The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-28

grateful to ono in frail helth, hez bin inter
mitted. But that is oil over, thank Heven.
Yesterday morning he como into the of1s
bearin that wich to me is the most blessid
Nv peace offerins, the old familyer jug, wich
settin-down, be fell onto my neck and wept.
tParsonl'' sed he his voice quiverin with
smoshen, and tears chasin each other down
his nose. Its over. I've sinned and hev re-
pentid. Forgive me!'
Glider r. sed /, assoomn = dignifed air,
Tho who departs and cometh back-don't
kick over that jug for the topper amt IN
tite-it 10 to me more precious than II he
hedn't kicked over the traces. Bless 700, my
son. Here's tin cup wich will do.
The Elder then told me how he he'd bin
converted. He he'd determined not to vote
at all. he didn't bleeve in Seymore, COZ he
is pledgd TO pay the debt in greenbax, and
he detested Blare becoz he wuz wunst
blookotid hirelin, and becoz in margin him
We marry the entire Blare family wich is too
much. He didn't blseve that either OF en-
wuz to be trusted. He didn't bleeve that
either nv EN- was troo to the South. Feelin
pekoolyerly bitter, he went to bed the mite
sfore, and nursin his wrath he fell asleep and
dreamed.
He dreamed that he wuz in vast assem-
bledge Nv the Democracy, very like the Nash
mel Gonvenshun. There WIZ shoutin and
holIerin, but he walked about gloomy and
sad, filed with the most fearful forebodins.
Presently in his dreem he approach the
grand stand wich WIZ okkepied by the lead
ers and devoted 10 the moosic ov the the oc-
casion. Here . most pekoolyer site met his
gaze He notist one small but soft toned in.
strument, boiler and very much like flute
evidently made for peaceful stranes, out nv
wich Wade Hampton wuz strainin and
BLOWN the most feroeious and war-like
sounds. The he'd Nv the instrument wuz
Seymore's he'd, and ez he lookt closter he
found it assumed the general appearance Nv
the man. II tried hard to keep the smoothe
melojus tones witch it wuz normerly adapt
ed, but the grim visaged Hampton whose
wind is inexhaustihle, hlowd SIGH strong
blasts and fingered the holes so adroitly, that
it played his toous and his only.
just beside him stood Boregsrd playin
brass instrument wich wuz shaped 80 like
Blare ez to be him, which instrument was
NV the Trombone nacher. Beregard he'd no
trouble with it. II wuz ex discordAnt nacher.
ely ez itcoold be, and il wuz splendidly
adapted 70 the capassity nv the player.
give the dream hensefcrth to the elders
own woIas:
wat III thundcr, Bcd 70 mAn Wich
seemed to be sort nv engineering the con-
cert, sswat in thunder is Seymore and Blare
and SIGH ez EN- furnishin moosic for stfate
Sauthern Dimocrisy for Are We too be COM
PEELED to submit to the tool Nv bondholders
and to Feedral sojers and sicho Es for one
] will never-b
sDont talk like an cggrejis ASS 2 sed this
man. 'sHeven't you any sense? Can't you
see that Seymore and B!are are merely the
instrooments wich are played onto, and that
Boregard and Wade Hampton are the indi-
yidools who furnish the wind and finger the
holes. Listen how gradually Dixie and
the bonny blue flag swells out onto the air
and fills snrroundi1 space And see, es Bore
gard shove out the trombone how il hez
knockt off the stand all them wich from
former attachment to the instrument wuz
close to it, and how sweetly the pizen breth
| which is bein blowed, tho its combined with
that Nv the instrooment itself, hez smother
| ed all them whose presence wood have EN-
barast us. Miles O'Reilly it killed. and all
that pestiferous breed Nv War Democrats
like him are layin, overpowered with it, Fat
onto their backs. They may possibly sur>
vive, but they are so stoopi6ed that they
won't git up till after their opportunity for
hurt'n US is passed.
| "Then, sed the Elder, my dream chang
1
| that We he'd triumphed. wuz to home in
/ Kentucky. All here wuz peace. Tho Buro
offisers he'd folded Their tents like the Arabs,
and silently stole away. The military wuz
withdrawn, and there wuz nothin bloc in
| the South, save and except the faces Nv the
| few northern men wich coodent git away.
