Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-05-28

the neighbors ez had lent him small
sums sot about gitten EN-.
Last Sunday the pitcher went to
the well for the lest time. Ihed four
niggers in his pew. he looked
vaca ntly, but sayed nothin. After
servis stopped him. "Elder," SEE
|, in whisper, at wood hev good
effeck on you eff 700 Good kiss them
little niger girls"
"Parson II sed he trenholm like
leaf, " is it absolutely necessary ~
1T is SEE !, firmly, 'a dooty evry
Dimokrat owes to his party, in this
crisis, to kiss ez many niger chill
dren ez possible
A strange expression lit up the old
mans conntenance. In q fianzied
manner he kissed all there wuz in
church, and ez if insane, commenst
on the adult females of that persua-
sion. With d fficulty we restrained
him, but breakin loos from US he
started down the street, ruin down
and kissin every niger child his eys
rested on. Finally he sunk to the
earth egsausted, and from that bed
he never ariz. He wuz in 4 spoon,
and | never noed Kentuckian to
recover that wuz past drinkin out NV
bottle.
Sloly his strength wasted. Yes
terday he rallied and asked for me,
ez the candle OF life fickered feebly
in the socket
"Professer r sed he, with an effort,
lis Kentucky to rule the niggers, or
the niggers to rule Kentucky? Has
the Dimocrisy swaIlered the niger
or the niger swallered the Dimocri-
sly ~
And ali wuz o'erl He fell back a
pease of clay witch never Good rally
at the poles agin,
Bascom and / turned aside and
wept. Sed Bascom {" he'd he lived
two years more ! wood hev he'd his
farm"
"Not emmy" sed | Dustin into teers.
II wood hev he'd it to endow the In~
stit0oshun."
On that event it would evenchoo>
ly hey been mine," gasped Bascom,
relapsin into fresh spasm Nv grief.
We buried him yesterday. 1t wuz
the biggest funeral ever known at the
Corner 1t wuz q techin Site
Standin around his beer wuz his four
children by his first wife, and his six
children by his second wife, and
twelve or fifteen other children Nv
all colors, from that NV q new saddle
up to dark molasses, who insisted
upon bein counted in ez mourners,-
1t wnz the tightest place I wuz in
in my life.
"My frinds,' said I to 'em, lis this
seemly? Is this proper"
They replied that it wuz. III moorn
a father" sed one; s'not much Nv
father, but he wuz the only one
ever he'd" II moorn a husband"
sed the mother NV the first speaker
not legally q husband, but morally,
or rather immorally." ave weep"
sed all these various shades in korus
end they bustid out into torrent Nv
greet Wich completely extingished
them OF the totber side Nv the grave
witch he'd the legel right to mourn.
Ez a matter Nv coarse, it ended in
a row. lssaker Gavitt sWore that no
cussid bleached niggers shood teers
at his fathers funeral, and Amanda
flew at quadroon witch was cryin
too prominently, and Mrs. Gavitt
atakt the qaadroon's mother who
wuz displaying altogether too much
wife pokit hankercher. In the melee
| left, satisfied that Dimocrisy hez
altogether too many ruff pinta to get
over pleasant.
| feel it my dooty TO erect mon
ument to the memory of this good
and tru man-this martir to Dimocri-
So. Dimokrats feelin an interest in
the matter and wishin to contribute
to the work may send by mail SIGH
donashens ez they may see fit, to me,
with perfect confidence that they
will be yoosed. Let EN- remember
that but for his devoshen to the coz
he would hev bin Twin to day. Eff
we cannot do much for the Twin let
us not forgitt the dead.
PETROLEUM v. Massey P. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster) and Professor in the Ham and
Japheth free Academy for tho Development NV the
lntelick NV all races irrespective of color.