The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-10
Naaly.
From the Cincinnati Conmercia

Ginral Boanerges Pogram, nv Mississppy,
who demonstrated his devoshun to the crate
prinsiples NV constitooshnal liberty by servin
the confederasy as q commissary, wrote me TO
meet him in Washinton. He had jest reseev-
ed his pardon, and the fust yoose he made nv
his privileges wuz to cum to Washinton to
meet me for sonsultashen on the hopes and
prospex NV the Dimocrisy.
Ginral Pogram is fine specimen NV the
ginooine, shivelrus sutherner. Six feet 2
inches in hite, he kin chaw more terbaker,
spit with greater accooracy, and walk uprite
under hevyer lode Nv strate whisky than any
man ever met A unso6sticated child nv
nacher, he scorns the polish and sham NV wat
is called civilization. Never shell forgit
the htenin- glanse NV contempt he dartid at me
when | askt him to qualify his whisky with
little water.
| Ginral Pogram opened by lamentin the un-
timely decease NV so many suthern voters, In
the late diabolikle war Linkin and his helyuns
| made upon EN-.
replied to wuns, that that deficit Good be
easily made up. 4" | hev," SEE |, "bin con-
sidrin this matter. At trifin expenditoor
Nv money the tide of emigrashenen from Eu-
rope kin be turned southwark, and the places
ny yoor slawtered heroes be filed with the
Irishman, the German, the
Liar! theefl murderer! niger steelerl
showted the Ginrel, seezin me by the throte,
and brandishin his cane over me.
Fallin on my KEGS, (formin tablow, the
"Yoonyun ez it wuz,' y | gaspt:
"Why this violence p
ooh, nuthin,'' replied the Ginral, relaxin
his holt; 4" / shell be electid to Congris and
ez l shell hev to mix with 700 Yankees, | wuz
a practisin the old tacktix, jist to git my hand
in agin. Wuz 700 afeerd? Bless yoor sole,
I'VE woodent kill a northern Dimerkrat for no
money-we need EN-. But" continnered he,
{" this emigrashen skeem Nv yoorn won work.
Yer Irishman end yer German wood work,
but they want wages!''
| WALL SEE |, astoundid, not seein wat he
was drivin at
| Can't 700 see," SEE he. "They'd earn
money, they ID save it. Our habits ez expen-
sive, and now that niger breedin ez dun away
with, we can't sell half dozen niggers per
annum, to keep up our expenses. Alas !
(teers sufused his beemin eyes, ez he spoke)
the last niger sold WIZ ez white ez VOC are,
my son Tom wuz her father, and got 81. 500
for her in Mobeel when she wuz l6 | sold
her to the President nv the Suthern Society
for the convershun nv the Heathin knockt
a hundred off the price Nv the gal ON that &C.
count. But to resoom.
The furriner works, and saves suthin-we
won't work, can't sell no more niggers, and
git hard up, and hev to sell land to furriner.
Then, he's OUR EKAL, and wat becomes OF
the anshent shivelry?''
" But, seq / s'yoo he'd the poor whites
among you afore the war. What wuss wood a
furriner be?''
I" Them poor whites wuz pekooyer class
we KEEP EN- coz we he'd to hev EN- to vote.
We allowed EN- TO squat on our lands. never
LOT faar y L., q L.. ~
cheep whisky. When wun NV EN- got to know
too much. we either killed him or sent him
North, keepin among us jest such ez we
wantid. With our poor whites doin our votin
at hum, 700 Dimerkrats doin it up north, and
the nggers dom our labor. trooly we wuz a
favored people
a But who are you goin TO git to do your
laber?''
"The niger
" But you'll II hev to pay him wagis :,
= Not much. The Northern Legisaehers
are passin laws agin Their comm there, 50
they cant git away from us, and Jest ez soou
ez the thrice accused hirelin soliers are with
drawd, our laws is in force, and then wa,
good is niggers contract TO him ? Me-
thinks the Cuss of kanan is still onto him,
Linkin to the contrary notwitbstandin
shell be kind to mine-I shell pay the the abel
bodid field hands S4 per months, mechanics
SO. w coarse eft furriners kin compete with
EN-, and work for less, Wen take EN-, peryid-
ed they II be ez umbe.
The niger was made to be slave. God
Gust kanan and sod he shood be servant
forever. Did He mean us to pay EN- wages ?
Not emmy, for eff He had He wood hev so or
dered our tastes and habits so ez we shood hev
he'd the wherewithal to do it,
| Nasty sed he, pausin to drain the
bottle, and rollin his ize upwards, ~ am the
child nv pious parence, and never, no never
will depart from their faith. God Gust the
niger, and | will do my part manfully To-
wards carrying ont His will Whatever
betides us, the sons Nv Ham must be the
servants Nv the sons Nv Japhtheth. and their
dawters likewise, that the Skripter shell be
| fulfilled
| partid with that crate and good man, my
mind full NV the nearly white gals he owned.
and determined, ere long, to be assistin u,
him in fulfillin that part NV the Skripter.
PETRoLEUN V. Nasty,
Lat Faster NV the Church NV the Moo Dis
| pensahon.