] The very air wuz full Nv the COST Nv the ded
| Fedral soliers in the South, all Nv wich wore
| an expresshun Nv hoomiliashen ez tho they
/ felt they he'd bin manufactured into costs fol
very considerable less than nothin. Recon
/ struckshen he'd bin undone, and all laws en-
franchisin niggers and deprivln our heroes Nv
suffrage wuz bustid. We wuz free. Their
he'd bin gineral cleanin out Nv Northern
settlers, carpet-baggers and obstreperous mig
gers. / notist with infnit pleasure that Pol
locks store he'd bin Quilted, and Joe Bigler'
corpse Che he'd spoke this in low tone, and
lookin fearhy over his soulder to make shoor
| no one heard him) wuz lyin on the spare.
Sich Nv the diggers as Good be controlled
| we're at work under laws We he'd passed fol-
EN- regulating labor at the average Nv 81 pc,
month, and sich o. he'd become too indie
dependent for that, he'd either bin shot o.
driven out Of the country. The amendents
given Nv EN- votes and sich, he'd bin overrul-
ed, and in Tennessee and the other States they
he'd bin redoost to their. normal speer, and the
power was wunst more in the hands Nv such
patriots es Forrest, and SIGH. Brownlow he'd
bin hung, Their newspapers destroyed, and
them wich supported en- scattered to the
4 four winds. In the Corners al wuz peace,
We he'd niggers on our plantations % before
the war. and we, the roolin race, was releev-
ed ny tho degradin labor wich so OMIT 1
Caucasian for the enjoyment Nv life TIE en-
tire Corners hevin nothin to do and plenty
j to live on, wuz perpetooally gathering in
front nv Bascom's pitchin coppers, runnin
quarter races, and ever and anon ceasirp
their manly ENDORSEMENTS to qnaff the fowin
boles wich he supplied. We Good hear any
time, the cheerful yelp nv h!oodhounds in the
swamp beyont the Run chasin runaways and
e. tner wuz no longer any Law agin ther
shootin niggers, skacely day passed that one
/ or moro wuz not killed. Ny distillery wuz 4
runnin in full blast, the smoke Nv the tor
ment asssndid from its chimney.
And 10 this to be?'' asked I nv the dis>
embodied spirit w Bishop Poke wich wuz
| shown It to me.
GAN this and kors. . returned Ae. s.Tbu,
viii the South regain her lost rites, Tine
will the lost cor Be restored. Elect Sevmar.
and Blare, and oil will b we'll y
''At this pint awoke. sad the Elder.
sfeelin how unjust he'd b..a -hov vilely
he'd sinned and how fearfnlly he'd departed.
wy aoin back on my party On ths srse.>
back question: Wet IL grsanbAx . Ills?
Vat i rayin debs in ons vay or smother
somparsd to the sxtacy nv wolloping aigkers,
ehastn Northern men and hAsin our instoo,
shens back again. Wat il mere gresnback
ides compared to the luxury Nv hevin the en-
tire Northern Democracy in our hands agin,
for NJ to mould ez Ne viii and do With - -
Ike? Why, | woodsnt give the luxury nv
hsvsn Moo Yorker on his knees afore me !.
~ old, minnit, for al the taxes viii hey
g pay for century. Bssdss, aad As bustid
oes a5resh. ''if Boeeeard can make Seymore
plpe Dixie, can't he also b. different dneerin
make the same instrooment play Repoodia.
snenf lshouid gay 20. We hey EN-. Parson
- nev en-. Forgive mo! forgive msi'