Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-12
From the Toledo Blade
NASBY.
The DeCease Of Elder PennIbacker..-
The ParsOn indllges In Appropriate
Reflections,

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Reflections.
PosT OTTIs, CoSTEDRT < ROADS, !
witch is in the State nv Kentucky,)
January rs, 1858.
Wun by wuu we gol Wun by wun the tall oaks
wich hev stood, onmoved, tLe blasts time, totter
and fall We view their PROSTATE forms second,
methinks, they sink into the earth and are lost to
site, tho 10 memry dear, forever Then around the
old stump the young sprouts grow up more ylgor-
ouser than ever
amt slingin these moral reAecshuns for nothin.
never waste the pathetcs. Whenever a man is
pulled drowndid from the creek in this visinity,
wich happens frekenty there being three distiler-
les onto it. never weep until l see whether be be-
longs 20 my congregashun. 1t requires too much
Nv an effort 70 weep, 10 do it on all okkashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker To- wunstthe strength
and ornament Nv the meetin- house witch ! hev
bin for two yeers the pastor departed this life at
P. NJ. this afternoon. For him l weep for him the
teers 6owin over the paper onto witch these lines
lie penned. ] writin EN- in the presence Nv the
wife and children Nv the deceest, and it does EN-
good to see me affected. When one kin confer sat-
isfaction at little trouble 10 carry onion in
his pocket handkerchief he wood be broot indeed
ef he did not prove hisself ekal TO the occasion.
Elder Pennibacker wuz born in the eastern part
Nv Pennsylvany nv real old Democratic stock. he
WIZ born amid the scenes Nv the war Nv Indepen-
| dence and he crowd up with RevOlooshenary men,
ries inspiring him. His father fought in the Revo-
looshen hnvin come all the way across the Atlantic
| 20 do It. BE wuz Hession, and therefore wuznt
penshund by the Amerikin Government. But at the
Fourth of Jooly celenrsshens the old man waz in
vited 10 sit the stand, the yomanry of that sec
| shuu not KNOWN that il made any difference ez TO
the side be took in the struggle.
Young Abslum crowd up amid eXslent inhooen-
ces Their wuznt No skools in the visinity in his
infancy and list ez be mite hev bin contaminated
| bv en- his father moved 10 kentucky, wher he wuz
| safe from an SIGH. The old gentleman dyln, Abslum
inherited The paternal akers and paternal nlggers
| and become a man among us. The genius Nv the
man now began TO develop. Untrameled by the
narrer views Nv bis paternal ancestor, he boldly
launcht out for hsself He early distinguished his
self by his inventive genius wich took the real
Kentucky shoot. Twas him witch conceived the
idea NV brqidin small wire into the ashes Nv Niger
whips; and not satisfied with that, he after a
months bard study brought out the Improvement
in the ngger-paddle nv borin holes into it. He he'd
desprit struggle to git it adopted. The blind
planters Nv the neighborhood bed faith in the old
paddle plain, and the Elder wuz forst TO demon
strste, by actooa experiment on his nggers its 500
periority. He killed two in don It, but he triumphed
Ii wuz found that more chastisement Good be in
Gicted with it in given time, than by the old
method, end that it lasted longer. IH tAa
need not say wat his politics wuz. lie was
never nothin but a Dimocrst he COMMENT bis
career voting three times for jackson, and the
didates witch followed in succession he'd no cause TO
complain NV his zeal. Under Bookanan his faith
/ funess wuz rewarded The post ofiis witch 1 now
hold wuz given him, and he discharged the dOoties
/ faithfully and TO tho best NV his ability EZ he
cooden read he pJ wat letters witch arrive out into
/ box outside, lettn every one who come take one
eff they wanted TO. The paper wich come TO the
offs for Deel,n Pogram he learned 90 distribbit in
two weeks. The out-goin mail be dumped into a
louisville bag, feeln great load of his mind when
Il departd lie held the offs till they wantid him
/ TO mako out quarterly report. He wuz non- plus
sed. lie either he'd 10 buy niger who Good read
and write or resign, and he resigned. halfstarved
Yankee WAS appointid in his stead, who reigned Til
! / relieved him.
