The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-07
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.. wa;s e ss s: 3 3. Is ss ss:s. a ss
feslin nv onsasiusO wich wus trooly a4ectin,
but when The crHshin insslfeeNce aS0vs that
Holman wus bseten In Moo Yofk thefe wing
psostratioa wich wux Only ekslled when the
intelligence OF Lees surrender reached NJ.
We expected d1fnok il 0linoy, sna Oouo Nv
the other Stats, bat We he'd hopes that Moo
York wood 20 Dimoszatic, 40 hin Rggslency
mite hev some show nv backin BY the people,
and consetently soms sxcoess .tar eeasny-
ooin 70 enforce his policy. Bat that hope
wuz taken from rs, and nv the entire popu-
lAshen 1 wsz ths only one uAo. - aI81Eent
stamina to preserve d. ssmh1Ance Of cheer
fullness, and that wuz only on akkount nv my
hevin the Post O&l Elections eOodeus take
that from met IL rock wich the
waves of poplar indignashen can't wash away
thank the Lord, for ef they Good, how many
Nv US wood oday be holdin our places? Still
l felt overwhelmed, and sorrowfhlly en-
tered Bascom's. There, with their heads
venerable eyes, sot Deekin PoRram, Elder
Skaters, and few others Nv the Santa, Who,
ez entered, Incidentally rose and stood
afore the bar; Mechanically, Bascom, who
wuz likewise bowed down with greet, sut out
the invigorator, Mechanically We dosed ours
selves, and, still in a daze, Mechanically /
moved out without pAyin, Bascom being too
full of sorrer to notisit es38
1t was deemed proper, in view nv the great
calamity, that services shood be held in the
church, and at 2 p. M, witch With as mite
be sed to mean post mortem,) We slow " and
sadly filled in, the only smiEn countenance
in site bein that IVA Niger Ct the door, who
wuz wonst belsid over the head for lookin
happy. -
gave out the hymn:
"Broad is the road wich leeds to DEATH"
and it wuz sung with tetchin pathos. AT,
ter the weepinhed subsidized and / got my feel
ms claimed down so ez to permit me to speek,
commenst explainin to EN- the causes Nv
the result. 1t wuz, sed, chastenin sent
onto us for our sins; a.stripin beeoz wehed
in the possession Nv the post Offices, the col
lectorships, the assessorships and sich, we
had become vainglorious and pulled up, and
careless in performance Nv dooties. There
wux niggers in Kentuckya goin about Free
and impiously settin at naught the DEGREES
nv Providence which condemned EN- to be
servants NV their brethren and heer di
crossed to eloocydate q pint. | he'd seen
stricters In Boston paper onto the common
practis Nv amalgamashen in tae South, wich
paper held up the practis to the condemna-
tionuv pious men. "My BRETHREN, sed /,
.'them Boston Ablishnsts hev no cleer nm.
derstandin Nv the skripter. When Ham wns
Gust by Noar, wat wuz that cuss, he shall be
a servant unto his brethren" Not unto
strangers-not unto the Philistine or the Cir.
geshite, or the Millerite but unto his breth-
rem How Good he be servant unto his breth-
rem except thro amslgamashen Onless we
amalgamated with EN-, how wood the male
niggers be our brethren? Oh my brethren,
we wuz obliged to do these things that the
skripters mite be fulfilled, and to the credit
Nv the Southern people be it sed that they
never shrunk from the performance Nv dooty.
The per cent Nv yeller niggers in this State
attests how faithful Kentucky hes bin.
But to fesoom: We hev ahmed in permit.
tin skoois to come in and unfit EN- for their
normal and skriptural condishen, but these is
not ALL Ny brethren 60 10 Esq. McGavitts
and get the township Bible, and search till
you find this yer tex:
"And no man putteth new wine into old
bottles, else the new wine doth bustAhe bot
ties, and the wine is spilled" Z !.
