The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-09

Posr 0rTrs, CONFIDENT x ROADS,
(which Is in the Staff Of Kentucky
April IS, 1857.
We are in cotinyooal trouble down here
with these cussid niggers. They are harder
TO manage than pigs. Pig don't express ther
pecoolysrites. Mule comes nearer. Ther
is SIGH method in their obstinacy-such q
willful cussidnis that RELY hey made up my
mind that don't understand EN- at all. They
cuddle up to US ez kind ez bloomin maiden
does to her first adored, and they fling us just
ez natral ez that same guileless maiden does
when number two heaves in site. They be
have well for q season, aperently for no 9TH
err purpose thas to enjoy our discontinue
when they finally throw us. hev bin git
tin suspishen thro me that they amt hall
ez stoopid ez they look, and that, alter all,
we are not fur from the trooth when we say
in our resolooshens that they are ekals nv
the whites. Why shooden't they be? All
why indeed? Why shooden't the nigger boy
witch is now crossin the street, wich hez Dee
kin Pogram feechers ez like sz photogreff,
hev ez much sense ez the Deekin7 | hey
eggsamined into the pedigree Nv that niger,
and khnd that his mother he'd the hAwuesi
and best blood Nv Virginny coursin toomul-
chusly thro her veins-and that stock the Pc
gram mix coodent materially depreciate in
one generashen.
| he'd the niggers Nv the X Roads very
handsomely in tow up to Yesterday. | had
EN- attendn services last Sunday at the meet
in house, aud by private arrangement he'd
EN- seated miscellaneously among the aw,
Jence. Dekin Pogrsm he'd wench, wich
weighed at least $50 pounds averdupois,
etween him and his wife, while four other
niggers ornAmented his pew. Bascom with
slscfity consented TO three, and Elder Gavitt
provided seats for four. 1t wuz pleasin
site White and black wuz aternatid like
the spots on checker board-nggers and
whites spread out together like the fat and
lean in pork, and ez seed 1t Good hardly
restrene my emoshens. There before me
wuz the regenerashun Nv the Democratic
party-there wuz wat wuz to bring us out
NV the valley and shadder Nv death into wich
we he'd fallen up on the high ground NV
othshel life. | preached that memrsble day
from two texts, to wit: " Wv one blood did he
make all the nashens Nv the earth, = and s.All
ye are brethren" and GRATED a movin dis
course demonstrated with great feryency
the loonacy Nv the idea that the Almighty
wood take the trouble 10 create two or more
races when one wood do ez well-wich idea is
slluz well received in this region. All men
form their idea oil the Deity somewhat from
themselves, and never knowd Confedrit
Cross Reader to make two things when one
wood anser. | refuted the theory advanced
by some writers that there wuz more than
one head to the race, by quotin the texts
witch treated Nv the creashen Nv Adam and
Eve, and demolished the Ham doctrine at
site. "Ef,n sed |, "Noer did cuss Ham and
condemn Canaan to be servant UNTO his
brethren, how do we know that our colored
brethren and sistern is the desendents Nv Ham
and Canaan? 1t may be rs for all We know
Is it bis color? Is not black jest ez conven>
lent color ez white?
more SO, murmured Mrs. Pogram half
asleep, 'it don't show dirt
lis it his shape? Oh, my brethren, 1 ain t
q handsome man, nor wood | exactly anser
for model for Apoler Eff beauty, or cum
lness, or shape, or style sto decide the pint,
may the Lord help usl Is it his smell7 Ny
brethren, the New York World asserts that
the niger haint no smell, and eff he hez, Why
shoodent he hev9 Standin under the CONS
mon flag Nv our country, with his hand upon
that magma charta, the Deklarashen, and his
beamin eye turned exultinly toward our nash
mel emblem, the Eagle, shall not our Afrikin
brother be allowed to smell jist ez he choos-
es? Eff smell must be uniform, then let our
Government establish Burow Nv Perfoome-
cry to-wunst. Besides, | take high religious
grounds in this matter. Ell he hez a natural
odor the Lord give it to him. Let us not fly
in the face of the Lord by CONDEMN il
Judge not lest we be judged TIE odor nv
the colored gen,lemen or lady is the odor NV
the Lord-ihe odor Nv yoor unwsshed feet is
yoor own-wich shood stand the highest?
