The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-11-22
YoosIrEp STATES rv A2KRIKY,


To one lot miscellaneous niggers, % in
number, mostly crippled and not
much akkouut, havin bin logd and
chawd by dorgs, and injoored by bein
knockt about the head aud back, dis 9@s
sipiin.n NV en- atsay $500 eaeh........ II 900 90
To one niger gal, Jane, Is years old,
nearly white with bloc eyes and curly
hair, for wich he'd bin offered $4,000
to 90 to Noo Orleans. 100000
To other wenches Nv all shades and ages,
IL In number, averagin cay $500-..... s6,80p. 90
This bill he he'd determined to put in, be-
coz NV this property he he'd bin robbed. Last
mite he heerd Nv the result NV the Moo York
and Moo Jersey elechshuns and he felt that
more yit wuz due him from the unconstoosh-
mel government under wich we are forced to
live. lie wanted pay, notouly for his TWEEN
ty-iour thousand dollars worth NV niger, but
lege interest on the amount, from Emanc,-
pashen to date, incloodin wat he paid to hev
the calculashen made, aud the interest fig
gered onto it, and he wanted it in gold, ez he
considered greenbax jist ez unconstooshnel
ez ernanzlpashen.
Issaker Gavitt remarkt that on behalf NV
his fathers estate he he'd q claim on the on
pressoss. He he'd made out no bill, ca VT,
ez the niger wich alluz did the Gggerin for
his father he'd got to be impudent, and
woodu't do it no more. But be shood get
somebody who Good write to copy Che Dee
kin bill, wich wood anser, ez the two farms
workt about the same No. Nv hands, tho nv
fancy stock his father he'd alluz kept the
most, which accounted for his bein more
bad-headed than the Ueekn.
Kernel McPelter vantid nopay. He wnntid
his niggers. To accept pay wood be to
ncknolege, the rite NV a Illinoy gorilier to res
leese EN-, wich he wood never do. He he'd
one-he saw her to.dar-wich he wood hev
back agn. Her and her husband, wich bed
hin married senoe they wu3 torn from him,
he'd purchist ten akers Nv ground up 5tcsrds
Garrett4town, and wuz a. Twin onto IT. Nv
course, ez the emaneipashun was illegal, the
produx Of their labor sence that time waz
hizzen, Jest the same ez though they re-
NAMED ia their normal eondishea.g The ten
akers ~oodent saake him good, bat they he'd
two children born to EN- senee, wich, of mig.
gers brot any price, wood do suthin toards it,
Bascom perteried to hev government pay
81 ther valyoo, and let en- stay free. I He had
arrived at this conclooshun after givin the
subeck matoor considerasLen. They all he'd
some property nsw-leastways they Good. all
do wal they pleased with their money. Troo,
the he(t Nv the proceeds Nv their labor went
to Pollock for dry goods and groceries and
sca but he bleeyed that they wuz imita-
tive race. Ell So and they followed the egg
sample sot em by their white soeperiors, they
WOuiQ III nuns ltAft INC uclt Nv IL ht nt8 UaT.
He he'd few nv EN- under tranin now and
henotist that they wus better cus,omersthan
the whites, ez they didn't swaller their RASH
ems and tell him to .jst chalk it down.
A sense NV the meetin wuk then taken, and,
majority voted to fust try to redooce them
ID their normal condlshen, and eff that wux
! desided to be impracticable, then we Good,
with still better grace, demand their valyoo
nv the government. sAr.< II s.
"Tes, exclaimed Kernel McPelter, ''snd
for this great work Their is no better time than
met"
And forthwith the entire congregation
piled out, rushin toward the niger settlement
on the Garrettstown road.
Arrivin Ut the settlement, q consultAshen
y wa held Il wuz desided thet Igstoed ad,
Z vance to tie doors nv the houtss md demand
surrendsr, but Ldsclineds Kernel kcPlter
volunteered, and we all awaited the result.
He knocked at the door NV the first house.
"Wha d ye want7' exclaimed a voice.
II want yeo,p sed the Kernel.
eva foah?''
isMy friend, said the Kernel impressively,
.sef recognize yoor dulcet tone yoor my
niger. Four years ago 700 wuz set free,
700 opposed, by Lnkin. bat we've doneawny
with that Come forth and give yoorself DIP;
700 shell, eff 700 60 peaceably, hev yoor old
quarters again and be treated ex nv DID,"
ssGo way, white man, and stop 7oor foolin.
Dis nigsa's IN bed 50.
Break down the doorsl'' yelled the Dee
kin, .'and hev doas with i'll" and rush wus
made. Il
The doors wuz broke down, and in . mint
the niger and his vita, I'D fno child fsn,
wuz ont in the street, bound, and The Ksfnef
he'd the furnitoor packt, redy to take to fis
own house. In the meantime assaults he'd
bin made on. two other houses with rather
different results. Deekin Pogram led one on
the house w a former slave nv hizzenrxASd
eswus disabled byA chssse ~ sshebin 6sag,
and The inborkhd Mger hre1 oHld the
@wisdef< end sw(fs he a Nmby anolhel SGfel
into the head nv the first nan Who come with,
in range. The whole settlement wuz By this
time alarmed, and lites sprang up, and 10
Good hear the click of the cocks Nv muskets,
eelAAAnlp up syfeNibese, AfneA tAex)Dors
Il wuz desided that the attempt 10 re-enslays
EN- be given over for that mite, and carryin
thee l1etin, suhas S1kSuedkx kom loss u
blood, We made our way TO the Corners eei1.
The resnlt demonstrated q ne the iupoS-
t!olnASvvt1e tfs tscsS NM NJ ~ IN 6a5
mony. There u . uatr1l aDaneonism s..