The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-01

ant let me remark, sir, that yoof expenencs
has sbovd how falsely We hev bin judged IA
the crooel peisskooters nv the Nol'nJ;2
states. You hev bin met on every lana: .s XIX
nuthin but kindness. Scpthsn 1871 "a.
nv the broadest kind hez 4es1 -. rInr- !
VOC. 700 hev had chaw g -. hottle.
VOC hev had yoor suck oas ~ - srtssred the ,,
yoor nose shows that senc lin aIloved 70
sunny SCUM yoIp 4 oof ides ~ hcspisabls
taste water' Wn' nv deer sir, does tAis 60 70
treatment w.. does this provef Charles
| shown ~ m Instance, or Judge Kelley he'd
sumner, .s Y" nhshus, or other Rapnblikin, ez
bin = s0ch sgeSs, the Outraged 6ouihetn
s % go wood hey billed over and he wood hev bin
.nred 10 pieces. Wat does i prove II
moves faint the flag We object TO 20 much e.
+ 4 me man Who hey bin In the hatif nv
Darwin il. In The banda nj Aconstitoosnes
mel Demossat Is lhe lsme old lag i alla1
wuz. In such hands, rs sussle sounds 10 our
GERS like the crack nv the nigger's NMp, a az
tho site thereof is soothin. For when Ins lss
I rns ii them hsnds, We hunted nisgersI q l.ds.
| its foids in the streets w Hoston' n.y.
that flsg we shot Lovejoy in Anon, .nu s Mn.
Bailey's press in the Ohio 81 Cins,hns Ia
1:aua.. !, aurtion in Washington, and that
nas.s .,sf sym Dol w freefom, vood hev noat
| "a aver he, deck NV every sleve ship nEh
ssslsd from Africa, but for the unjust and 500
;s;dIe laws wich forced the phiianthropisis IN
| Inc biznis to sale under other penants IN yoor
hands. and the hsndsuv siehez you, the nag
is to us the old Gag It waz then, and us 90
cred to ua hecooz under it We ened 30 ssfenese-
things, Thst's Why we love il, ana That q
why we tolerate you with il. He'd i renamed
SIGH We never wood hey raised our banda
asin it. When aich ez Polk and Fillmore
and Bookanon he'd the control Nv Il ~ wuz
satisfied with it and reverenced every stripe
and every mar-tka spesFs he'd that ssruount-
ed il and the staff wich upheld lt--for to us
that flag meant suthin. 1t meant ireeaom inF
us--free trade in nigsers-it meant S.herh
soopremacy-it meant the rite to buy niggens
sell niggsrs-import niggers-expor nig-
eers-fog niggers-hunt niggers. 80 long
ez the flag vuz sich We loved II but wnen
the North dispooted our control nv It ana put
| it in the hands Nv A. LinkH, Aplsnunist,
! Il wuz oar flag no more. Then we felt ifmust
| come down-that its mission wnz endedy and
| that to us il wuz nothin. | fired onto that
| flag. raised my hand agn It and proud
am. Bnt borne by Democrats old style
| De,nocrat-a Democrat who stuck to Us be.
coz he wuz Altered of niger ekality, it is
wunst more the same old flag and we rever-
| enee it. Why then, when 700, carryin this
emblem Nv the nashnn's grander, kin walk
all over the Sonth, where all peece and so
much affecshun is manifested for the flag why
/ do they keep a army to oyeraUe US? Why
/ A interruption here occurred. A shot wu7
| heard, and the crowd rushed to zee wat II
wuz. They returned presently, A funeral
procession of niggers wuz passin thro the
| next street carryin to the niger grave yard
a niger solger who he'd just died Of inlooris
received doorin the la,e onpleasantnis, ar
ex they marched with flag at their head, the
excited and insated popalis had cleaned em
out. Two NV EN- was shot and the preacher
with EN- wuz left for dead. This over, they
returned and the Mayor went on. Sergeant
Bates. | welcome 700 and with you the flag,
too Pettnsvilie.'
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since he
come into the Sonth be he'd bin treated kind
| IT, In some Of the rooral deestriks once or
twice where the people in their delitefu m.
sofs,cation dent read newspapers and con-
sekentiy didn't jist know the objeek Nv kis
carrYln the flag. he wuz went for rather ruff,
but few words conviast EN- that he wuz
sound and il didn't incommode him. He
shood go North and shood report wat be he'd
seen and experienced. He shaod asshoor his
friends and neizhbors that Northern man
Good live in perfect secoority in the South,
withon; fear Nv disturbance, and that
/ There wuz another ruther unfortunit dis
tnrbance here man from Moo ! ork State
who had lived in Pettusville some time and
wuz suspected Nv Yoonionism, wuz in the
crowd and he injoodshiously for hisself
| dropped copy Nv the Moo York Iriboon h.
he he'd in his pocket. Wv course the existed
crowd went for him, and he wuz carried out
III mint. Sergeant Bates pereeded:
The niggers in the rooral distriks ruther
overwhelmed him with attenshuns, but be
he'd no difficulty in shak;u EN- of. Stickin a
copy of The Moo York World in their faces
it. He Good say he wuz delited with his
experience.
The ceremony bein over, the Mayor
mounted his boss and. one band playin Dixie
and the tother the Bonnie Bloc Flag. the
percesshun moved to the town ball. where the
Sergeant wuz interdoost to the principal citi.
zans, incloodin the officers Nv the Ku klnx
Khan.
The affecshnn displayed for the Gag is
rnther teehn than otherwise. | notiss SO
jers in the service nv the late Confederacy,
who kist it in the fervor Nv their devoshun.
4 One man, who he'd served four years in For
| est's command. wept, ez his eyes lit onto it,
and he remarkt that it wuz the hsppiest mo-
ment nv his life {; end lady, the wife nv an
ex-kernel Nv Lees army, whose buzznm WIZ
/ decorated with a pin made from Federal
| soljer's skull. kist thu corner nv it, per.eedn
that it WIZ deerer to her than life
/ left Pettusyile entirely satisfied Our
stump speakers hev now suthin to go on
The flag hez gone throo the South, its folds
hev kist the breeze in every Southern State,
and its carrier heznt bin shot on the spot
onct. We KIN now appel to the people.
He'd q Ablishnist carried it be wood hev bin
shot Can't they see in this the path to
peece? Can't they see how much more it
wood harmonic things eff they wood lie. such
men carry it ell the time Can't they see
that, whereas, there will be q continyooal
hart burnin in the South eff such man ez
Grant hez charge Nv the nashnei emblem,
that all will be lovely and sweet eff 1T is
given into the hands Nv Pendleton? Sech is
the lesson extrakt from Sergeant Bates.
PsTRoLkUM V. NAsBY. p. NJ.