The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-08-08

w Whena his hoss died tho nabeIs,
ratherithan hev him move, wood
chip in and raise another. APP
preshiatin the compliment they
pade HIM, he alluz went. ! men
shun the pekooliarities Nv my an
cestor becoz
"The lives Nv all CRATE men remind us
i We may make our lives sublime;
And departIn leave behind us-3' i5ir
Eff our talent runs in that direc-
ton, ez many debts ez be did, /,
Though it does require espeshcl tai
ents. Has I g5a5i % 17
This he'd its inhoocnco upon my
youthful mind. i saw not only a
great deal Nv the country, but
much Nv mankind, and L acquired
that adaptability to circumstances
which has ever distinguished me,
Even to this day. ef | can't git gin
| kin take whisky, without a mur
mur and without repinin.
My politicks hez eyer bin DEM
ocratic, and | may say, without e.
gotism, / hev bin yooseful mem
Der NV that party. voted for
Jackson seven times, and for every
succeedin Democratic candidate,
ez many times ez possible. For
Mike Lellan, l only gotin four
votes. / didn't approve Nv the
nominashen, and wuz not overly
Jealous. Had he bin eleckted, wat
wood it hev availed me? He he'd
enuff dismist army officers follerin
him to hov filed every offs in his
gift, and he'd at that time become
too old to foller pollytixs for the
amoozement it afforded or for the
benefit Nv any cause.
But this is a depression.
My Dimocrasy wuzn't partiker-
ly confirmed, in fact, wuz not
Dimekrat from any speshel princi-
pie, but more becoz those in the
speer in wich | moved wuz, until |
arrived at the age Nv twenty.four
My father wuz intimitly acquaint.
ed with me, and knowd all carak.
teristics ez we'll ez tho he he'd bin
the friend Nv my buzzum. One
day, ez | wuz layin on my back
under a tree, contemplatln the
beauties Nv nacher, my parent sez
he:
"Pete. (Which is short for my
name efy 700 ever marry, marry a
milliner."
"Why2 father Nv mine," replied
/, opcnin my eyes
"Becoz, my son" scd he, "Shell
hev trade wich'll support you,
otherwise yoo'll die NV starvation
when I'm gone."
l thot the idea wuz a good one.
Thro woman cuss camo into the
world, wich cuss wuz labor, and l
wuz determined that ez woman he'd
bin the cause Nv requirin some.
body TO sweat for the bread | eat,
woman shood do that sweatin.
That mite | perposed to milliner
in the village and she rejected my
SCOT. Iotfered myself IN rapid
succeshun to a widder, who wuz a
washerwoman, and to woman who
he'd boys old enutf to work, with
the same result, when, feelin that
suthin wuz necessary to be done
to sekoor pervision for life, l
married nigger washerwoman
wich didn't t feel above me. Wood
700 bleve it? Within q hour
after the ceremony wuz pronounst.
she sold her persnel property, con
sistin Nv wash tub and board and
a assortmentuv soap, and investin
the proceedsi in a red calico dress aud
! a pair Nv ear rings, insisted on my
going to work to support her, and
the township authorities not only
maintained her in her loonacy, but
refused to extend relcef to me, on
the ground that l wuz able bodied
Ez left the niger, | vowed to
devote my life to the work NV got
tin NV en- down to where they
hev to support us. and that vow l
hev relijusly fulfilled. / hey new
er failed by vote and infooence to
reduce EN- TO their normal condi-
tion; l hev never felt good cepting
when they wuz put down q peg
| never wopt save when they wuz
bein elevated. | hev bin bathed in
tears the heft NV the timo for five
years past.
The oflises | hev held bev not
bin many. l he'd signers to pc.
tishun for q post office in Jackson's
time, but l killed my chance by
presehtin it in person. The ole
hero looked at me and remarked
that it wuzn't worth while to throw
post-offices away on sich-that
when he wanted EN- he Good buy
EN- q dollar a dozen. Bookanan
wuz agoin to appoint me, but some
how my antecedents got to his
ears, and he wuz afeard Nv his re-
specktability, and ] never succeed
cd till Johnson returned to his first
love and embraced us.
l he'd bin drafted into the Fedo-
raj army at the beginin Nv the
war, and he'd deserted to the Con-
federacy. Procurin certifllit to
that offcck, | applied for pardon
and a'placs. He didn't like to give
me the offs, but he wanted party
and as his appointments every
where show, ho coodnt be very
pertickeler. l succeeded bore
with me 10 Kentucky a commi-
shun ez Post Master, and am now
livin in tho full enjoyment of that
posishun, and l may say ! am hap
py.
The society is conjenial. Their
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