Nv the neigh
bQrs ez he'd lent him small sums sot about
gitten EN-.
Last sunday the pitcher went to the well
for the last time, J he'd four n1ggers in his
pew, upon whom he looked vacantly but
sed nobhin. After serVis stopped him.
ELDER sez j, in a Whisper sit wood hey
good effeck efyOu Good kiss them little mig
fiParson % sed he, tremblin like a leaf, "is
it absOlOOtIy necessary ?"
cit Is" sed /, firmly, "a dooty evry Dino
lKrat owes to his party In this Crisis 70 kiss
eZ many niger children ez possible"
A strange expression lit up the old mans
cOuntenance. In a frenZied manner he Kis-
sed all there wuz in the church, and ez ef
Insane, Commenst on the adult 1ematlS nv
thaS persuasion. with dltnculty We restrain .5-
ed him, but brealzln loose from us he startld
down the street a runnin down and kissin
every Niger his eyes restid on. Finally he
him to his house and put him to bed. From
that bed he never ar1z. be WuH goner.-
We he'd to give him his lilkker in spoon,
and I never knOWed KentuclEiau to recOV-
en- who wuz past drinlZin out Nv a bottle.
Slowly his strength wasted Yesterday he
life nickered feebly in the socket
t'PerfesseT! sed he with an effort, sis Ken
lucky to rOol the n1ggeFs or the n1ggers 20
rOOl kentucky Has the DImOcrisy swal-
lered the nigger or the Niger swallered the
And ali was o'eri He fell back a piece NV.
clay Wich never Good rally to the poles agtn.
BascOm and turned aside and Wept. Sed
Bascom, ''hed he lived two years more
wood hev he'd his farm "
tNOt anv" sed I Dustin into teers. ST
wood hev he'd il to endOw the InstitOOt."
ain that event it wood evenchoOally hev
bin mine, - gasped BascOm, relapstn into
fresh SpaSm NV grief
We buried him yesterday. 1t wuz the big
gest funerI ever knoWd at the Corners. Il
WuZ a techin site. Standin around his bier,
wuZ his four children by his first wife, and
his six children by his second wife, and
twelve or fifteen children nv all cOlOrs from
that nv neyy-saddle up to dark mOlasses,
who insisted upon being counted in ez
mOurners, It wuz the tightest place wuz
NY friends, ,sed to 'em SIS this seemIy
Tbev frepiied that it wuz. "I mourn a IA
tlleF,'' said one; mot much NV father but
he WuZ the only one ever he'd, 81 mourn
husband" sed the mother NV the first
speaker, mot legally husband, but NOR
ally, or rather, nmorally." 1--WE weep,0
sed all these various shades in kOrus, and
they bustid ont into a torrent NV greef 'wich
completely eXtinguished them on the tother
side NV the grave, Wich he'd the legle rite to
mourn.
Ez matter NV coarse, it ended in a row.
Issaker Cayitt sWoTe that no id bleached
niggers shOOd shed teers at his fathers fu-
neral, and Anlandy flew at a quadroon Wtch
WuZ Cryin too prominently, and Mrs. Cav
lit attacked the quadroon's mother who
Vuz olsplayin altogether TOO much White
pCckiG hankerCher. In the melee left, sat
isfied that the DimOcrisy hez altogether too
many rough pints to git over pleasant.
feel it my doOty to erect a monument to
the memory NV this good and true man
this martyr to DemOcrisy. Democrats feel /
contribute to the holy work. may enclose
sich dOnashens ez they see fit, to me, with
perfect confidence thatthey VIII be yOOsed.
Let 'eTn remember that but for mis- devO-
shen to the coz he wood hev bin Iivin to day.
Eff we cannot do much for the liVin let us
not forgit the dead.
(Which is POstmaster,l and Professor in the
Ham and Japheth Free Academy for the
development NV the intelleK NV all races
irrespective of color