The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-09
From the Toledo Blade, July alst.]
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is in the Stat Nv Kentucky,) 7

July %, 1856.
Ny dreams, NV wich hey he'd many doorin
the past five years, hevent bin overly pleas
ant, indeed they hev taken more the shape NV
hideous nitemares than anything else-Lin-
ken, Grant Sherman and armies dressed in
blue fgurin extensively therein. But last
mite he'd a vision wich more than repaid me
for all hev suffered heretofore he'd bin
at the Corners assstin in inauguratin new
grocery. The proprietor Wnz demoralized
Ablishnist, who he'd sold likker surreptitious-
ly in Maine, among them Ablishanists, and
Consistently he'd no idea nv the quantity a
full grown Kentucky Democrat Good throw
hisself outside NV. His entire capital with
which he proposes to commence bisnis wuz
one barrel Nv new corn whisky and some 9TH
er necessaries, and ez starter to make the
acquaintance Nv his customers, he announced
one free mite, and invited the entire commu-
nifty. His invitation was considered generous
and we met in the same noble sperit
in more nobler sperit than the
con6din and ignorant man desired, in fact,
for when We got through, in about 38 minits,
there wuz'nt drop Nv whiskey left, and
while the new grocery keeper wuz a rolin
nv us out he was cussin hisself for fool
lie did mt open again-he consoomed his
stock in trade in giving the blow out to seek
customers. His stock, like A. johnson $
Uniouism didn't survive an inaugurashen.
| succnmbed in fence corner, and over
powered ez / wuz, slept.
"A sweetiy dreamin,
Dreamin the happy hours away"
Methought WIZ in Philadelphia and the 14th
Nv August had arriv. There wuz a glorious
assemblage, ez Doolittle sed, Nv the brains
and hearts Nv the country, and may add, ez
| and Humphrey Marshall wuz there, nv the
bowels likewise The Convenshun wuz as
sembln. There wuz Seward present engi
neering Nv it. On one side NV him notist
in my dream shadowy bein with wings dra.
PEEK IN white and wearin melonkoly look,
with one hand layin on his shoulder tryin
to take him out nv the hall, while another
bein, with wings like a bat, he'd him by the
nose and wuz q twistn nv him Jest as he des
sired. ] notist that this last mentioned bein
he'd hoofs which wuz split, and tail which
he wuz tilrtin IN great gee. The bein with
the tail and hoofs whispered suthin ia Sew
ards ear, whereupon he moved that that emf
nent patriot, ex-President Franklin Pierce,
be chairman, upon which the shadowy bein in
white untolded her wings and flew away, clst-
IN at William the most sorrowful look ever
saw, the hooted and tailed lndividooal laugh.
in tremendous. The ex-President took the
chair, and one Vice President wuz appointed
choositts. Ny buzzum swelled with emoshen
ez that list wuz read-it wuz more like an
old fashioned Democratic Convenshun than
anything 1 he'd heard for five long years |
heard the honored names Nv Toombs and
Rhe.t Pryor and Lee, Slidell and Rosso, and
cambridge and Forest heard the names of
Craven and Pollard Thompson and Forsyth,
and felt like him NV old, 'smine eyes hev
seen thy glory, now let thy servant depart in
peace Nothing but the certainty that
wood at last hev that Postofis at the Corners.
kept me from going up. Singler It's what
slender ties hold us to EARTH
The Secretaries wuz apin,ed. and then the
commttees-two on each from the South and
one from the North wuz consiliatn.
wnz PUT on the committee on credentials,
Randall, the Postmaster General, bein the
Northern Representative. We he'd our hands
full. There YVES {, ,1ss made on u.s. so many
ttaimin seats that We locked the doors FOR
tive hours TO decide what shood be the proper
qualification for place. Finally We agreed
TO admit ez Delegates
From the North-All Dimocrnts who had
bin arrested by Linkin's minyuns-all Officers
who he'd resined rather than to serve in
AblisAsn war, and all hlpubhktnz sno food
show cofnmishun ez postmaster aud sioh,
and this wuz considered necessary to guard
solemn oath that he wuz a steadfast bleever
in everything A. johnson he'd did since Jan
ooary, pb leeptin SUN small items which
yuz specitiedl and all he wuz doih, and all
he mite do
FROM THE SorTH.-All who Good show o
officer commission in the late Confedrit ar
my-all who had received pardon from A,
johnson, and all whp he'd lost'their niggers in
an unholy war, which inclooded all present.
This decided upon, the work wuz done.
The delegates took their seats and the crate
work NV Reconstruetin the ioonyun common
oed. Garrett Davis wanted to make speech,
and hall wuz hired for him in another part
Nv the city, and fifty or sixty German emf
grants who coodent understand word Nv
English hired at a shiiln an hour 70 act ez
audience. Five kegs nv lager beer, food,
wich | hev been told Germans tie to, he'd bin
rolled in the hall, and most NV EN- stayed
seven hours and half
In the regler Hall there wuz a comminghn
which wuz edifyin. Doolitile would make a
motion and Nallandigham wood second it.
Forrest made speech and Randall endorsed
it. Seward and John Morrissey were on the
Committee on Resolutions, and Dick Taylor
and Cowap were oecnpyin one seat They
resolved that, Whereas, there he'd bin sss
son Nv unpleasantness in our national history
wich, owing TO circumstances over which no.
body he'd any control, extended over several
periods Nv ninety days each and, Whereas
the unpleasantness resulted from the two sec
tons viewin things trom the others stand
pint; and. Whereas, both parties wuz highly
in the wrong partikeleriy the North aud,
Whereas. the South with a magnanimity I'M
known in history, he'd thrown down her arms,
and was ready TO resoom her old position in
the Government, nay more, to take more
than her cd share Ia lhe trouble NV runnin
the Government; therefore, be i
Resolved, That we are for the Yoonyun ez
it wuz.
Resolved, That the persietency wv sec
tionai Congress in continuin the unpleasant
ness which hez to some extent disturbed our
system Nv Government, IN legisiatin while
eleven sovereign States is unrepreseltad, is
pizen. Il,
Resolved, That we view with alarm the
manifest determination NV Congress to CEN
tralize in themselves the law making power
Nv the Government, and we pledge our sup
port to our worthy Chief Magistrate, who is
a second Jaxon, in his efforts to check their
centralizin schemes by yetoin ali they may do.
Resolved. That all traces nv the late on
plsasantness may be wiped out ez soon ez
possible, we demand nv Congress an appro-
priation for piowin over all the fields on
wich the citizens NV the Two sections who
wuz indoost by their respective Governments,
soscalled, to carry muskets, cum together,
particularly them on which our Southern
brethren got the worst Nv the disputes tina,
ensood.
Resolved, That Congriss shood, ez soon ez
il convenes, change the names NV Murfrees
boro, Gettysburg. Atlanta, Vicksburg, e,
settry, to SIGH names ez Smithboro, Browns
burg, Jonesburg, ct settry. that the serious
unpleasentnesses which occurred at them
places may be remembered no more forever
Resolved, That the citizens the Southern
States wich lost their lives and legs, and sict
in the late unpleasantnesses wich hex been re
ferred to, ought to be placed on the pension
rolls the same ez the Northern citizens who
suffered likewise, aud that the debt incurred
by the South in uphoidin things ez viewed
from its stand pint, is entitled to De paid ths
same ez the debt incurred by the North II
upholdin things as viewed from its. stanc
pint. d ~ aaa a.
Resolved, That We are willin for the saki
nv harmony to admit that Sherman and Gran