my brethren and sistern, ! acknowledge
that hev not long held these views. hey
showed the common prejudis,. and hev con-
temmed our trends nv color; | hev despite>
fully used them-I hev gone for them,
aud banged them like old boots. But
it wuz beeoz | didn't know them. |
didn't see the kernel Nv meat under the
rough SHELF didn't recognize the glitteIin
diamond in the ebony coal My eyes hev
bin opened. Like Saul of Tarsus. | see a
lite. Sence the passage Nv the military bin
| hev diskiyered many things to tejns too
menshun. hev mostly found out all these
things sence that occurrence. But let us ac-
cept the situashen and bless the Lord that ii
hez resulted in developin exceleBcies where
we didn { expect TO hnd EN-.
There wuz an affectin scene after service
wuz over Deekin Pogram, Capt. McPelter
aud Elder Gavitt shook hands with EN- with
degree NV couality didn expect. Trooy
them are great men. They deveope a d.
gree Nv adaptabllity to circumstances wbiel
1 didn't look for. really bleeve if Id told
EN- that it wood hev good effeck to kiss thu
Niger babies ali around, that they'd done
it. But | spared EN- this. There is such 9
thing e. saying It on too thick.
But atkins wuz spilled The next day. Their,
wuz au cgEtraordinarily heasy mail tina
day. In addition TO the paper Pollock, tn.
1lhGois store keeper takes, there wuz eieh
others aud to my surprise they wuz all d
rected to nggers. " Wat is this thot | Il
myself =. Hev the Ablishnists NV the Nortf
determined upon proselytin these men, ant
are they Il goin to flood this country with
their incendiary readin Ez Federal Of
hcer its my dooty to look into the matter Z
Just imagine my delirious joy at fndin tina
they wuz Democratic papers from Moo Yorl
and Ohio " Thank Heaveni'' seq L. .sOu
people hev awakened sense NV necessity u,
dom suthing, and handed the papers ou
to EN- with impressive words, exortin NV en-
to read EN-, ez they WIZ trooth, and nothir
but the trooth.
| ruther think they read EN-, for from tina
time out they avoided me, ez though heC
the plague. IF | wuz goin down tn,
street, and one Nv EN- wuz comm up, he
cross the street, and the pecooyer expression
Nv his countenance indicated that il wuzn'
my majestick presence which AVID him. The,
he'd loathin depicted on their classick feech
ers. Unable to endoor this, seezed one U,
EN-, and asked why wuz treated thus?
Debility he pulled out Nv his pockt on,
nv them cussid Northern papers, and openil
it, pinted Indignantly to editorial artikie
1t wuz perfoosely headed in this wise,
Shell niggers vote ?-Shel the proud eau
cashen be redoost to ekality with the dis
gustin Afrlkin?-Is this white mans gov
eminent or not7-A meriky for white menp
Sed this Ethiopian, with his fingers on thi
headin, Pears like ez efdah wuzn't jist da
good feelin towards us colored men on d.
part Of the Dimoc' sy of de Norf, dat dal
ought to be. Pears like as dough up dat
wha de niggah amt got no vote, dat de,
don't intend he shell hab it. Pears like, e
Dimoc' sys one ting all ober de country, dar
cussed site oh humbug q goin on dow,
heahiF
Wa, Good say? Wat Good do2 Their
it wuz in black and white, and from paper
whose Dimocrisy could not be questioned
wuz DUN founded. The niger stake,
hawtily and proudly away IN oss -direckshen
while | sneaked off ruthsr sneakingy il
another.
hev one word to say to our brethren i
the North. Yoo'r doublinsour tror, oles. an
maxim our burdens harder to Dear. Wh
cam 700 understand common. sense 1 WI