Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-16
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| GeOd Democrat G0ne-Elder Penniback.
! er's Death-What Killed him.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS y
| (Which is in the State NV Kentucky,)
July 90 1872.
We hev in smitten! Deaths icy hand hez
| removed from our midst one who wuz to-
| wunst an ornament and pillar Elkanah
| Pennib. cker is no more
Elder Pennibacker wuZ a native NV Ken
| lucky; indeed no other State Good hev per-
doost sich man. He wuz born in the very
house in which he died. or rather he died in
wat wuz lett Nv it. 1t he'd bin large house
wunst. but when Linkin emansipated the mig
gers, and the Elder and his six sons wuz de-
prived NV labor, they found it impossible to
git tirewood. After the rail fences wuz gone
they commenced on the house, and he'd yoosed
it all up but four rooms.
The death Nv this good man is doc TO the
Greeley movement He never wuz capable NV
understandin It, and at first refoosed to yield
to T.. He refoosed to buy one NV the white
hats wich / brot back from Cincinnati, and
Bascom wuz forst to take stern measures with
him. " Nary drink, Elder, till it goes under
that hat! !" That fetched him. He put it on.
Wat do we want to take up Greeley for ?" he
asked
"To beat Grant with !" ansered
''Why not take up Grant to beat Greeley
with ?" replied this honest, tho obtoose, old
man, to wich didn't say word, findin an
anser somewat difficult.
He accepted Greeley however, tho it wuz
mostly becoZ we insistid on it. but he did 1t in
dazed sort Nv way and WIZ never hisself
afterward. He deliberately cut down two
hickories wich he he'd in front Nv his house,
and he spent the most NV his time spellin out
articles in an old copy Nv the ITiboon.
I'm a Dimocrat," sed he, sadly, with
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candidate fur President, that I'm hOss-thief,
liar, perjered villin, slum, harlot, and
that I'm bought with British gold. amt har-
lot, and never wuz, and eff I've bin bought with
British gold, where's the gold? Good Hevins!
I shel go mad"
And the wretchid old saint, who was afflicted
with mind which wuzn't calkelated to grasp
the suttleties of modern politix. wood rush
out ov his house into the field, and calm his
self by communion with nacher.
Last Toosday we ratified. He kerried
torch and he'd on white hat, but he actid in a
very eccentric manner. He didn't keep in
line and wuz constantly murmurin to HIM
self, g. amt harlot-I amt harlot, and
never wuz." He went home without takin
nothin at Bascom's, and then knowed suthin
wuz wrong. No Kentuckian kin survive his
loss Nv appetite.
It wuz ez feared. Wednesday mornin he
wuz unable to rise from his bed, and went to
see him. His mind wuz wanderin. In his
delirium he asked me to pay him nine dollars
and half wich borrowed Nv him five yeers
ago. I wuz satisfied from this that he wuz
fallin. 1 gave him a little ikker in spoon,
wich brot him to hisself.
"Parson," sed he, somewhere I've read an
anecdotc NV a man wich wuz drunk, and wich
leanln up agin tree, vomited. While he wuz
contemplatin the elected contents Nv his
stunnick, little dog came snuffn around. and
the man saw him, and wus amazed. Thun-
l. II
crackers, member with utmost 'stlnctness
where got that bolory sassage, but DIN me
eff know where ate that dog Parson I'm
in the same fix. 1 hev taken the Cincinnati
emetic and it's worked. / know where 1 got
my free-trade, remember distinkly when 1
got my States rites, but I'm id eff I know
where I took in that Greeley pup, with an
ablishen head and high protective tariff tail.
Parson, it's too much" And the good old man
buried his head in the kivrin and wept vocif-
erous.
/ left him, but returned in the afternoon. I
found him worse than ever. He had deliber-
ately gone to his closet and taken out a banner
wich he he'd proudly carried the year afore,
Wich represented Greeley embracin niger
woman wich weighed 200 lbs., and he'd torn
that banner from the supportin frame, and
wrapped hisself into it. He he'd destroyed
all the notices wich we yoosed to carry, such
ez 'No niger supremacy" White men shell
rool Ameriky," and sich, remarkln, ez he re-
garded the wreck Nv EN-, . shell die, parson,
but thought best to leave nothin behind that
wood embarrass 600" l took occasion to hint
that he he'd better add that note Nv hand Nv
mine to the rooins, and he sed sadly that it
wood be ez well. I" 1t amt wuth no more than
the rest" he remarkt. 4
He got into bed agin and sunk into
troubled slumber. In about an hour. he
awoke, when his dimed eye happened to rest
onto the white hat of mine, wich he'd hung
onto the bed-post. He riz up in bed, holdin
his hands afore his eyes ez eff to shet out some
horrid vision, and, shreekin violently, sunk
back corpse.
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one NV my
first friends at the Corners. He wuz stanch
and stoopid. He wuz a bleeve in States
rites. IN Ham and Hager, and in Democracy.
He died from severe attack Nv supposin
Horris Greeley to be eZ honest eZ he wuz
himself He woodent turn Ablishnist for no
offs, and he spozed that Horris wuz still the
same old heathen that he alluz wuz. He
bleeved that Horris had swallered the Dino
cratic party, and do wot I Good, Good not
make him understand that the Dimocratic
party he'd slavered Horiis over with the Presi-
dency and sWallered him. Poor old man
He don't understand sich pollitishens ez l do,
or he wood hev knowd better and lived He
died NV stoopidity, disease wich, eff it wuz
alluz fatal, wood redoose our party to mere
nothin. noomeucaly.
Deekin Pogram and are administrators Nv
his estate. Ez Bascom hez a mortgage on the
farm for all it is worth our dooties will be
light There amt been a crop raised on the
place sence the emancipation Nv the niggers,
and Bascom hez furnisht him and his sons his
likker ever sence on tick. Most Nv the prop
erty in this visinity is in the same fix. Mine
wood be- but fortunately haven't any
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