The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-29
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r,~ht The Disadvantages ~ the Pc.
triarchaI system.
fFro,n The Toledo Blade, December al
per orsts. CoyFEDERlr < RoADs,
fw;ch i in the Staff Nv Kenticky,)
December 10, 1885.
baerd. nearly two months ago, that my
ola f-;snd John Cutie, NV Nobel, he'd de-
parted this life aud gone to that other and
better world where the wicked Geese from
troublin and the weery are arrest, and wuz
profoundly shocked John futile wuz my
friend, and much fear his Ike ne'er shall
look upon aein He wuz Democrat NV the
Oil skooI. one NV the few hnka wich remain
ed TO connect the present generation with the
nast Well do remember the gellonous old
mani How often hey / set in the square
room in his country residence, and drunk
vhiskey and water with him till We neither on
US Good see hole thro a forty foot ladder
how many times hez he logged niggers for
nv amoozement, to show me the proper way
ov managin NV em and how many times hez
be lent me small sums nv money, varyin from
FIVE to thirty-one dollars, akkordin to the
state Nv mellerns he wuz in when approach.
ed him on the delikit subjik Alas poor
John Cutie Let not the skoffer say that |
regret his death, becuz his sons will be apt to
try and collect the notes the old man departs
ed holds Wv NINE! No! no they know me
too well to waste any time on that. mourn
becoz | loved him, and becoz nv the misfor-
tunes which druy him to prematoor grave.
A. Linkn is responsible for this dark shad.
der onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his plantashens and
in his house in town-these wuz wrencht
from him BY the Proclamashen and turned
N0ut from his pa'ernal care to starve, wich the
Most NV EN- are industrously doin at about SO
per day. lie he'd EN- NV all hues-there wuz
the full-blooded blacks the disgussin Muatter,
the pleasant Quadroon, the beautiful Octo-
room, and them which he'd SO nearly lost the
cuss of Ham ez to be hardly distinguishable
from the pure Caucashun, and it wuz notice
able that the nearly white niggers on the
Gutteses plantashup wuz all beautiful The
Gntreses themselves wuz perfeck specimens
Nv manly beauty, and it probably had its ef.
feek upon the blacks. The Niger is a imita-
tive animal
1t wuz this robbin nv him nv his property
this overturnin NV the normal condishn NV
things-wich killed John Cutie. He never
held up lis head after the Proclamashen, bu,
faded away like frostid flower
! wuz in Nobel last week on biznis con-
nected With our college Git was solsitin funds
to endow my PROFESSIONALLY, and felt that |
Good not leave the city without droppin a doz
en- teers or SO onto his grave. | felt ez he
he'd Contributed at various times SO much to
moisten my clay, that it would be uugentle
manly not to do suthin toward moistenin hiz-
zen. And in pursuance Nv my resolve, |
wended my way sadly to the cemetery, and
6ndin the tomb, struck an attitude of despair,
and leanin pensively onto the monument,
strove, to the best Nv my ability, TO weep, but
it was futile endeavor. Ny eyes woodent
give down. strove to recall his virchoos,
but sich is the weakness NV human nacher
that, whenever his form rose in my memory,
my mind involuntarily wandered to his whs>
Ky. and my mouth would water to SIGH an
extent ez to nonopolize all the moisture In
my system. / Good have spit onto his grave,
but weep | Good not. Alas for poor hu
mainly
While wuz standin there tryin to weep,
and maxim bad Est Nv it, | noticed three
beautiful young ladies approachin, with bass
kits NV hot house flowers a hanging onto their
arms recognized EN- to wunst. They wuz
John Guttle's daughters. and they wuz COM
in to strew towels onto the grave their
paternal ancestor on their fathers side. 1t
wuz a techin site, and feelin that wuz : in
trooder, not bein a blood relashun and only
connected with the deceest by notes Nv hand,
| withdrew q short distants. Skasely had
they got to the tomb when from the other
side approached three more ravishinly beau
onto their arms. The last ones resembled in
q strikin manner the fust ones ceptin they
wuz a shade darker, aud their hare waved
bootiful, whereas the hare Nv the fust wuz
perfectly strate.
The two parties faced each other on oppo.
site sides NV the toom, and party Number One
glared fisrcely at party Number Two.
Lie Flora Jane y sed the oldest Nv
party Number One. Wat are you doom
here?f
s.Sisters,. sed the eldest NV party Number
Two, we're hear dischargin fllyel dooty
Beneath these sod lies the remains Nv our
father, and we are going to strew these flow
ers onto his toom. Jine us in the strew.'
"Father?' shrieked the three nv party
Number One. 'sYoor all niggers and WIZ
servants unto"
"Our half sisters sed the spokesman Nv
party number two, tsbut Linkih removed the
cuss NV Ham, and we re now free and hev ez
much rite 10 strew the grave Nv our common
PARENT, which wuz John Cutie, ez 700. Obi
our sisters our father wuz good man-let
us bedew his grave with our teers and
swat impudence!ff shreked party number
one, all in korious.
"Impudence yoorselfl'' retorted party
number two, gettin red 10 the. face. eve
are John Gutle's daughters precisely ez
much ez you, and the only advantage voc
hev over us in the article NV mothers. VOC
,b,,.a hev wun, witch wuz John Guttleses wife,
while We ttia,rae heY three-one apiece egg,
sacsly-wich wuz John Guttleses servants,
hut we can't nevertheless, stife our emo
shpus. | shell command myself, and thus
nerceed TO perform act of fllyel dooty. =
And she histed ont the flowers and com,
menst to strew. -.
The tother wuns wuz a gettin hot. The
oldest wun Good stand this impudence NO
longer, and droppin her basket, went for her,
followed by her sisters. 1t wuz a spersted
conflict. aud lasted perhaps fonr minits, OF
until / parted 'em, when they gathered
themselves together, and departed-one par
ty went one way, and tother, tother.
Ellyel love he'd done more in the strewir
biznis than it sot out tv do. The six loyir
daughters of the deceest John he'd not ONLY
strewed flowers onto his grave, but hair, ant
collars, and buzzum pins, and shreds Nv silk
and waterfalls, and cotton. aud false teeth
and pieces Nv almost everything wich goe.
IA max. nm the sum total Nv female attire.
~ cszed at the wreck and saw their tat
tered forms vanish in the dim distance,
Good not help admittin that when it come !,
strewin the graves of deceest ancestors Their
wux sum disadvantages attendin the patrlar
PrrRoLEuM v. Massey, p. M,
fWich IA Postmastefi, aud likewise Professo
- Rihlikle Politicks 10 the Southern Cias
.;l,. q ili'sry Inst'to0s-
..,,.>ss ss The Resin Rsasreast.