The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-08
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Merry---A Terrible Mistake and Its
GoneeqMe neea.
Writes II the Telcao Bhda,l
Posr Orrs. CosytDsssl x Hobs, j

Merry-s-A Terrible Mistake aAd ii
Consequences.
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Writes fef the Toledo Bhde.I
Posr Orris. coSsfDssa11 Iso1bs, ]
(wich is in the Staff nv Kentucky,
Dec. %. 1867.
Mhen the Almighty madsniggsra heAuet
to hev maas1em 10 that iaiztn With me S0ufs
rior race wood hev bin an impossibility. Th
Demoerisy nv Ohio for niggera, hez, be
tween EN-, left me in q condishen wich
haId!y supposed shood ever 6nd myself h
! rite those lines, propped up n bed nj m
boardln house, my face beaten to jelly an
perfectly kivered with stiekin plaster; M
nose, alluz the beauty and glory Of my face
is enlarged to twiet tie fair proporshcns; m
few remainin teeth hev bin kn6ekt down 10
throst, my lips resemble gausages, my hi
ear Is forever no more, and vat little hai
waz hangin about my venerable temples i
gone; my head Is ez bald ez blizzard bail
and twict its normal size, Ii come abou
thus:
There WEI trouble in one Nv thu sonther,
counties nv Ohio. In reliably Democrats
townships in that county Is settlement Vi
ringers, who, in the old time, ran sway fsoh
kensncky, and seftin there where they coot
itf Nat thcy SdtHS03 VIII. 6HG 1fSl SO IHuCt
swindled out Nv Kentueky's accumulate
wealth Uv course, comm from keniucky
these niggera are many nv them ez nea
white ea they cnn be, One Nv EN- uho car
red with him the name az his master, and, q
he says, father, Lett, 10 ex near Il white mar
CT may be, and ez he married weneh who
WIZ shade winter than he, their children
are jist torch whittier than both Nv EN-. q,
these he he'd three daughters, ranein from, six
teen TO tweuty.
Now, this Lett is disiurber. He had !
farm Nv perhaps 200 akers, aad wuz tax ID
heaey Tor skooi purposes. but his childrer
wuzn Nv course allowed to attend the skool
Noneuy thu Niger children were
lat this Lett got the ice into his he'd thsi
tlere Wlzn't no prorriety IN bis payin taxel
Without euioyin some CIV tie benefits arix;n
from EN-, aud aided and abetted BY the other
niggeEs, who we're wicked enough to com
plain NV payin taxes TO The support Nv white
skools, he sent his three daughters to the
saoa, directin them to present themselves
boldly. take their seafs quietly, and study
psrseyerialy. They did so. The skoolmarm,
who wnz young hnzzy, with black eyes and
material earis, from the State Of Moo tiata ~
sEsar Were ipeJ petsekoot the saints, not
Galy assented 70 reseeyin EN-, but very joy
tally game en- seals and put s.n into
classes-think Nv that-wilh white children
There wux trouble ia thai township. Iwux
lent for 10 wunst. and gladly come. | suz
never so gratifed in my lille. Had small pox
broken out in tia, skool, there woodent hey
bic half The eggseitement 10 ths township.
ltwcz the subjIck Nv yooniyersal talk every
waere, and the DemoerisJ wuz . biiia hka .
pot. met he l7assess Nv The township, and
demanded Ell they intended tamey to submit
4 al. T II -
tended to hsp Their children set side By side
With the descendants Nv Ham, who wua con
demued TO a posishen w inferiosty forever
hia you, askt SO degrade yourselves. and
90 blast the self respeck OF yoor children !
Aad hilin Up with indignashen they al.
sweFed s.neverl' and yoonanimousiy re-
quesed ne to accompany EN- to the skcol
house. that they mite peremtorily expel these
diseustin helms who he'd obtrood themselves
among those ny q superior race.
