The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-05-17
N Ash Y.
The Decease OF Elder Gavitt-
Mr. Nasby announces the
Death Of his friend and
MOurns---A Touching 0bifu.

II Mr. NHsDy HuuDuuces ths
Death Of his friend ana
MOurns---A Touching Obifu-
airy.
PosT OFFIs, CoNrEDRiT x RoADs,)
(wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky.)f
May, 2, 1867.
A bite has fallen o'er my soul
My eyes, albeit unused to the meltin
mood, hev distilled nothin but tears
for twelve hours. A pillar hez fall
en- In the meetin house there is o
vacant pew, and char at Bascom 8
Is without a setter. Last mite at pre-
cisely nine z. NJ, Elder Abimileck
Gavitt departed this life, aged 63
years and some odd months.
l weep ez write. The Elder wuz
snuff out jest ez the flowers of spring
wuz cumin-jest ez the wether wuz
a gittcn warm enuif to go baretooted
jest when it wuzn nessary to
bother about getting fire wood or be
concerned about feedin the stock
jest when it begins to be comfort
able q settin onto the grocery stoop
Jest at the Threshold Nv six
months enjoyment Why wuz he Ia.
ken? Exc ansers. The ways NV
Providence is inskrootable.
Elder Gavi't wuz native NV North
Karliny, wich state he left in the
blush NV early manhood, jist after he
wuz married. Wat he left North
karliny for, l never wuz able to as
sertane precisely, but / hev under
stood that it wuz suthin in connec.
ton with a smoke. house and the
hams wich hang therein. He wuz in
a Wing naborhood--his naber, the
proprietor NV the smoke house wuz q
Whig--ther wuz sum hams mist
the rinds wuz found in his posses
sion-Whig intolerance and perse.
kooshen. Upon sich site evidence
he wuz adjudged guilty NV theft, and
wuz ignominiously rid on rale, and
ordered to leave the country in TWEEN.
ty four hours, wich he did, driftin
naturally to Kentucky. Thank IIeav.
EN- for sich outrages But for sich,
Kentucky wood hev bin Republi
settled to this day.
Elder Gavitt wuz alluz Democrat
nv the .strictest sect. lie voted for
jackson, and reglerly for every Dem.
ocratic candidate sence. He didn't
read very much indeed, ef | re
memLer rite, lie cooden't do it at all,
and wuz, consekently, 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 wich he he'd bin origen-
ely sot. His politiltle creed wuz
made up Nv this one idee, to wit: Ha.
trid NV Moo England. He hatid Moo
England becoz Moo England hatid
whiskey, wich he coodn't git along
without, and slavery. NV wich he he'd
hundred niggers. He votid agin
Moo England all his life reglcrly,
and ez many times on each eleck.
shen day ez he Good, without risk.
My acquaintance with the deceest
commenst about three years ago. 1t
wuz at his house ! stopt on my al
vent into these parts. Their wuz no
need NV formal introductions-ther
wuz already bond atween us wich
knit our souls together. His eye, ez
u lit onto my nose, lighted up with
smile, and ez l gazed on hizzen
felt that lie wuz indeed a man and 9
brother. He took me in--he shelter.
ed me-he gave me whereof to ca,
and to drink and to make merry, and
, with him tarried till | wuz reglerly
installed ez pastor Nv the Church
and thereby reglerly pervided for.
The cause NV the Elders death
, wuz broken heart He wuz q ar
, dent Contedrit, and manfully bore VI
, under the reverses NV the war, His
, courage wuz unshaken doorin the re
peated successes NV the Fedral ar
mics, and even when emancipation
deprived him Nv his slaves, he still
, he'd faith that, evenchooally, all
wood be well. "We may be beaten
now, wuz his constant remark, "but
the Northern Dimocrisy are all rite,
and thro ehcm we'll yet conkcr:
Contidin in EN-, bleevin in EN-, he
held out brave up to the passage Nv
: the Military Reconstruckshcn Bill.
| then saw a change steel insensi
bly, over my venerable friend. His
head bowed with supprest grief-his
, bosom throbbed with the emosheu
that wuz strugglin for Inference. -
} He wood come over to my offs five
or six times a day, and ask me tc
read him that passage NV the law
J given the nigger the ballot. wood
do it, when, without sayin a word
he wood reel off, with tears flown
!, down bis wasted cheeks, to Bascom's 8
wood toller him, to see that nc
harm came to him. The old man
wuz so broken that he'd pay for his
own likker, and mine too, without
noticin. Fearin to awake unpleas.
ant emoshens in his mind, | never
|, menshened the latter circumstance.
Things grew worse with him. -
When Mr.. Randall wrote me to con.
siliate the niggers ez Wade Hampton
wuz doin it, the old father Nv De.
mocrisy obeyed without a murmur.
Democrisy wuz his first idea, and he
obeyed her behests, tho twuz con
soomin very sole. He shook hands
with niggers at my rekest, tho the
touch wux ez red hot iron-he took
J two NV em into his pew, tho his pro.
moxity to EN- set him q shakin like
} the ager, and he votid to change the
name and objects NV the Institoot,
tho the convulsive workins NV his
face showd wat the struggle cost
, him.
Day by day The Elder faded. The
iron entered his s0la and II MIN. ol..