The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-27
from the Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr.. Nasty has a Most Horrible
Vision.

SAINT REST, wien Is IN the Stalt nv MOO
Gersy,) October Is, 1865. !
Last mite, weary and Disguised with readin
eleckshun returns, ! picked up volum Nv
Cammells Poems, and red that splendid peese
'sThe Last Man Cammell is poick-ther
amt no doubt Nv it. Eff my too partial friens
amt too partial, l can whop him on the sub
lime, but on the pathetics, acknowledge him
ez my sooperior. Be that ez it may, the poem
made impression on my mind, wich is proof
that there is suthin into it, and my mind wuz
g. dwellin onto il ez sunk into slumber.
Ez yoosual had dream, and sieh dream
may | never hev agin.
Methaut the epidemick, wich is now devas-
tain Europe, he'd struck Moo York. For a
time il struck down all classes. The proud
Caucashen, the hidjus niger, the noble red
man NV the forest, and the almond eyed Chi
nese, all. all fell afore the ruthless destroyer.
But at last il abated, except so far as the Mig
gers wuz concerned. The white man wuz
spared, so wuz the Injun and the Chinese,
but among the Afrikins it ragged with redoub-
led fury. y, it wuz crushin The planter
looked abroad, and 10! the stalwart feeld
hand. wich wuz with $1,000, wuz cold
corpse. and the field wuz unplowed. Agin
he looked, and alas! the brawny wench, witch
alluz bore him picaninny, wich wuz with
by little extra whippin, did full year s
work, wuz PROSTATE in the cold embrace NV
death Agin he looked. and wo to him, the
octoroon, for witch he paid $4,000. and whose
girl babies he could sell in Moo Orleans ez
soon ez they wuz IS for $4,000, on ackount NV
their havin his blood in their veins wuz torn
from his lovin grasp by the stronger hand NV
disease, and wusnt with a copper for any
purpus.
The Democrisy bekum alarmed. The in
defatigable leaders whispered: The niger
j fadin away i-sposin he becum extinck ~
Whereupon consultation Nv the head men
wuz held. In view Nv the crisis, pair-one
male and one female, wuz selected and exam
med by committee nv expert examiners in
life insurance companies. They wuz pro-
nounced perfeek specimens-entire sound
and free from disease. These two wuz locked
up I'M room in a healthy locashun, and
twenty four of the most eminent PHYSICIANS
Nv the country wuz detaled-one 10 stav
with them wun hour NV each day, that, in
case the disease struck EN-. the remedies
might be to-wunst applied, that, from these
two the race might be propagated, and the
cappytle nv the party be preserved
But all to no purpose. The last niger in
the loonted States persisted, and, finally
these two wuz struck, and notwithstanding the
precautions adopted, they too died
There was a season Nacher sympathized
with the party in its afflicshun The heavens
wuz clothed with leaden-colored clouds,
athort wich, ever and anon. flashed CLEANS
NV loorid lite. Low-voiced thunders mutter-
ed ominously. and burds and beasts run howl
in o'er the fields Dray horses fell dead up-
on the stony street, and wild beasts rushed
frantickly from their coverts, and snapped
els At. -bo.
way.
The last Nv the Afrikins were lawn pros
trate in the hall. Fernundywood entered.
and, ez he seed EN-, he bustid into tears.
Farewell, gushed he, "a long farewell. last
nv cussid racel You wuz our tower nv
strength; you wuz our corner stun; on VOC we
bilded Hatred NV 700 Civ me the Irish vote
nv Moo York. ., how cheerin it wuz to see
them lambs bust yer heads, and innocentlv
hang 700 up to lamp posts. But yo m gone
-yo IN gone-and hentz4th life's a blank to
me. Farewell vain world for wat is life
without niggerpi and seizin a Jack knife he
saw sticken out of the nigger's pockit. he
stuck 1t into his stnmmick, and fallin across
the deceest Afrikins expired peacefully.
Franklin Pearse approach. "Alas and
art thou gone? Too troo, thou art. In life
thou wurt lovely! Twas thou alone. that
made me President; thy wooly he'd wuz nv
steppn-s stun to place and power Thou vast
my right bower, my left and ace IF wuz
democratic Sampson, thou vast the hair
wleh the De!iler, Death has sheered OFF
ternandy, | kun p? | kumi'' and seizin the
jack knife from his hand he plunged it into
has bowels, fallin across Fernandy.
Nailandygum approacht II. too. must
say farewell sed he, kissing their cold fea
lures, Tor thou vast my anker. Thou. twast
"ho made me Congressman-thou exiled me-
ana nate NV tSee gave me $50, 900 in ten cent
pieces when wuz in Canady. Do want to
20 10 congress agin No! no, no | shood
pe oumo, Tor the main spring NV my elokence
hes mere and takin the lack knife ba i'm
mersed !: in his bowels, and fell across
Pearse. '' 'e' across
Old Jeemes Bookannon, and yoarbaass
ana bri,e, and Florence, and. in fact, ali Tho
ieauers NV me party, North, to the number
NV sulnih over 20o, kun up, and. each maxim
snort orashun, stuck themselves with ,ha
JACK KNIFE, fallin across each other. as cerd.
WOOD is piled Finally | felt Il q dootr
owed to the party 10 ioller SCOT. Seez;n Tho
jack KNIFE made my orashun WITCH r,as
tecnen and was about to sever NV in,ss'
tmes' wnen seed quart hottie s.ick;n an,
ed the cork. Glory it wuz whiskev, Pun Pun
sucks and 1t waz gone-the room snnn ro,,ra
and fell senseless on the top NV the pile nv
ded Democrats. p'te Nv
jest then Horns Greedy cum in. "Bebold
Democrisy,'. sed he. 'sez II wnz IN tha b.
glnnin, SO it is in the endin. N;ooor - ~
bottom, whiskey at the top, and !. Sink in , ,he
middle and, holdin his nose. he shanbia -
out of the room. ''''eu
awoke In cold sweat. happy to find tho,
4 wuz only dream that the nipoer all
lived IN all has eussitood, and that we still had
suthin to 60 OIL sun ''ed
r4Ass PErRoLEuA Y. NAsRv
Lat Faster Nv the Church NV the Moo lie.
pensation. ~ D's'