The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-14

tnnts or the Gross Roads Made the
Victims OF Cruel and Hsartless
Hoax.
From the Toledo Blade, Dec. 9Th.
CoyFKpERrr \ RoAps,
witch is in the Stait nv Kentucky !
December Sd, 1886.
never WIZ SO elevated nor never so cast
down in my life ez last mite and the entire
Corners wuz ditto. The circumstances Nv
the case wuz ez. follows. Me and q party ov
friends wuz playin draw poker with Moo
York commershel travler, believe they call
EN-, feller with muxtash and side whisk-
ers, witch comes South talkin secesh and
sellin goods. He made some inquiries about
the standin nv the deelers at the Corners, and
wuz, after sed enquiries. eggs,reemly anxious
10 sell EN- goods for cash. They wanted EN-
on ninety day time, and on this they split
he agreed with EN- In principle-he drank
10 JEFF. Davis. and damned Liukin fioentiy--
but on the cash question he WIZ inhexible
and immoyable. To while away the rosy
hours. q knot of choice spirits, him mcleod
ed, gathered in the Post Orihs, to enjoy a
game Nv draw poker. There wuz me and
Square Gavitt, and Deekin Pogyam, and
Elder Slathers, and the Moo York drummer
We played till past the witchin honr Of 70
H., wnen grave yards yawn and costs troop
forth--when the Moo Yorker saccnmd. His
innocent. unseasoped bowels he'd hin edoi
Gated up to the standard nv Kentucky whis-
key. wich. new ez we drink 1t. is pizen to
foreigners, The Deekin and Elder grabbed
me slakee wich WI. onto tue table, ana rined
MS pockets Oh the suspishen that he wuz
Abishinist and rolled him out, and while in
ths gery act. Pollock. the Ilhnoy store keep
err cum rnshin in, askin us eli we heerd the
the news
4 Il =.
ssIfs, 80 =. trn,,, I4.niaviliA = - -
go - t---~, iie-
jist rode over from the stashen. Louisville
is in blaze w glory
WAT seq /, ..hez Sumner killed Thad.
Stevens anu immeJ.ly committed sooctae
Mary SEE he, '.but johnson and Con
gress hev come together on the basis Nv
vooniversal Amnesty. witch wuz proclaimed
YESTERDAY to be folered by yooniverssl sui
frage ez soon as the South kin conveniently
DO it They hev met and embraced on Horris
Greely's plan
Deeken Pograrn bust into hystericnl laf,
and in his JOS handed me the proceeds uvhis
expicrashen Nv the pockets the Moo ork
er, and like i blessed old luna,ie broke for
the meeting house In moment or two the
bell peaied aorth Its Joyous notes and IN a
mint mons the haii dressed villagers seen
ensergin from their respective demiciles n all
stvles NJ attire. few minits sufficed To make
them understand what WIZ the occasion nv
the uproar. aud mere enihoosiaslle popula
ton newer woke thH ekRos- Aiore hive miu-
lis he'd rolled of INTO eternity. there wuz u
bonfire on ne north side ;ae square, the
sed bonfire Being Niger skooi house. wich
the Freedmen Comnishn he'd erected and
wich oar enthusiastic citizens he'd in their
delirium Nv JOY set IRE to- II WIZ emblem
attic The smoke ez il rolled to the South
eli
branch-the cry wv the niger children wich
eondent escape. symbolized their desertd
oandishn and the smell of them as they roast
ed wuz like unto incense, grateful TO our nos
trils
An informal meetin wnz to wuns organ
lied by the lite Of the burnin skool house. TO
wien Deekeu Pogram addressed hisseli De
remarked that this wuz a solemn occasion,
so solemn indeed that he felt inadekate to
express the feelins witch filed him. His
mouth wasn't biz enough = gre rem 10 ms
soie. rhoagn ef he tiidnst he ID bass swat are
ne met for to-nite nv friends, sed be, swat
calls us together q Wherefore these sounds
ur iov-wherefore this fire, and wherefore
is Baseom sellin liker at half price Becoz
we are neutrality-suspicious. $ what we are.
