The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-07
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PROrRIErORs.
Mr.. Nasby COnyerses with Cen.
McStingcr of south Caroltha.
From tho Clnclnhati Noihuefciai.J
WASH fsG ron, DaC.. Nov. Is. 1s

spendin' the heft NV my time in Washington.
l find a melancholy pleasure In ling rim
around the scene NV so many demokratic
triumps Here it wuz that Brooks, the heroic,
bludgeoned Sumner here itwuz that Calhoon
& Yancey and Breckenridge achieved their
glory and renown. Besides, it is the easies
place to dodge board bill in the yoonitet
States. There's so many congressman here
who resemble me, that I hev no difficulty in
passin' for one two-thirds NV the time. .ss
Yesterday met in the reading room at
Williard's Gineral MacStringer, of South
karliny. The gnral is here on the same
bizness most " the southern men hev in this
classical city. chat NV prokoorin pardon,
which he he'd prokoored, and wuz gettin ready
to go home and accept the nominashen for
congress in his district. e
The gineral wuz gloomy. Things didn't
SCOT him, he observed, and he wuz afeerd that
the country WIZ on the high road to
rooin He he'd been absent from the eyoonited
States suthin over four yeers, which time he
he'd spentin the southern confederacy. When
he went out the consttooshnel dimocricy he'd
some rites wich wuz respected. On his return
weat did he see? The power in the hands NV
radicals, abhsnnsim in the majority every
where, ex traitor president-a state Nv
affairs disguslin in the extreme to the highly
sensitive southern mind. He had accepted q
pardon only because he felt hisself constrained
to put hisself r2 position to go to congress,
that the country might be reskood from its
impendin peril He shood 60 to congress
and then be shood ask the despots who now
hey control, whether
l. They spozed the South wood submit to
hoomiilatin cundishens
2. What Androo johnson means by dicta-
tin to the convenShens NV sovereign States?
''Why,N sez he, 'but few DAYS ago this
boor he'd the ashoorence to write to the
Georgy convenshen that it must not'--msrk
the term-'MuSr NOT assoom the confederate
war det.' Is I; tailor TO say must not to
shivelrous Georgyg Good God where are
we dri6tin? For one. never will be consil-
lated on them terns-neyerl / never wuz
used to that style NV talk in dimekratic con-
venshens.
''Ez soon ez ] take my seat in congress-
resoomed he ~ shell deliver speech, wich |
writ the day after Lee surrendered, SO ez to
hey it ready, il Y hich shel take the follerin
ground towit
THAT the South hey buried the hatchit,
and hev diShiyered that they love the old
Yooniou aboye euything on earth. Bat.
'sThe Mort must meet us half way. or We
won't be answelabe for the consekences
Ez basis for "a settlement, shell insist on
the follerin condishens
principal and interest, or eff paid, sthe South
ern war debt must paid lkewise-ez peece
ofierin. The doctrine NV state rites must be
made the supreme law NV the land. that the
South NAV withdraw Whenever they feel their.
selves dissatisfied with Massachusetts. Cv
coarse this is a olive branch.
Jefferson Dasis must be wunst set at T.
berty and Sumner hung. ez proof that the
.4o.l4. ts ready .pne.liatory. On. this pint
am mfiexible. and on the others immo.
vable. f.-s-s-
An old man Who he'd bin listnin to our talk,
murmuTed THAI there wuz parallel to his
last propoishen.
where demanded the genral.
''The Jews, | remember, replied he,
demanded tllat Barabos be released unto
them, who wuz a thief believe, and the Sa
viour be cruche3; but | forgit jist how it
wuz''
The genr-l v-h;tharee Liu VITA litnin
glance, and t5soomed:
sI shell, uy course, offer the north suting
In the way Wv compensation, forthe troo the
ory NV a republican government is comper-
mise. On our part we pledge ourselves to
kun back, and give the north the benifit NV
kuming back, SO long ez Massachusetts con-
dux herself akkordin to our ices Nv Whist is
rite. Putiftlis eh.talle adjustment is rejec
ted, all I hev To say then is, | shell resign,
aud the government may sink without effort
from me TO save il.
| wuz about 10 give in my experience when
the old man, who wuz sittin near us, broke
il again.
"My name, sed he, is "Magnnis, and ]
live in Alaba,na : want to say word to
the gentleman from karliny, and to the wun
from Moo GefsfF.
"How,n reloriel /, ''do you know I'm
from Moo oIGorSey. not heven spoken word in
your heareng
DBy a instinct hey. Whenever see .
sutherner laying it down heavy to an indivi.
ioull whose pi,synogamy is NV such cast
that upon beholdeu il you instiktvely feel to
see that YOUR pocket handkerchief is safe, a
face that wood BE- dangerous if thad courage
into il, | alluz know the latter to be north
ern copperhead. The Moo Gersey part |
Guessed at, becoz my friend, that state fur
nished the lowest order NV copperheads Nv
sny NV en-. Pardon me IT l fatter 700. But
What wanted TO say wnz, that suppose
suthen hez happened dooring the past years.
I was a original secessionist. sum years age
/ he'd hundred niggers, and wuz doing well
with EN-. Bat uuiorchunitily, my brother
died and left ne as much more land but no
niggers WANTED niggers enough to work
that land, and sposed ef cut off from the north,
and the slave trade was reopened, could git
en- cheaper. Hentz seceshed. Sich men
as Genral McStinger told me the north
voodent fight or | woodent hev secesht,
but / did it. / went out for wool and cnm
back sLorn. / seceshed With 100 niggers to
rit 200. and alas | find myself back into the
Old government, with nary nigger,
..But all this is 40 exco0se Tor talkin- bold
noncents, yoo old ass sed he, addressin
Genral McStinger ''yoo talk Nv wat you viii
do. and wat yoo won't. Heyent yoo diskiver-
ed that 700 are whipped? Hevent yoo found
out that VOC are subioogated? Are yoo back
into the yoonyon Nv your own free will and
akkord? Hevcut yoo got pardon in ycur
pockit, WHICH dochyment iss all that saves
your neck from stretchin hempf Why do
VOC talk of wat Soathkarlyny will and won't
do? Good Lordl / recoliect about a year
since Sonthkarlyny would never permit her
soil BE polutid by Yankee hirelns, yit
Sherman marched all over it with a few Nv
EN-, and skarcciy a gun was fred at em. So
too recollect that that sed Stait wich wuz
agoin to whip the entire North and wich wud
eff overpowered. submit gracefully and with
dignity to annihilashun, and sich, wuz the 1st
to git down on her marrowbones, and beg fur
peace like q dorg. Ef yoo intend this talk
for the purpose dy skarin the North, believe
me when say that the North amt so easy
skered ez II wuz. Ef its intendid for homc
the rlqopla. I've