Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-02-27
From the Toledo Blade.
N NASBY.
The Decease of Elder Penniback-
er-The Parson INDUCES in APP
propriate Reflections.

P0sTOFgfs. COSPEDRIT X ROAps,
(Wich i, 10 the Stait Nv Kentucky

PosTOFPIs. COSPEDRIT X ROADS
(Wch is 10 the stat Nv keotucky,j(
January 25ti, 1868.
Wun by wun we 60! Wm by
wun the tall oaks wich hey stood,
onmoved, the blasts Of time, totter
and fall! We view their PROSTATE
/ forms a second, methinks, they sink
into the earth and are lost to site.
tho to memry dear, forever Then
around the old stump the young
sprouts grow up more vigorously
than ever
/ amt slingin these moral reflect
shuns for nothin | never waste
the pathetics. Whenever a man is
pulled drowndid from the creek in
this visinity, wich happens frekent-
", there bein three distilleries onto
it, never weep until / see whether
he belongs to my congregashun.-
1t requires too much nv an effort
to weep, to do it on all okkashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker, to-
wunst the strength and ornament
of the mectin- house Nv wich / hey
bin for two yeers the pastor, depart
ed this life at = 2. NJ. this afternoon.
For him / weep, for him the teers
is flowin over the paper on wich
these lines is penned. l am writin
EN- in the presence nv the wife and
children Of the deceest, and it does
EN- good to see me effected. When
one kin confer satisfaction at so lit
tie trouble ez to carry an onion in
his pocket handkerchief, he would
be broot indeed ef he did not
prove hisself ekal to the occasion.
Elder Pennibacker wuz born in
the eastern partuv Pennsylvany, NV
real old Democratic stock He wuz
born amid the scenes NV the war ny
Independence, and he crowd up with
Revolooshenary memIies insplrin
him. His father fought in the Rev
olooshen, havin come all the way
across the Atlantic to do it. He
wuz a Hession, and therefore wuznt
penshuned by the Amerikin Gov
eminent. But at the Fourth of Ju-
" celebrashuns, the old man wuZ
invited to sit on the stand, the yo-
manry NV that secshun not KNOWN
that it made any difference ez to the
side he took in the struggle.
Young Abslum crowd up amid
existent inhooences. There wuznt
no skools in the visinity in his in
fancy, and jist ez he mite hev bin
contaminated by EN-, his father
moved to Kentucky, wher he WIZ
safe from all sich. The old gentle
man dyin, Abslum inherited the pa
ternal akers, and paternal niggers
and became a man amung men
The genius NV the man now begun
to develop. Untrammeled by the
narrer views NV his paternal ances
| ter, he boldly launcht ont for his
! self He early distinguished hisself
by his inventive genius, wich took
/ the real Kentucky shoot. Twas
him wich conceived the idea nv
hraidin small wire into TIE lashes
NV nigger whips; and not satisfied
with that, he, after month S
hard study, brought out the
improvement in the nigger-pad-
Idle NV BORN holes into it. He he'd
a desprit struggle to git it adoptid.
The blind planters NV the neigh
Iborhood he'd faith in the old paddle,
plain, and the Elder wuz forst to
demonstrate, by actooal experiment
or his niggers, its sooperiority.-
He killed two in doin it, but he tri-
umphed. 1t was found that more
chastisement Good be inflicted with
| in A given time, than by the old
method, and that it lasted longer
| Ineed not say what his politics
wua. He wuz never nothin but a
IDimocrat. He commenst his career
ivotin three times for Jackson, and
the candidates wich follered in sue
tcession he'd NO cause to complain
NV his zeel. Under Bookanan his
faithfulnis wuz rewarded. The post
offs wiCh | now hold wuz given him
and he discharged the dooties faith
fully and to the best of his ability.
Ez he coodent read, he put wat let
ters wich arriv out into a box out
side, lettin every one who come
take one eff they wantid to. The
paper wich come to tue otfis for
Deekin Pogram he learned to dis
.tribbit in two weeks. The out-goin
mail he dumped into a louisville
bag, feelin a great load wuz off his
mind when it departid He held
the offs till they wantid him to
make out a quarterly report. He
wlz nonplussed. He either he'd to
ibuy nigger who Good read and
write, or resign; and he resigned.
A half-starved Yankee wuz appoint
id in his stead, who reigned till | re-
leeved him. n
The Elder WIZ the happy possess
or nv three hundred niggers. They
wuz probably the best lot ofniggers
ez they run, in Northwestern Ken.
tueky. He he'd three shades Of col
or The trader Good find anything
in the line NV niger, up to these
three, that he wantid, on his planta.
shun. There wuz the pure congo.
the agil mulatto, and the comely
quadroon, Their wuz no higher
mix than the quadroon, for it viii
be remembered the family hedn'i
bin slave-owners but three genera.