Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-01
NASBY.
A GOOD DEMOCRAT GoNE-ELDER PENN
hackers DEATH-wHAT KILLED HIM.
From the Toledo Blade
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
(wich is in the State NV Kentucky)
: Inlr 81 1870


hackers DEATH-wHAT KILLED HIM.
[From the Toledo Blade1
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
(wich is in the State NV Kentucky,)
July 20, 1872. J
We hev bin smitten! Deaths icy hand
hez removed from our midst one who
wuz towunst an ornament and piller.
Elkanah Pennibacker is no more.
Elder Pennibacker wuz native Nv
Kentucky; indeed, no other State Good
hev perdoost sich man. He wuz born
in the very house in wich he died, or
rather he 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 found it impossible to git fire.
wood. After the rail fences wuz gone
they commenced ON the house, and he'd
yoosed it all up but four rooms.
The deth NV this good man is doc to
the Greeley movement He never wuz
capable NV understandin it, and at first
refoozed to yield to it. He refoozed to
buy one NV the white hats wich | brot
back from Cincinnati, and Bascom wuZ
forst to take stern measures with him.
Mary drink, Elder, till it goes under
that hatI" That fetched him. He put it
on.
swat do we want to take up Greeley
fors" he asked.
''To beat Grant withl' ansered.
"Why not take up Grant to beat Gree
ley with?" replied this honest, tho OBJ
toose, old man, to wich l didn't say a
word, findln an anser somewat difficult.
He accepted Greeley, however, tho it
wuz mostly becoz we insistid on it, but he
did it in daZed sort Nv way, and wuz
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 of the 7fi5oon.
I'm Dimocrat," sed he, sadly, with a
puzzled look, ''and | find, akkording to
my candidate fur President, that I'm a
hoss-thief, liar, perjured villin, a slum,
and that I'm bought with British gold.
amt hoss thief, and never wuz, and eff
I've bin bought with British gold, where's
the gold Good Hevins shell go madr'
And the wretchid old saint, who was
afflicted with a mind wich wuzn't calke-
lated to grasp the suttleties of modern
politix, wood rush out ov his house into
the field, and calm hisself by communin
with nacher.
Last Toosday we ratified He kerried
torch, and he'd on white hat, but he
actid in very eccentric manner He
didn't keep in line, and wuz constantly
murmuring to himself. He went home
without takin nothin at Bascom's, and
then | knowed suthin was wrong. No
Kentuckian kin survive his loss of appe-
tite.
1t wuz ez l feared. Wednesday morn
in 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 l
borrowed Nv him five yeers ago. I wuz
satisfied from this that he wuz failin !
gave him little likker in a spoon, wich
brot him to hisself.
'Parson," sed he, Somewhere I've
read an anecdote of a man wich wuz
drunk, and witch, leanin up against a
tree, vomited. While he wuz contem-
platin the elected contents Nv his stun
ick, little dog came snuff1n around, and
the man saw him, and wuz amazed
Thunder he remarked L know where ]
eat them crackers, l member with ut
most 'stinctness where l got that bolony
sausage, but curse me eff | know where
ate that dog Parson, I'm in the same
fix. hev taken the Cincinnati emetit
and its worked. l know where got my
free-trade. l remember distinkly when
swallowed States rites, but I'm cursed e
1 know where I took in that Greeley pup
with an Ablishn head and high protec
tive tariff tail. Parson, it's too much
And the poor old man buried his head il
the kivrin and wept vociferous.
[ left him, but returned in the after
noon. found him worse than ever He
had deliberately gone to the closet anC
taken out banner which he had proudly
carried the year before, which represented
Greeley embracing niger woman wicl
weighed 200 lbs, and he'd torn that ban
ner from the supportin frame, and wrap
ped himself into it. He he'd DESTROYED al
the notices wich we yoosed to carry
such ez ''No niger supremacy" "Whit
men shell rool Ameriky," and sich, re
markin, ez he regarded the wreck Nv EN-
6 / shell die, parson, but [ thot best t
leave nothin behind that wood embarras
y00." | took occasion to hint that he he
better add that note Nv hand Nv mine t
the rooins, and he sed sadly that it WOO
be ez well. 1T amt wuth no more tha
the rest," he remarkt
He got into bed again and sunk into
troubled slumber. In about an hour, b
awoke, when his dimed eye happened t
rest onto the white hat Nv mine, wich
he'd hung onto the ed-post He riz u
in bed holdin his hands afore hisey ez
to shet out some horrid vision, and shreal
in violently, sunk back corpse.
Thus died Elder Pennibacker, one u
my first friends at the Corners He WI
stanch and stoopid. He wuz bleeve
in States rites, in Ham and Hager, an
in Democracy. He died from a sever
attack Nv supposin Horris Greeley /
be ez honest ez he wuz himself Il
woodent turn Ablishnist for no Off
and he spozed that Horris wuz sti
the same old heather that he alluz wu
He bleeved that Horris he'd swallere
the Dimocratic party, and do w
Good, Good not make him understan
that the Dimocratic party had slavere
Horris over with the Presidency al
swallered him. Poor old mani He dor
understand sich pollitishens ez do, or
would hev knowd better and lived. T
died Nv stoopidity, a disease wich, eff
wuz alluz fatal, wood redoose our par
to a mere nothin, noomerically
Deekin Pogram and l are administr
tors Nv his estate. Ez Bascom hez
mortgage on the farm for all it is wort
our dooties will be light There air
been crop raised on the place since Il
emancipation Nv the niggers, and Basco
hez furnisht him and his sons his likk
ever sence on tick Most Nv the proper
in this visinity is in the same fix. Min
wood be, but fortunately haven't any
PETRoLFJM " Massey
(Wich wuz Postmaster