The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-03-14

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is in the Stait of Kentucky,) I
February 20, 1866.
r notice all over the North the Democrisy
;s a 6r;n Guns. and marchin after brass bands
and bir;n halls for indorsin Androo John
son AZ a sentinel on the watch-tower, l
n tho name Nv suffrin Kentucky, NV
which Stait | am adopted citizen, pro-
test - - r~- r. =. -
In the name of common sense and ordinary
poltike sagassity, protest.
Androo Johnson may possibly be on the
high road to Democrisy, but ez yet what
ashoorance hev we? Am | datin my letters
from "Post Ori6s Confederit Y Roads,"
Hez there bin, as yit, any well authenticated
case NV the removal NV a abolitionist and the
appointment Nv Constitooshun Democrat in
his sted? Not that hav heard NV. Per con-
trary. the Abolishinists- CT wuz APP
pinted by Linkin-are still holdin on ez calm
ez summer morning, without any apparent
fear NV any change atfectn them.
Who paws for the hall? Who pays the
music? Who pays the powder? Dlmocrats
who do scent these post otlises In the distanse
Are thev Ike the war boss in Jobs writins,
who smeled the battle atar off and remarked
ha! hal to the tempest? Let me entreet
SIGH that they kin make better investment
Nv their means.
The cost NV one meetin, put in korn wills
ky, would not only solase themselves, but
start half dozen Aberlitionists on the road
to Dimocrisy.
Men is deceptive. ! have hopes NV Androo
johnson myself, and principally becoz Val
landigum and Fernandy Wood hev hopes
Them huzzards ken smell carrion long
distanse and they are seldom at fault. In
this case they may be. They base their hopes
on Johnson's speech at Washington, on the
22d. There may be suthin in it, but amt it
possible that the stencil which they took for
Dimocriey, and which they sposed cum from
johnson, ariz from them ez surrounded
him
"But" SEE Dimecrat, whose nose, from
long continued lack of supplies, hez softened
down from a generous crimson to CHASTITY
bloc, and who woodent hev a small Post
orhs at no price eff it wuzent offered to him,
''look at the class he spoke to!''
What noncentsi Androo wuz mad There
wuz a mass of bile on his politikle stummik,
which must be got rid uv-he had sum nasty
things tn say, aud II wuz part Nv the eternal
fitness NV things that he shood hev nasty
audience TO say EN- to.
don't propose 10 go OFF into spasms over
the present sitooetion. johnson proposes to
continoo the Freedmen Buro, and hezn't no
noshun OF repeahn the test oath, oruv DRAWN
the military out nv the Dmokratic States So
far as heard from, we NV the South is still in
a staff Nv abieet cusstood. Our habis corp.
uses, which Linkin took away from us, hevn t
been returned, and we are obleeged to git
nlong as best we kin without EN-. | knocked
down small Niger Yesterday for the purpus
NV assertin the sooperiority NV the Caucashun
race over the Afrikn, and wuz to onct haned
e. -. -
high toned and shivalrus members are ex-
cooded from Congris, on the frivolus plea
tina, they wuz kurnels and briggadeer Ginerals
in the Conirderit serviS, and all these out
RIGGS agin Democrisy, Androo johnson, by
permitnn, absollooty approves.
could probably swaller all these things.
/ am Dimekrat NV thirty years standin, and
NV course bev bin ON both sides NV every
poltikie ieuce-the seats nv my politikle
pants is fall nv slivers. But before take
down these things / want to know what | am
gon to git for ii. Ef Androo johnson goes
back on his party and PIECES. he NV course
asks us to 20 back on ourn. In SIGH transac-
tons, where both parties by bein engaged in
1t at all confess themselves ruther low grade
Nv skoundrels, | think it well enough to hev
the consideration paid down.
III Androo johnson wants me he knows the
terms. am his to command, for a conside.
ration ez much so ez is the thousands NV
Demokrats who hey bin for the past week
gittin up Demonstrations But want suthin
to 60 on. When hev his permission under
the broad seel Nv the Post Orfs Department
TO write Up. NJ. after my illustrious name,
| she'll be prepared to wade in. | hev bin
huntln up several resons for supportn him
| hev EN- all ready-I only want this add.
tional one and then | fling my banner to the
breeze. Faith is sed to be the sun NV all
religious systemsAP osr OFFS is the central
hgger in all Democratic creeds-the theme
Nv dreems by night. How long oh, how
long PErRGEuM V. Nasty.
Lait Pastor NV the Church of the Moo Dis
pensashun.