The Elder wuz the happy possessor NV three hun.
dred nggers. They WIZ probably the best lot o.
niggers ez they run, in Northwestern Kentucky
he he'd three shades Nv color. The trader Good fno
anything in the line Nv nggers up to these three
| that be wantid, on his plantashen. Their wuz the
pure congo, the agil muatto, and the comey quad
| room. Their wuz no higher mix than the quadroon
/ for il viii be remembered the family hednt biz
/ slavo-owners but three generashens They had ac
complished great deal, however for the time they
! he'd he'd EN-.
/ The Elder he'd bin in failin health ever sine,
| 1862 In that year he embarkt into speculsshur
| wich bid fair % make him wun Nv the wealthies
men in the state, and wood, he'd things bin contin
! yood normal. Their wuz niggers runnin TO the Fed
eral camps from all parts NV the State and the FL
| der conceived the idea Nv gon 10 the said camps
and claimn NV EN-. The oGiser ia command wuz
/ so anxious 20 consulate en- that he wood gladly
| give EN- up without bein pertikiler about proofs
and the Elder gathered, in that way, in two months
over hundred. It required good deal of ridin
and that fatigue combined with the exposure Incl.
/ dent 10 bufhwhackin Federal pickets, witch wul
guardin bis fences and sich, brought a spell NV
sickness from which he never fully recovered. The
| Emancipashen Proclamashen nearly finished bin
] ~. Al. T,I~
sons 22d NV FebrooAry speech witch actid ez tonic
onto him. He revived, but the effeck temper
ary E. the Conservatives made Roadway he came
up, and q Congris triumphed, be went down, and
thus be lived like a candle in a tin lantern, nckrn
or quiet, ez the wind blowd. He plGckt up smsz
inly after the eleckshuns last fall but alas the
treschery nv Meade and the Reinstatement Nv
stanton wuz two blows from wch he Good not hope
! 90 recover And So yesterday, at 2 p NJ. witch in
| this case mesns post norton, he died.
"Send in Seirey !" sed he, and favorit mulattC
woman NV hizzen who OWN 10 the fact Nv her hsv.
IN eight children who wuz quadroons, he'd stayed
onto the place, sent for. She sot on the bed,
and the Elders head wuz placed in her lap. "Give
me my nanny said he and a box Nv Confedrit
scrip wuz given him. And so, with his head in
Ssireys lap fngerin Confedrit scrip and takn lik-
ker out NV a spoon, he passed gently away. 1t wuz
a troo Kentucky deparcher. This is the eend Nv
life Z" sed I Nav my eend be like his murmur-
ed Deekr Pogram, and all was DER.
There ysus trouble immejitly. When the Elders
will wuz read l WIZ disappointed TO find that he he'd
not remembered me and Mrs. Pennibacker wuz
also disappointed 10 End that the Elder he'd left tbe
halt Nv be estate 20 Sairey and his wife, Sairey
and the people NV the corners 20 wich he wuz in
debted in small sums wuz disappointed TO find that
Bascom bed mortgage on everything the Elder
possessed uv quiie its valyoo. BaSooE, ! hleeve,
hez mortgage onto every foot uv ground within
ten miles Nv here. lie wood hey mortgage oGto
my properly, I make no doeht Of I he'd any. But
I amt halleloogyl do wish, however that some
one Nv more enlarged views wood start grocery
herel It's inconvenient to hev so sharp a man sup
plying VOC with the absloot necessities ev life We
buried che Elder to-day. IL wuE s lsrge funeral
In the front wuz hfs children, BY HIS wife then the
entire corners and back Nv them more than forty
yaler nixgers, who he'd bin hsBen. Wat dravd
EN- 20 bis tomb Wuz IL iustiEk Who kin tell ?
But n piler hez fallen; am toe sad 10 write more
PKTRoLEUN V. NAsBT, 2. NJ,
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