Becooz the North hez gone into to the olive
branch dizziness again, and We hev wunst
more our rites We are amnesised. We kir
voie-ve can 60 TO tongress-we are asih
citizens nv the great Republic
Pollock, the Iliinoy store keeper, riz and
begged pe-mishiu to say word. He protest
ed agin these doias. He understood akkor-
din 10 Horns ureeieys plan, that yooniverN
sal suffrage wuz to follow yooniversai amnes
tv-whv then this maxim John Rodgerses NV
the niggers9 Nus the South goin 10 act in
good faith?
Deekin Pogram replied: sarhe South
never yit broke plighted faith save when she
Good make suth,n By so dom. Atthis press
ent junkter Nv affairs he presoomad the South
wood extend. not precisely universal suffrage
10 the niger, but thu wev wood lie onsnea Il
them. ssc.. d i.Iass OF ignorance Good never
be trusted with the ballot without preparash>
en- and to prepare them wood be q overtur.
min in the Kentucky theory that the niger is
q beest, and the Northern Demokratik idea
that the niger wnz Gust BY Noer and doomed
forever to he q slave.
Tine gentleman from Illinov will to wunst
perceive the fix wea are in. TheT slni i. ror
slo hsilal AeN, ana Ell we make EN- so it viii
overturn our theory, which we cant do.
Still we propose TO be inst to them. We shell
give such ov EN- the ballot as are sufficiently
Iutelh,ent, and we shel not put the standard
too high nuther We shell give every wun nv
them the ballot who is able to reed the Greek
testament fuen.ly. and pass a credible ~
aminashnu n German, fsnghsn Granmer
sna donLle entry book keepin. The path TO
the polls, YOU see, is open to them. Uv
course we kart be expected to tolerate school
houses for EN- for that wood raise EN- above
their normal condishen. Also, there must
be proper reguiashens controller EN-, for my
deer sir thes are meer infants. and their tot
term steps on the road to freedom needs di-
rec,in Society IL compromise IN which
every one resines ~ mich or has persnel lib
e-.y a. tic aeoa ev the huh may demand.
re count ourselves the hull, and the resinin
or persnel liberty must come from them.
That nigger, SAID he pointin TO one wIch
the ioyus citizens WIZ stringin up TO Bascomt
sign post. ..that niger is a resinin his persnel
liberty for the good ov the hull. No doubl
in his heart he marmurs, and ef the cord thai
i chokin him Good be loosened he wood re
nine. II is rough Oh him, bat the sooperior-
ity ov the Caucasian race must be-My God
It's one Nv my niggersl Stop, Bascori
stop" eiackiIated the neeEia, bat 1t was toe
late Tie uisger waz airedy black in ths
face and he'd ceased to kick, and the Deekir
proceeded:
"we shel scroopulously regard their rites
They shell hev the rite to buy Land, and klr
act in all respects ike as soon rs they XII
be trusted TIL then they will hev votin re
strained. There must be laws pfohlbiten en-
from receivn more than 81 SO per month
that they may not become bloated arissocrat
ana pasnpered sons nv luxury-the prcpe1
development NV the country and likewise thu
payment Of the Confederit debt, requires
manual labor wich we wuz never cdoOcstet
to do, and therefore the good of the hull re
quires that they shell resine their persnel lib
erty, SO fur Is to be confined to the piauta
shens onto wich they hev engaged to iaber
that they may relijusiy doc it, wich is cleeri!
necessary, for 700 see eff hire niager i
Janoosrv, must not be exposed - the chan
ces ov his quisten me in Jooly. Bat xhs
more kin they WANT They ne hSe = Z
grAte extent ~ the good ov secieg vi
permit. We shell give them qualified suniae
fxin, OF courss, wich u jnss. ths qsaai6cash
uns ourselves and beein valoosble membez
ov society, eercafter We shel care for en- .
long ez they are helthy-<sood Lord
Why viii them cnsses perzist in hangin .
able bodied uiggers when there's 30 man