The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-06-25

'''S " D"iiy IVY Will SlitSS el Z. just
spit in his face and give him room ac-
cording to his strength, and it was just
beautiful to see him peel and 60 in. He
was the worst son of thief that ever
idrawed breath. Pard, he was on it. He
was on it bigger than an Injunr
"On it? On what ?"'
''On the shoot. On the shoulder. On
the fight Understand? He didn't give
continental for anybody. Beg your
pardon, friend, for coming so near say
ing a cuss word-tut YOU see I'm ON an
awful strain in this palaver, on account
OF having to cram down and draw every
thing so mild. But we've got to give
him up, There amt any getting round
that, i don't reckon. Now, if we can't
get you to help plant him
"Preach the funeral discourse AS
sist at the OF, equies p
"Obs'ques is good. Yes. That's it !;
that's our little game We are going to
get up the thing regardless, you know.
He was always nifty hipself, so you bet
his funeral amt going to be no slouch :;
solid silver door plate on his coffin, six
plumes on the hearse, and nigger on
the box with billed shirt and plug hat
-how's that for high? And we'll take
care of you, pard. Wen fix you all
right. There will be kerridge for you;
and whatever you want just 'scape out,
aud we'll tend to it. We've got q she
bang fixed up for you to stand behind,
in No. Is house, and don't sell clam.
Put Buck through as bully as you can,
pard, for anybody that knowed him will
tell you that he's one of the whitest men
in the mines. You can't draw it too
strong. He never could stand it to see
things going wrong. He's done more to
make this town peaceable than any man
in it. I've seen him lick four Grea-
sers in eleven minutes, myself. If any
thing wanted regulating, he warn't the
man to 90 browsing around after some
body to do it; he would prance in and
regulate it himself He warn't Catho-
lie but it didn't make no difference about
that when it came down to what man s
right was-and so, when some roughs
jumped the Catholic bone yard and start
ed to stake out town lots on it, he went
for 'em! And he cleaned 'em. too! /
] was there and seen it myself"
"That was very well, indeed-at least
the impulse was-whether the act was
strictly defensible or not. Had deceased
any religious convictions! That is to
say, did he feel dependence upon, or
acknowledge allegiance to higher pow
err" ! 81 r.a..
More reflections 81,
81 reckon you've stnmped mo again,
pard. Could you say it over once more,
and say it slow?'
"Well, to simplify it somewhat, was
he,or rather had he ever been connected
with any organization seques rated from
secular concerns and devoted to self-sac-
rifice in the interest of morality?'
"All down but nine-set 'em up on the
other alley, pard!'
"What did | understand you to say p
"Why, you are too many for me, you
know When you get in with your left,
l hunt grass every time"
"How? Begin again p
"That's it,
Every well Was he good man,
and"
"There-see that; don't put up anoth.
er chip till 1 look at my hand. A good
man, says you? Pard, it ain'tno name
for it, He was the best man that ever
pard.yo would have dotted on that man
He could lam any galoot of his inches
in America 1t was him that put down
the riot last election before it got a start !;
and everybody said that he was the only
man that could have done it. He waltz
, ed in with q trumpet in one hand and q
spanner in the other, and sent fourteen
men home on shutter in less than three
minutes. He had the riot all broke and
prevented nice before anybody ever got
chance to strike blow.
"He was always for peace, and he
would have peace-he could not stand
disturbances. Pard, he was great loss
to this town. 1t would please the boys
| if you could chip in something like that,
and do him justice. He once, when the
Micks got to throwing stones through
the Methods Sunday School windows,
Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion,
shut up his saloon and took up couple
of six shooters and mounted guard over
the Sunday School. Says he, No Irish
need applyn And they didn't He was
the bullest man in the mountains, pard ;
he could run faster, jump higher, swear
harder and hold more tangle foot whis-
Ky without spilling than any man in sew
! enteen counties. Put that in, pard it'll
please the boys more than anything you
could say. And you can say, pard, that
he never sheok his mother"
"Nevcr shook his mother p
"Thats it-any of the boys will tell
you So"
We'll but why should he shake her ?"
"That's what l say-but some peo-
| pie does" ar
''No people of any repute."
"Well, some that average pretty So
So"
ain my opinion, man that would Of
fer personal violence to his mother
ought to"
"Cheese it, pard; you've booked your
ball clean outside of the string. What
| was driyin' at was that he never
Mrowed off on his mother--don't you
see? No, indeed. He give her house
to live in, and town lots ahd plenty OF
money land he looked after her and took
care of her all the time; and, when she
was down with the small pox, he set up
nights and nursed her himself. | think
you're white. | think you're square
man, pard. / like you, and I'll lick the
man that don't I'll lick him till he cant
tell himself from last years corpse
Put it there" Another fraternal hand
shake-and exit.
The obsequies were all that 'the boys
could desire Such a marvel of funeral
pomp had never been seen in Eirgini;
City. The p.umed hearse, the dirge
breathing brass bands, the closed marts
of business, the flags dropping at half