Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-02-11
Nasty.
| From the Toledo Blade
The Decease of Elder Pennibacker
Parson INDUCES in Appropriate Re-
Annfinue
Posr 0FFIs, CoxtEDRIr X ROADS,
(Which Is ia the StsiG NV KcntuekyJ

onmoved, the blasts Nv time, totter
and fall We view their PROSTATE
forms u second, metblnks, they sink
into hearth and are lost 20 site tho
to memory dear. forever, Then
around the old stumps the young
sprouts grow up more vigorous
than ever.
amt singin these moral refcc-
shuns for noihin never waste the
palhctics. Whenever man is pull
ed drownded from the creek in this
vicinity, which happens frekently.
there bein three distlleries onto il,
never weep ontil | see whether he
belongs to my congregashun. II re-
qares TOO much nv an effort to weep,
To do it on all okkashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker, to-
wunst the strength and ornament ny
the meetin house NV which | hey bin
for two yeers pastor, departed this
life at 2 p. m. this afternoon. For
him | weep, for him the teers is flow
in over the paper onto witch these
lines is penned. ! am writin EN- in
the presence NV the wifi. and children
NV the deceest, and it does EN- good
to see me effected. When wan can
confer satistacshun at so little trouble
ez to carry a onion in his pocket
handkerchief, he wood be broot in,
deed eff he did not prove himself excl
to the okkashun.
Elder Pennibacker wuz born in the
earnest part Nv Pennsylvary, u real
old Democratic stock. He wuz born
amid the scenes Nv the war NV indie
pendence, and he crowd up with Rev.
olooshenery memres inspirin him
His father fought in the Revolooshen,
havin come all the way across the
Atlantic to do it, He wuz Hessian,
and therefore wuznt penshuned by
the Amerikin government. But at
the Fourth of Jooly celebrashuns,
the old man wuz invited to sit on the
stand, the yeomanry Nv that secshnn
not knowing that it made emmy DIFF
ference ez TO the side he took in the
struggle.
Young Absalum crowd up amid
existent inhooences. There wuznt no
skools in the vicinity in his infancy,
and Jest ez he mite hey bin contam'n
ated by EN-, his father moved to Ken
lucky, where be wuz safe from all
sich The old gentleman dyin, Alb
sum inherited the paternal akers and
paternal nlggers, and became man
among men The genius nv the man
now began to develop. Unbranded
by the narrer views NV his paterral
ancestor, he boldly launched out for
himself. He early distinguished
himself by his inven i've genius, witch
took the real Kentucky shoot. Twa-
him wich conceived the idea nv brad
IN small wire into the lashes nv mig
ger whips; and not satisfied with that,
he after Il months hard study.
brought ont the Improvement il the
niger paddle Nv BORN holes into it,
Ii bed a desprit struggle to cit it
adopted The blind planters uy the
neighborhood he'll fathe in the old
paddle, plain, and The elder was fotst
to demonstrate, By actooaI expert
ment on bis niggres, its sooperioliiy
He killed two in doing il, but be tri
umphed. It wuz found that more
chastisement Good be Inflicted with
1t in a given time, than by the old
method, and that it lasted longer,
need not say wat his politics WIZ
He " az never nothin but a De locrat
He commenst his career by votin
three times for Jackson, and the cans
dldate witch folorcd 10 succession he'd
no cause to complain Of his zeol.-
Under Bookanan his faithtulnis wuz
rewarded The post offs wich now
holi Huz given him, and he dischar 5ed
the dooties faithfully and to The best
Of his ability EZ he couldn't read
he put wat letters witch arrived out
into a box outside, lettin every one
who come take one eff they wantid
to. The paper wich came to the Of
ifs for Deekin Pogram he learned to
distribute in two weeks. The out
goin mail he dumped into Louis
vile bag, feeling great load wuz off
his mind when it departid He held
the offs till they wantid him to make
out quarterly report. He wuz
nonpuised He either he'd to buy
nigger who coad reed and write, or
resign. A half-starved Yapkee wuz
appointid in his stead, who raigned
till | relieved him.
The Elder wuz the happy possessor
NV three hundred niggers They wuz
probably the best lot of niggers, ez
they run, in North western Ken~
lucky. He he'd three shades Nv color
The trader Good find anything in be
hide ny niger, up to these three, that
he wantid, on his plantashen, Tier
wuz the pure congo, the agil mulatto,
and the comely quodroon. Their wuz
no higher mix than the Quadroon, for
il will be remembered the family
hedn't bin slave owners but three
generashens They he'd accomplish,
cd a great deal. however, for the
time they he'd EN-.
The Elder he'd bin in failin health
ever since 1852 In that yeer he en-
/ barkt into a spcculashun witch lid
/ tair 10 make wun Nv the wealthiest
men in the State, and wood, he'd
things bin eontinyood normal. Their
wuz niggers runnin TO the Federal
camps from ali parts az the STATE, aud
the Elder conceived an idea Of goiu
to the said camps and claimin uy enl.
The offiser Ia command wuz 50 ans,
ious To consulate EN- that he wood
gladly give en- up, without bein per.
tikiler about proofs, and the Elder
gathered, in that way, in two months,
over a hundred. Il required q good
deel Of ridla. and that faligae com
bined with the exposure incident C
bashwhaekin Federal pickels, wich
wuz guardin his fences and sikh
brought on ell Of sickness from
wich be never fully recovered. I'll,
Emancipashen Prociamashcn nearly
finished him. and he fingered along