My brethren, wich is the bottles? The
Dimocrisy, Nv coarse, and the most d. en-
NAV be considered old ones We hey hctid
as bottles, carrying about foods, not pre-
cisely wine, but the modern substitoot there
for from our earliest infancy WITCH is new
wine? The Ablishinists wich follered j Johnson,
NV course. New wine is frothy--so wuz they.
New wine 6zzes-so did they. New wine
hez strength for a minit-so he'd they. New
wine is unreiable--so wuz they. At Phila
delphia, the putin Nv this wine into old bot
ties wuz accomplished-at that sceursed
place, anshent Dimocrisy wich believes in
Ham and Hager, met and fell QUITO the next
nv Seward and Doolittle, wich invented Alb
lishinsm, and we mingled our teers together
the new wine put into the venerable
old bottles nv Dimocrisy, and notwithstandin
we hooped it withFederal patronage it busted,
and great wuz the bust thereof: and the frag
ments NV the bottle wuz prone onto the earth,
and the new wine is runnin round permiscus
So wuz the Skripter fulfilled.
And my brethren, while YOU are at the
Squires huntin up that tex, keep on till 700
find another, to- wit:
mo man also sewe,h piece Nv old cloth
onto new garment, else the new piece that
filleth it up taketh il away from the old, and
the rent is made worse
Ny hearers Democrisy went to Philadel>
ply in SCOT of gray, wich il had been 1t he'd
boa wearin for five years. 1t was trooly old,
and Their wuz greevious rents in it, made most.
ly by bayonets and SIGH. Oh, why wuznt We
content to wear it7 Why wuz We not salts
fed with it? Agin wuz the skripters fulfilled?
We patched up the Confedrit gray with Fed
eral blue; we put onto the back. Seward;
onto the knees. Randall; onto the shoulders,
Cowan, and onto the seat. johnson. and they
wuz stitched together with Postoffisis. But
it couldn hold. The sk1pters wuz fulfilled
the old cloth wuz rottfA, and one BY one
patches fell off, womewhsk dirtied, md takin
with EN- dart Nv the old, and che rents IL
bigger than before. Oar coat il busted 1t
L .-c G.. kkokx
toms, ont q the knees, and from behind the
flag Nv dNtrees wavssh drearily in the cold
wind.
NV brethren, we will succeed when we
stick to our integrity. Wat wuz the yoose
Nv our assomn what we did not hev? Wat
wuz the sence Nv our askin our people to
vote for Kernels for Congris, wich had doorn
the war drafted their sons? Wat wuz the
yoose of talkin constitooshnel amendments
to men who spozed that Internal Improve
ments and Nashnel Bank wuz still the ishoo?
Wat wuz the yoose Nv lettin go our holt on
niger equality, wich is the right bower, left
bower and ace nv the Dimocrisy, its tower nv
strength, its anker and eheefest trust, and
witch is easy of comprehension and eminently
adapted to the Democratic inteleck, and ia
kin up questions wich will all be settled ten
years afore they begin to comprehend en-
In breef, wat wuz the sense, my brethren,
in putin new VINE IN OLD D0tties-uv paschln
old cloth with new9 Let US be warned and
never repeat the fatle error.
The congregashen dispersed somewhat sd.
", but ez they gethered at Bascom's to dis.
cuss the sermon, wuz grat6ed at observin
q visible improvement in their temper. Bas-
com hisself husseled around lively; Deekin
Pogram remarked that probably it WIZ un-
skriptooral TO put new wine into old tubs, but
ez he didn't hev an ice that the prohibishen
extended to new whiskey. he'd resk it, bust
or no bust, and he pixened hissef very much
in the old style, and Elder Slather and Ker.
mel McPelter so far recovered their sperits .,
to hang the niger menshened in the BEGIN
in ez looked pleased at the church. The
Corners is rapidly gethn itself agin.
PETRoLEuN V. Massey, P. M,
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