The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-05-22
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Wtth Fernando wood.

wtth Fernando wood.
Editor r. r.: When great interests
are at stake, my boy, and strong passions
are excited, and when it becomes neces-
sary that u whole nation shall be unanim-
GUS for it's own preservation from destruc-
ton, We occasionally meet with chaps
of severe countenance and much shirt
ruffies, whose patriotism is purely that Of
descent, and not at all of ascent Since
this great stragetic war commenced, /
have encountered divers iron faced and
brass mounted conservative fellow beings.
whose sentiments in action have seemed
to establish as an inevitable postulate in
logic, that man sired by hero Of '76.
must naturally be dam'd by the heroes OF
'63; and that man with Revolutionary
blood In his veins is entirely exempted
from all legitimacy to propensity for
spilling the least drop of that sacred Ii.
quid in behalf of cause not Revolution.
airy. 1t was on Tuesday, my boy. that
met the Honorable Fernando Fuel. the
member elect from the Sixth Ward, who
had come hither for the express purpose
OF getting up for himself an entirely new
coat OF arms, according to New York
Heraldry. and of procuring from some
scholar reconcile couplet that could at
once serve, in motto form, to denote his
Revolutionary descent, and express his
high-moral patriotism as apart from any
partisan desire to see injury inflicted upon
the Maynard Sisters of his distracted
country. lie came to me, and says he
Learning. Sir, that you are qualified
10 Gull from Your extensive poetical read
ings some unique eouplst appropriate for
my approaching coat-of-arms, / desire
you to furnish me with the same, and
present your bill to ouf Excellent Demo-
cratic Organization. of which am Chief
indian near-in short. Sachem local.
"a patriotism, = says he, standings slight
cough with black cotton glove"
patriotism is doubted BY none by those
imbecl'e despots who defeated our Elk
eellent Democratic Organization in the
last Presidential election, and are now
wag'ng a bloody and unnatural war for
the sake o! the Demon Of Africa. Blu,
my patriotism hurts back the epithet Of
traitor" aud is clearly established by
the isct that / had an ancestor in the
revolution. 1t is my wish," says thi.
p'ausibly- spoken chap, nodding to Faro
banker as no happened to pass at that
moment" it Is my wish that the ouplei
should express, neatly and fguratively a,
It We're. the exact degree Of nv present
patriotism, and it's derivation from my
Revolutionary ancestor. Let it represent
me clothed in patriotism. as it were"
Thought upon his words for while
my boy, and then says 1:
I" For such uospeakable patriotism .,
yours, good Fuol. there can be no ine
couplet than this:
"a painted vest Prince vortigcr had on,
That from native Pict his grandsre won."
The Honorable Fuel turned very Grim
son in the face with intense just fcatiop
and says he: " Ha ha ,--ahem! Yes
that's not bad. Hal ha! very good
you internal black Republican your
He left me, as cloud might leave III,
sun with which it had vainly attempte,
to cut up shines, and felt for q m acme ut
like one lost in the wood. With the bes
intentions in the world, / had only cue
ceeded in adding Fuel to the flames O
tr0asen