The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-09-04
PETROLEUM Massey.
A Good Democrat Gone-E1der PenDf-
hackers Death-whaf KILLED Him.
CoNFEDRITE Y ROADS,
(wich is in the State NV
Eanfuctv \ Jufv On 1870


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Elder Pennibacker wuz a native NV
Kentucky, indeed no other State Good
hev perdoost sich man. He waz
born in the very house in witch he
died, or rather be died in wat wuz
left NV it. 1t he'd bin large house
wunst, but when Linkin emansipated
the niggers, and the Elder and his six
sons wuz deprived NV labor, they
feund it impossible to git frewood.
After the rail fences wuz gone they
commenced on the house, and he'd
yoosed it all up but for rooms
The death NV this good man is doc
to the Greeley movement. He never
wuz capable NV understanding it, and
at first refoozed to yield to it. He
refoOzed to buy one NV the white hats
which | brOt back from Cincinnati
and Bascum 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 Gree
lev for ?" he asked.
( ITO beat Grant with p ansered.
why not take up Grant to beat
Greeley with ?" replied this honest,
tho obtoose old man, to witch I didn't
say a word, fndin an anser some
what difficult.
! HE ACCEPTED GREELEY,
however, tho it wuz mostly becoz we
insistid on it e.; bnt be did it in a dazed
sort NV a way and wuz never himself
afterward He deliberately cut down
two hickories which he had in front
NV his house, and he spent the most
NV his time spellin out articles in an
old copy NV the Tribune.
I'm a Dimocrat," sed be, sadly,
with a puzzled look, "and / find,
akording to my candidate fur Presi-
dent, that I'm a hoss thief, a har,
peuerd villin, a slum, a harlot, aud
and that I'm bought with British
gold / amt harlot, and never wuz
and if I've been bought with British
gold, where's the gold d? Good Hevins,
| shell go mad"
And the old saint, who was afllict-
ed with a mind which wuzn't calkela-
ted to grasp the sutt.eties of modern
politix, would rush out of his house
into the field, and calm hisself by
communin with nachur.
Last ToOsday we ratified. He
kerred a torch and he'd on a white
hat, but he, actid in very eccentric
manner He didn't keep in line, and
was constantly murmurin to hisself,
Il amt harlot, | amt harlot, and
| never wuz" He went home with
out takin nothin at Bascom's, and
then | knOwed suthin wuz wrong.
No Kentuckian kin survive his loss Ov
appetite.
1t wuz ez | feared. Wednesday
mornin he wuz unable to rise from his
bed, and l 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 years ago. was satisfied from
this that he wuz failin. / gave him a
little likker in a spoon, wieh brot him
to hisself.
left him, but returned in the af-
ternoon. / found him worse than
ever He had deliberately gone to
his closet and taken out a banner
which he he'd proudly carried the
year afore, wieh represented Greeley
embracin nigger womans witch
weighed 200 lbs, and he'd torn that
banner from the supportin frame, and
wrapped hisself into it. He he'd de-
stroyed all the notices wich we yOos-
ed to carry, such ez "No nigger
supremacy" white men shell rool
Ameriky," and sieh, remarkin, ez he
regarded the wreck NV EN-, II shell
die, parsOn, but thOt best to leave
nothin behind that wood embarrass
goo. | 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. 1T amt
wuth no more than the rest" he re-
markt.
He got into bed agin, and sunk in
to a troubled slumber. In about an
hour he awoke, when his dimed eve
happened to rest onto the bed-post.
He riz up in bed, holdin his hands
afore his eyes ez if to shet cut some
horrid vision, and shreekin violently,
sunk back corpse.
Thus died Elder Pennibaeker, one
Nv my first friends at the Corners.
He wuz
sTANCH AND sTOoPID.
He was bleever in States rites, in
Ham and Hager, and in Democracy.
He died from a severe attack of sup
posin Horris Greeley to be ez honest
ez he WIZ himself. He woodent
turn Ablishnist for no offs, and he
spozed that HOrris was still the same
old heathen that he alluz wuz. He
bleeved that Horris had swallowed
the Democratic party, and do wat
Good, L Good not make him under
stand that the Democratic party bad
slavered HOrris over with the Presi-
dency, and swallered him. Poor old
man, He don't understand sieh
politishens ez | do, or he wood hev
knowd better and lived. He died NV
a disease wich, if it wuz
alluz fatal, wood redoose our party to
a mere nothin, noomerically
Deekin Pogram and / are admins
traitors NV his estate. Ez Baseom
hez mortgage on the farm for all it
is worth, our dooties will be light.
There amt been crop raised on the
place sence the emancipation NV the
niggers, and Bascom hez furnisht him
and his sons his likker ever senee on
tick. Most NV the property in this
is in the same fix. Mine
wood be, but fortunately i haven't
anv.
PETROLEUM '. NASBY,
(Wich wuz POstmaster.)
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