The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-23

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witch is in the stat nv Kentucky
OctCker IA, 1866.
/ WAS called in haste to Washington to be
present u = GAbinek msStm cGahdao e1nAsmei
the causes Nv the unparalleled loosenin nv
the Nashnel Union johnson De0ekFahc pes-
" in the various Etatss wich held elections on
the 9TH nv Octsbsr last. Thea NaE sswarn,
Wells McCulloch and Randall present, but
we missed Raymond and Beecher, they heyan
! understand, played on onto rs.
Pie President WIZ gloomy. be hedn'
anticipated the defeat. He spected that hev-
in showd hisseH through ali the Northern
stafes there ought to hev ben enthOosiasm
enough evolved to hev carried them without
trouble The fault he remarked cocdeut be
with his policy. Their wux suthing 30 grand,
so sublimely simple in II, thGt Il wux incoR-
prehensible TO him Why the people hsdn't n
once adopted it. s'Why look NJ it, sed he.
II offer the people nv the North peace, on
the simple condishun nv sayin nothin more
about the war, or the mutual trouble wich
they found themselves into. and rushin into
the arms Nv their Southern brethren and takin
Nv EN- back JUS, ez they went out. How, oh
how Good they be SO blind ez too refuse th ese
olive branches
Randall replied that he coodn' understand
it, bu, he he'd summoned Postmaster to at
tend. which he he'd appointed on his solemn
nsshoorance that he Good carry enough Re
pnhicans over 10 our new party to defeat the
Union member in that District, wich he mo-
tlst4iy the papers wuz elected by larger
majority then he he'd ever reserved, and he
wuz in waltin.
..f}rany in the wretch. shouted the Press>l
dent and the guard brung nun an A MIA
bic i0ok.n objick he wuz Ez soon as he saw
the stern eve NV the President fixed onto him
he SUNK to his knees and lifted up his hands
implorinly, without sayin q word.
-sSpeak, sed the President, why the re-
suit IL yooF Deesirlk RI Na
s,My hega replied the wretched man, i
know not Faithfully | lAbored. but the peo-
Pile wood come into the house holdin' their
noses aud set hoidiB Nv EN- 30 long ez ruz
speekin. wich MT conducive 10 displays
OF oratory. The papers wood publish my
own utterances six months be fore, wich com
fused me somewhat. and the ahiishnists
would read at me yoor speeches wich
coodn akkourt for. | seekeored for 700
sufhin' like dozen votes, but they WIZ them
ez stipulated for places under me and he'd
hard work TO get EN- from the Union party,
and they were sieh ez did us more harm than
good. And besides
sEnuffi sed johnson, remove him.
And the poor fellow wuz bundled out
Secretary Welles knowd wat wuz the mat
ter 1t come NV iakin Grant and farragut
along on the excursion II distracted the
attention NV the people He'd there bin no
body but the President and the Cabinet along
there woodeni hev bin nobody to hurrah for,
and the sublime trooths wich the President
KIN only Jerk ~ood hev impressed the people
more than thew did.
Seward wuz confident tina; the election
wood hev bein all right Good It have bin post.
poned ninety DAYS, while McCullech a,tri-
booted It 10 the limited knowledge the mas
ses had nv Inieady bankin.
WIZ rekested to give my views, vich
did.
''Ny lords" sed l. 'inone nv yon hev gos
the nee. We wuz beet because we LEFT the
land marks-thst wat allied us-wuz the
ansheul landmarks. Wat he'd we to 60 into
this canvass with? Democrisy ? Not any,
for that wuz squeiched at Philadelphia Wat
then? Why the offises. Offices in the ab>
straci rs good. ] hat little one winch ] hold
in Kentucky coodent be indoost to part with
or no account, bu; VOC cant run 3 party on
en- because there ain l enough Nv en-.
My iiege. on nv return from the Phiia
delphia Convention, tarried awhile in Berks
county. which is IN Pennsylvania and Is dis
tiuguished for the unanlmity with winch they
vote Democracy. 1ney learned down there
NOR II SIX weeks ago TINT the war WIZ over,
and therefore you eoodeut stir EN- up on
drafts Taxes they had got used to, and that
didn't move EN-. and SC the speaker was emp
tying school houses by talking Nv the results
NV 6 glorious war, wich they all opposed, end
pra!sln our mutual friend Sewerd. wich they
had Aliuz hated as a Ablishuist and he'd mt
heerd vet that he had iined the Democracy
Wuz il any wonder tina, we went under? her
amt bat one thing left to us, aud that VIE
strangely neglected. Nv lord. why wuz the
NlGGKR not made the central tgrer this year
e. heretofore lie is the capital nv the De
mocracy---its refuge-its tower Of strength.
smoke in Berks county myself. following one
Of them new tangled Democrats who he'd set
EN- all asleep taikln stuff to EN- thas they
didn't understand Mountin the rostrum.
calculated
.sMkN AND BeETHREx no You WANT 70
GAEEy 4 SIgGFE gF
,Noi no'" they answered, straightenir
Ut 70 wRust
. HI. y2a T m nigssrs ior -on}oin iAr 7
,.l,o YOU want laws TO prevent you from
marvin nsggerSS
.'les ves4f
"Do v9a want Ii be marched w to the
polls III those who iel yes how TO vote be
side l. eyer
mol no
"rhen vote the Denekratic ticket" and
they all replied
Eve viii we viii and they did. 7 on
see. vour kxs1ency. the Demekratic mind
isut heiiv enough 10 comprehend them tine
arguments ez 10 consiooshnaiIfy, Ell sefry, ano
when speaker deals IN EN- they suspect has
Dinocrisy aud ieh, shy Nv him. But Niger
Z IN 9
pimekraiic mind 10 be continyooaliy told
that there is somebody lower down IN the
skale-aher desire "a inferiar race, and. there
fore. hev BIN pulhn the niger down toward
EN- for wears. Did you not motifs whenever
we went 1t ON the Niger, we succeeded In
awakenin an en;hoosIasm which, when We
neglected or selected other issues we failed
TO get -
Il - based upon philosophical treoths- Ibe
poorer and meaneT man Is the more anxious
he is to hev il understood that there Is sum
body still poorer and meaner than he Is
Hence VOC motifs that them individooais who
see a 3 cent peace seldom ez not TO know
its naeher. and who keep the tag ct distress
wayin from the seat Of their pant, who. e.
nigeers wuz selling al cent apeeee coodeni
raise enough TO buv the toe nail Nv one, II
the most ardent friends Nv Slavery.
That pitiiul man that just left the pres
ence WIZ not TO blame Tor the result IN hi
Deestrick. He tried to earn his bread. ba
wat Good he do? The Abiishnists knowes
that he was bought with price, and laffe'
al hin-the Democracy, sieh ez voted. We
hev got anyhow. Them as didn't vote no
DO nothin. wu1 the upper class, vich expect
ed the otfises themselves and was disguise
accordinly,
sMy liege, j hev spoke 700 can't d
nothan with new party, for 700 kin only e.
the Dimocrisy to jine it, and they won't do
onless the ofhses is throwed In. Zoo can "a
the limocrisy on only one issue, and that
the Niger. for it's all they can understand
So long ez the Niger exists, Dimocrisy en-
doors-when the race becomes extinct tn
party dies. The two is indissoloobiy bonn
togeiher-one was created tor tother, an
totner for one When Noah Gust Ham he lai
the foundashens OF Democrisy. Ham WI
turned into a Niger because Noah got IN
tnxicnted: his misfortune originated ~it
wine. and whisky, which is the modern sub
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