The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-26
from the Tnleto Elaslr

Posr OrrIs. CosrRDnrr X Roar.
WITCH is in the State Nv kentuck
Sept. /, 1868 J
Yesterday afternoon 1t precisely 3 p. ~.
stranger Nv preposessin appearance hove IN
site nv the Post Offs. Wat mean BY Hpre-
posessin appearance 10 he he'd on = paper
DOLLAR wich he'd only been turned uunat.
SIS Mr.. Nasby in p sed be. ..Bnt why
do ash 90 stupid = question? Heven't | =
suGshent knowledes 1t hunan nacher to
read humanity e its SGT forth in the human
face divine. and don't know that there sin,f
but one Nasty? Elm mistake il? Doth
any other man carry that Websterian front.
Hath any other man that eagle nose That
eagle lips2 Hath"
aTbatll do" remarkt l, in alarm, for be
wuz . persimmon above me. "Draw it mild,
my sushin friend, for can't lend you dol
lar ef il wus to save 700
nYoor mistaken he did reply, II don't
want to borrer. | amt on that lay at present
want informashen. come to 700, sir. ez
the Professor Of Biblkle Literatoor in the
Hosshern Military and Classikls Institoot--
81 one who seeks, in classic groves. thatpeace
not to be found in the busslin world outside
informsshen ez to the condishen Of the South,
her wants and expectashens, which perpose
to spread before my fellow citizens Of Injeany
! come, cir, Nv my own accord. My rishun
il private one, and undertaken solely for
the public good. Iwuz commssary in the
| Fedral servis, aud hsv brother who wuz
not altogether uneounected With the sutlerln
department This brother is runnin for Sheriff
/ on the Democratic ticket; the Ahlsshen can
didats for the same OTIS bein the Kernel Nv
his regiment, who prokeored our Dismissal
for trifin Irregularities in accounts and also
fur vat be wuz pleased to term swindlin the
soljers. Wat ] wan, is SIGH a statement W
the feeiins Nv the people w the South ez Will
set 1t rest the SANDERS tho Ablisis.s is cir.
| cula,in regardiD you, wich will publish on
my return. lam acftooated, ez 700 see, by
no personal motives. Speak ~
s4My deer SUR returned /, II approve nv
yoor miShun, and, permit me to ray, 700 hsv
come to the rite shop. But I will put my an
swer in ritin and hev it signed by the leedin
citizens here, that its authenticity may not be
| doubted =
l, therefore, sot down and wrote, aud when
he'd finished, set ont and got signafoors to
the follerin document
CAPTAIN: We perpose in this, to give you
. candid statement nv wat we believe to be
! the pervalin sentiments Nv the Southern PEG.
ple on various rnbjix. Whatever opinions
/ may hev prevailed in the past, on the matter
w Afrikin slavery or the right Nv State to
/ secede from the Yooniun, we bleaveve ex-
press the judgment NV the Corners when We
declare that We count EN- settled by the war,
and We intend to abide by that decision.
When We had been licked out ~ our boots,
and our arms wus twisted ont Nv our hands,
and whom 700 laid urn down, ve cheerfully
gave over our efforts at secession, and sought
to resume our posishen in the Government.
In the sperit Nv magnanimity We permitted
the aholishen nv slavery by Legislachers in
| thu eleckshen of which Ne had no part, ez
| well ez sevral other games nv tina. sort, not
worth while to enoomerate Had onr ack.
shen bin met in 4 sperit w conality, Gil
wood hev bin lovely. The people Of the South
entertain no feelins Nv hostility toward the
Government but they complain that their
rites under the Constooshen, vich they alluz
loved exceptin doorin the time they wuz try
| in to bust it. hev bin withheld from en-.
| The idea that the Southern people are hos
tile to the niggers and wood Cypress them es
they he'd tbs power, is absurd They hev
growed up in our mdat, and we hev bin &C
customed from our childhood to look upon
EN- with kindness. Troo We imported cat o
nine tales and he'd stocks, and niger dorgs,
wich made it lively for EN-, but these were in.
cidental to a patriarkle system. They were
blood Nv our blood and flesh nv our flesh No
Southerner ever sold his own mulatto chil-
dern ceptin when he was short w means OF
he'd more niggers than he wanted. We still
feel the same toward EN-. Ez no troo South.
srn gentleman will ever work with his own
hands, without their labor the lands Nv the
.South wouldn't perdooee to any alarmin ex.
tent Tho races are highly necessary to each
| other, pertickelefly to ne. There must be
sveatin e. well ex eatin in this world, and &C
| long ez We do the estin we are willin they
| shell do the sweatin. In this way we kin ad-
just the relashens w the two races on ba-
| sis nv mutual advantage. Ef given wat we
he'd before, soop.eme control and assenden'
cy, we shell treet the niggers with kindnis
! forbearance and justis. Hare in Kentucky
We hev never bin disfranchieed, and the mig
| ger hez never he'd a vote, and here the Niger
hez that degree Nv kindnls wich--''
At this pint nv read,n the document, an in
terrupshen okkurd. Their wuz yell on the
street md we all rushed to the door to SCI
wat il wuz about. 1t wuz mere nothing
"Sit down." sed |, tits nothin. A niger
and load nv water melons. BE probsbl,
refused to give credit for his melons, and
| thunder, he's down, and the indignant popu
lis is Roin for him. Hero comes his wife with
half the Corners after her Down she goe!
1
| ger strikes the man wat throwdthe rock wict
kuockt his wife down. That seels his fate
Good bye. niger See how genteelly they
rig the rope and how elegantly he awiugs
His body II lie all mouldy in the ground, bu
his sole (ef the prognathous races have soles
will 60 msrchin on.
i but, asked the Ipjianian, now that tb,
mothers brain is knoct out. and the father
hung. wat'il the children do wich sac Q cryir
over the corpss?'
That's noth'n to u.. They are in an alb
normal condishen, and they mus, suffer TO-
the Gins ny ther father Ham wich lookt
Noer when hs WIZ drunk. He'd that nigge
ben content to have lived ez God and Nache
intended him to hev lived, all wood hev ber
well But he must be free, forsooth, and th
is the result He must try TO control his owl
ackshens, forgettin that there is material an
tagoniem atveen the Caucashen and AfrikiI