The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-30
Established 1925.

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cofrodin corrodin ! ccrrodin I an,
cath him up by degrees He walk
ed the street listles6ly, his eyea auf
foosed with tears. and his lips NOV
IN ez ef mutterin suthin TO hisseil
become concerned for him, AM
30 did the entire cirkle Bascon
hggered up bis akount at his ba
and went TO the records to Sc,
whether his farm was unencumber
ed. and sich Nv the nabers ez hct
lent him small sumssot about gittir
EN-.
Last Sunday the pitcher vert tc
the well for the last time. | het
four niggers in his pew, upon whom
be looked vacantly but sed nothin
After servis stopped him.-"El
der, SEE |, in a whisper, lit Woo
hev a good cffeck eft you Good kisi
them little niger girls.
"Parson T. sed he. tremblin lfk,
a leaf, "is it absolutely necessary
1T is" SEE | firmly, "a dooty
evry Dimokrat owes to his party
in this crisis, to kiss ea many nIg
ger children ez possible
A strange expression lit up the
old man s coun .enance In ften
zied manDcr he kissed all there
wuz 10 the church, and, ez eff in
sane, commenst on the adult fe
mails Nv that persuasion With
difficulty we restrained him, but
breakin loose from us he startid
down the street a runnin and kis
sin every niger child his eyes
restid on. Finally he sunk to the
crth eggsaustid, aud we bore him
to his house and put him TO bed.
From that bed he never ariz He
WIZ a gouer. We he'd TO give him
his likker in spoon, and never
knowed a Kentuckian TO recover
who wuz past drinkin out Nv u bot.
tie.
Slowly his strength wastid. Yes
terday he raliei and asked for me
ez the candle Nv life Alckered fee.
bly, in the socket.
Perfesser! sed he with an effort,
fs Kentucky to rool the niggers
or the niggers to rool Kentucky
Has the Dimocrsy swaIIered the
Niger or the niger swallered the
Dimocrisy7"
And all wuz DER! lie fell back
a piece Nv clay wich never Good
rally 10 the poles agin.
Bascom and turned aside and
wept. Sed Bascom, "hed he lived
two years more l wood hev he'd his
farm"
"Not any, sed 1 Dustin into
tears. 81 wood hev he'd it to endow
the Institoot."
"ln that event it wood evenchoo
ally hev bin mine," gasped Bas.
com, relapsin into a fresh spasm Nv
grief"
We buried him yesterday. 1t
wu2 the 6iggest funeral ever knowd
at the Corners. 1t wuz a tetchin
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 other
Nv all colors from that Nv
a new saddle up TO dark molasses,
who insisted upon bein counted in
ez mourners. 1t wuz the tightest
place l wuz in in my life.
MY friends sed l to EN-, "is
this seemly2 Is this proper?"
They replied that it wuz. II
mourn father" sed one; mot
much Nv a father, but he wuz the
only one | ever had" 1 mourn
lusband," sed the mother Nv the
irst speaker, mot legally a hu5.
oahd, but morally, or rather immo,
rally" I'VE weep sed all these
various shades in korus, and they
bustid out into a torrent Nv greet
wich completely extinguished them
On the the tother side Nv the
grave, wich he'd the lcgIo rite to
mourn.
Ez matter nv coarse, it ended
n a row. Issaker Gavitt sworc
hat no cussid bleached niggers
hood shed teers at his fathers flu.
leral, and Amandy flew at a quad
Don witch wuz cryin too promi-
lent!y, and Mrs. Gavitt attacked
he quadroon's mother who wuz
lisplayih altogether too much
White pockit hanker-cher. In the |
melee l left, satisfied that Dimoeri.
y hez altogether too many rough |
'ints to git over pleasant.
l felt it my dooty to erect a
Monument to the memory NV this
,ood and true man-this martyr to
)imocrisy. Demokrats feelin an
interest in the matter, and wishin
o contribute to the work, may
end by mail sich donashens ez
hey see fit, 10 me, with perfect
onfdence that they will be 700
ed. Let EN- remember that but
or his dovosben TO the coz he wood
ev bin livin today, Et we can
ot do much for the livin let us
ot forgit the dead.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ
Wich is Postmaster,) and Profes.
or in the Ham and Japheth Free
academy for the development Nv
he intellek Nv all races, irrespect-
70 Nv color.