The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-04
Letter from Slim.
Penitensharivii in the Stait ov Hock-i,
ooUict 9

ogg1st =
Editur ov the gait Sitty.
As the undersinde is ov unbul but deme.
kratik parunts and not forrin skoler, U will
not expect very sientfiik efushun the ferst
atemp Penitensharivil IL CRATE plais fur
goin fshen, and as was strolen ovur 2 the
sekend iland in a skift (the sekend iland is a
very populur plais fur goin fshen, speshely
neer itz he'd, the thot okknrd NEE that the
naim ov Gaxen B. R. Slim wosent maid for
nuthin, node it wusent maid 2 grais the topp
vurs ov poetreigh kos that he'd bin tride, SO j
konkluded 2 tri mi hand at diskriptiv proze.
Fur the purpus ov not gettin he'd ov mi sub
geckt vii ferst stait the reeders ov the gait
Sitty that / was born at iland number 10, II
yeers the x-is-l0 war, which is gest ovur
komenst. mi urlyest rekoleckshuns IL ov goin
fshen in "a litul flat bote with mi papp and
fallen overbord and havin to swolur bigg
drinck ov ri whiske which soc re-vigurated
me that tuck Bein strong advokate oy still
houzes q a short time aftur KUN out fern
B lever in the graite prinsipuls oy demokrasie.
wos naimed aftur that graite desendunt oy
Pokahontice, Genrail Gaxen, mi other lne-
shals ov b. X. havin bin putt on mi naim
sins this abolishunn krusaid komenst, it
stands fur Breaker Reag, that graite defendur
ov Stats rites and the liburtees ov the pee
pull. On. B. Sum oy mi patryoughtik frens
insist on chaugun il = Boo Regeorde) sins mi
emegrashun to the Stait or Hock-i ION akount
ov the trubuld condishen of mi nativ iland)
hav tride 2 akt in konsurt with the auntie-
negro-sufrig- konsurvatiy elimunt ov the Stait,
hav takun the 9th ov aleguns. kopeigh ov
which kary in mi poket fur futur referens.
am alsough in favur oy munrough dok.rin
4 opposed 2 bein kompeld to marcy a negro~
wentch. these bein mi prinsipuls attended
the Wright mans convenshun at Charlstun
last Saturdeigh, sum ov our bigg guns had a
metin at kla Cuts plais in gait sitty, con
sistun ov Bigg kaf d the httul sedorr, ov
penitensharivil, 4 klagut 4 sum moar
ov gait sitty. tha desided to start urly to
Charlstun. which was dun, arrangements
hayin bin maid hav as menny ov
the fiten men frum muntroz heded
by Beanibowcrs, as possible we arrived at
charlston at urly our L on kouniin nozes
we found we had enuf by taken in charts
ton man hu wanted tu kun in, node him on
mi native land when the shivelry wur thar,
he wos q GUNNER at wattur battrey oy the
shiyelry. introduced him TO bigg kat 4 Sc
dorr, hu war glad u c him. being ol redy
we organized by maiken kaplo Ballingour
our ehareman. hu had bin Second loo 10
aunt in the Seckend kumpani frum Hocki 4
hu maid a gud meny CHAR ges on Smiths
brigge-kap 10 (?) B. is a gud fellough d
Klagut Il bigg KAT will c that he is reaumi-
waited for leavin the negrow worshippers1 we
olso putt in mr. babbkok as Sekratary, flin
uust gind the 18th humpani frum Hock-i, bat
unfortunately his naim wos left of or the
string ov Mains and consequently he diden,
git = B seckend loo To- aunt as the kumpani
dezird-mr babkok kums out boldly & salts
that he never votad fur the negrow worshup-
purs, thew sum Nv them staitid that be dl0
onst, thus organized we proceeded biznes
which we transakted very Speadiley tbow we
wer interrupted by kurnil Manned hilus hu
said sumthIng about waten fur a wagun with
sum soaljurs in it, but hilus cudent pull wuI
over our ize, fur bigg KAT standin at the win
der winked at kap-lo Balunger hu got up Il
stated that he wosent much ov q spealSur 4
kold on Kapl0 Edwurds hu had gust bin over
the tayurn tn Sc about sumthing. he raked
hilus 4 part renals SO that tha left & TUX
sevral disefeckted solgears with them. purity
soon kernul wud l. tomslak with sum raoar
ov the diseffeckted solgears frum Peniien-
shairrvill tride tn hold konwenshun in the
public squair. oy korse tha had fu moar
solgears than we had becos we had kon-
kluded not to hold solgears konvenshn, but
rather wun ov loyal sitizens sum ov the
most loyol men frum Penitenshairril wor
present altho tha didunt stay vury lait becos
tha got thru biznes at urly our. when VIC
furst went out we wos goin to nominait koun-
tie officers but we wos in hurry and kudeni
| talk time, Sins we returned to this plais bigg
kaf and the rest ov the moguls have been
tockin it over with what result / havunt herd.
when du will be hapey tulet no it. Hop
in tn bird as purmanunt korespondunt tu
the gait Sitty at phair sallerary uree patri
oughtik friend GAxES Z. X. SIN
lait ov iland number 10