The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-05-23

NdsOy Announces the Death OF h1s
Friend, and mourns-A Touchingl
Obituary.
From the Toledo Blade.
POST OFFICE, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which Is in the Staff NV Kentucky.
May 2, 1-67. }
A bite hez fallen Ger my SOUL
My eyes, albeit unused to the meltin
mood, hev distilled nothin but teers
for twelve hours. A Piller hez follen!
In the mcetin house there there is a
vacant pew, and chair at Bascom's
without setter. Last mite, at pres
cisely nine p. M, Elder Abimileck
|departid this life aged 63 years and
some odd months.
weep ez ! rite. The Elder wuz
snuff out just ez the flowers uvspring
wuz cumin-,jest ez the weather wuz
gittin warm enough to go barefooted
jest when it wuzn't necessary to
bother about gittin firewood or be
considered about feedin the stok-
jest when it begins to be comfortable
a settin onto the grosery stoop-jest
at the threshold Nv six months en-
|joyment. Why wuz he taken? Exc
ansers. The ways NV providence is
inskrootable.
Elder Gavittwuz native NV North
Karliny, which Slate he left in the
blush Nv early manhood, list after he
wuz married. What he left North
Karliny for | never wuz able to as.
. certain precisely, but I hev under.
stood that it wuz suthin in connec-
shlcn with q smoke house and the
hams which did hang therein. He
wuz in Whignaberhood-his naber
the proprietor of the smoke-house
wuz a whig-tbere wus sum hams
mis-the rinds wuz found in his pos
session-Whig intolerance and perse-
kooshen. Upon SIGH site evidence
he wuz adjudged guilty NV theft, and
wuz ignominiously rid on rale, and
ordered to leve the country in 4 ours
which he did, driftin naturally to
kentucky. Thank Heaven for witch
SIGH kentucky wood bina Republican
State, or wuld hev remained unsettled
Of this day.
Elder Gavitt wuz alluz Dimocrat
NV the strictest sect. He voted fol-
4 Jackson, and reglerly for every Dim.
a ocratic candidate sence. He didn't
read very mich indeed eff remem.
Der right, he cooden't du it all, anC
!, wuz, consistently, stcdfast in The
faith. He wuzn't shook about, anc
!, driven hither and yon by every wine
s but remained thro lifea fast in tn,
. groove into which he he'd beeu origi
nelly sot. His politikle creed WI.
y made up NV this one idee to.wit =
q Hatrid Nv Moo England. He haiti,
J. Moo England becoz Moo ENGLAND
, hatid whiskey, which he coodn't 81
along without, and slavery, Nv which
: he he'd a hundred niggers. He voti,
! agin Moo England all his hfe legler
. ", and ez many times on each eleck
= shun day cz he Good without risk.
My acquaintans with the decees
commenst about three years ago. I
wuz at his house [ stopt on my ad
Il vent into these parts. Their wuz n
!. need NV formal introduckshens-t
: wuz already bond aJween us vic
le knit our souls together. His eye, G
le it lit onto my nose, lighted up with
1t smile, and ez | gazed on hizze
| felt that he wuz indeed man an
: a brother. He took me in-he she
Z tered me-he gave me whereof t
le eat and to drink and to make merry
70 and with him I tarried TIL I WI
# reglerly installed ez paster Nv tn
. Church, and thereby reglerly prov
ded for.
The canse NV the Elders deaf
n wuz broken heart He wuz al
,e dent Confedrit, and manfully bore u
"a under the reverses NV the war. hi
: courage wuz mistaken doorin til
J repeated success NV the Fedral armie
N and even when emancipation depr
to we'd him NV his slaves, he still he
n faith that. evenchooally, all would
: well. 1--WE may be beaten now,
7 wuz his constant remark, "but til
n Northern Dimocrisy are all RICH
and thro them we'll yet conker p
d, Confdin in EN-, bleevin in en-, he hel
out brave up to the passage Nv tn
Military Reconstruction bill.
I then saw change steel inscns
), bly, over my venerable friend. II
. head bowed with supprest grief-h
AZ bosum throbd with the cmoshen tn;
&c wuz struglin for utterance. He WOO
to come over to my offs five orsix tim.
.. a day, and ask mo to read him tn:
passi Nv the law givin the niger tt
le ballot. / wood do it, when, withol
n saying word, he wood reel of, wit
teers flown down his wasted cheek
= | wood foller him, TO see that n
:. harm came to him. The old ma
= wuz so broken that he'd pay for h
" own lickker, and mine too, withol
le noticin. Fearin to awaken unplea
err ant emoshens in his mind, [ nevt
/. menshend the latter circumstans.
!, Things grew worse with him.
u When Mr.. Randall wrote me to col
" siliate the niger ez Wade Hampto
ne was doin it, the old father in D
mocrisy cbeyed without a murmu
u Dimocrisy wuz his first idea, and h
" obayed her behests tho twus conso'
% min his very sole. He shook hanc
q, with niggers at my rekest, tho til
I'd touch wuz ez red hot iron-he too
y two Of EN- into his pew, tho his pro,
- unity to EN- set him a shakin like th