The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-02-20
WHOLE NO. 1888.

on his niggers, its soOperiority. He
killed two in doin It, but he triumph.
1t wuS found that mere chastisment
Good be inflicted with it in given time,
than by the old method, and that il
lasted longer
need not say wat his politics wus
He wuz never nothin but Democrat.
lie eommenst bis career votin three
times for Jackson, and the candidates
wich follered in succession he'd no COZ
to complain NV bis zeel. Under Boo
kanan his faithfulness wuz rewarded.
The post offs wich / now hold wuz
6 ven to him, and he discharged the
dutic faithfully and to the best NV his
ability. Ez he coodnt reed, he put wat
letters wich arriv out into box out
side. lettin every one who come take
one if they wantedte The paper wich
cum TO the post offs for Deekin Po-
gram he learned to distribit in two
weeks The out -goin mail he dumped
into a Louisville bag. feelin a great
load off his mind when it departed.
lie held the offs until they wantid him
to make out a quarterly report. He
wuz nonplussed. lie either he'd to buy
a nigger who Good read and write, or
resign, and he resigned. A half starved
Yankee wuz appointed in bis stead,
who reigned till relieved him.
The Elder wuz the happy possessor
nv three hundred niggers. They wuz
probably the best lot NV niggers, ez
they run, in Northern Kentucky. Re
he'd three shades nv color. The trader
Good find anything in the line NV mig
ger, up to these three, that he wanted,
on his plantation. Their wuz the pure
congo, the agile mulatto, and the
comely quadroon. Their wuz no higher
mix than the quadroon, for it will be
remembered that the family hedn't bin
slave owners but three generashuns.
They he'd accomplished a great deal,
however, for the time they he'd he'd EN-.
The Elder he'd bin in failin health
ever sence 1869. In that yeer he en-
barkt into specelashen wich bid fair
to make him wun NV the wealthisst
men in the sta !, and wood, he'd things
bin continyood normal There wuz
niggers runniD to the Federal camps
from all parts Nv the State, and the
Elder conceived the idea NV goin to
the said camps and claimin Nv em.
The offiser in command wuz so anxious
to conciliste EN- nat he wood gladly
Civ EN- up, without bein petikler about
proofs, and the Elder gathered, in that
way, in two months, over a hundred.
1t required a good deel NV ridin, and
that fatigue combined with the expo
sure incident to bushwhackin Federal
pickets, wich wuz guardin his fences
and SIGH, brought on a spell NV
sicknis from which he never fully re-
covered. The Emancipashsn Proc
lamatiOn nearly fnisht him, and he
fingered along, broken man, ontil
Johnson's 29d Nv Febrooary speech,
wich acted ez a tonic onto him. He
revived, but the effeck wuz temporary.
Ez the Conservatives made headway,
he came up, and ez Congris triumphed
he went down, and thus he lived like
candle in tin lantern, fickrin or quiet,
ez the wind blowd. He plucked up
Amazinly after the eleckshuns last fall,
but alas, the tTeachsry nv Meade and
the reinstatement NV Stanton wuz two
blows from wieh he Good not hope to
recover. And SO, yesterday at . PM,
wich in this case means post mortem,
he died.
"Send in Sairey :" sed be, and IA
vorit mulatto woman nv hizzen who,
OWN to the fact Nv her havin eight chill
dren who wuz quadroons, he'd stayed
onto the place, wuz sent for. She sot
on the bed, and the elders head wuz
placed in her lap. "Give me munny,"
sed he, and a box NV Confedrit scrip
wuz given him. And so, with his head
in Sairey's lap, fngerin Confedrit scrip,
and takin likker out NV a spoon, he
passed gently away 1t wuz troo Ken
tucky deparchsr. "This is the eend NV
life" sed |. MAY my eend be like
his" murmured Deekin Pogram, and
all wuz over.
Their wuz trouble iinmejitly. When
the Elders will wuz read wuz diSap-
pinted to find that he he'd not remem-
hered me, and Mrs. Pennibacker wuz.
also disappointed to find that the Elder
he'd left half NV his estate to Sairey and
his wife, Sairey and the people Nv the
corners to which he wuz indebted in
small sums, wuz disappinted to find
that Bascom he'd mortgage on every
thing the Elder possessed, nv quite its;
valyoo-Bascom, / bleeve, hez q mort
gage onto every foot NV ground within
ten miles Nv here. He wood hev q
mortgage onto my property, make
TO doubt, eff l he'd any. But hain't, /,
halleloogy. / do wish, however, thas
some one Of more enlarged views wood
start grosery here! It's inconveuient
to hev so sharp a man supplyin yoO
with the absloot necessaries Nv life.
We buried the Elder to-day. Itwuz
large funeral. In the front wuz his
children, by his wife, then the entire
corners; and back NV them more than
forty yaller niggsrs, who he'd bin hizzen.
Wat drawd EN- to his tombi WuE it
instink ? Who kin tell But pillar
hez fallen; ! am too sad to write more