=. r. way TO me skooi house, wich wuz
perhaps mile distant, | askt the Board ef
they knowd those girls by site. NO. they
sepiida. tley heu never sesd EN-. II Ler biz
told. !" sed !. '.that they are nearly white.
They are sed one nv EN-, quite white.
1T matters not sed !, feelin that thare
waz good oppor,oonity for improvih The DC
cashen, '.it matters not There IS Euthio in
the Niger at which tho instink Nv The white
man absolootly rebels, and from which il IN
ainktiyely recotls, SO mueh experience heg
| had with err that III. re II aask room
With ore nv en-. no matter how little nigger
there s in EN-. ard that unerrin instins wood
betray en- TO me, wieh By the wag goes to
prove that the dislike we hev to EN- is not the
result w prsjulis, but is a part nv our very
nachers and one w its highest and hottest at
trhccts.'
Thus eoramauin, we reached and catered
the skool house. The skool u,arm WIZ there,
ez hrite ard ez crisp ca a Janooary morning
the skelers waz ragged on the seets. Q
studyin en- rapidly ez possible.
Miss" sed |, I'VE are informed that three
niger wenehes. daughters US one Lett nig-
ger, is in this skool, minglin with our
daughters ez a ekal. Isis SOY
alhe Misses Lett are in this skopl," sed
she, ruther mischeeviouslyi land am happy
10 state that they are among ny best pupils. :
Miss" sed I stern'y, npIsr IN or TO
rsl, 1855
awLerefase - aea sic.
THAT we may bundle em out s. sed l..
sBess me.'' sed she, ssreely coodsnt do
that Why expel em9
"Beeaz,s sed |, mo niger shel eon.ami~
nate The white children Nv this deesiHek. No
such disgrace shall be put onto en-
sWell,' sed this nggravaiin sknol mann,
wich WIZ from Moo Hampshire, "put EN-
out ~ &
aBut show me wich they are
sCan.f you detect en-, sir7n Dom their
color betray EN-? Ell they ara SO nser white
that 700 can select EN- al glance, i. ssEl.es
.pe that iteshst hars Very much TO let EN-
stay,
wig sorely puzzled. There Want ! girl
in the room VINO looked at 81 niggeEy-s But
my repu.ashun wig At stake. Noticin three
girls settin together who was sen,ewhst dafk
compleetisl, and whose black hair waved
went far EN- and showed them OF The eassid
6Eos.l uiartn einosi Dustin With isfter.
Here The tragedy okseryed. At the door
| met ,nsn Who rode four miles in his zsal
to assist rs. He he'd aiinz he'd an itchin to
pitch into niger, and Ell be Good do it nov
safely he proposed MOTTO lose the chance.
wuz putin on em out, and he'd iist dragged
EN- to The door when 4 met hin enterin.it.
swat is this?' sed be, with . sarprised
lock,
I'VE re pati;ng out these eassed venehes.
who IS con,a,ninasin yoor children and mine. =
sed /. .sketch hold Nv thar peaooiyerly dis
gnstin one yonder," sed !.
sWenches! Yen id skoundrel, Msa girts
Is my c;ris.s
And without waItn Tor expianasneD, the
infooriaitd monster sailed into me the skooi
n.arss~ayin over on one nv The benches eK-
pfodia ia peefs NJ latter, the like or Thseh l
never heefd. 1hs three girls, indignant Of
bain mstook for Niger vsnches, assisted
fheir parent, and between en-, in abont four
minutes. wnz insensible. One Nv the trns-
teea, plying my woes, took me TO the nearest
railroad sta.hen, and somehow, howl knew
not got home, where AN at present re-
coaperatin.
II ev only to SAY that when / 20 on sich >
trip again. shell require as condishens pre-
cedent that the Atrikins to 30 put Ont shei
hev enuff Afrikin into en- to prevent sich
mistakes But, good Lord, wat heveni /
suffered in this calse?
PETRoLEua v. NAsur. r. H.,
wich is Postmaster.t
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