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The contemplashen uv the nigger hez, in time
past, given me a grate deel uv trouble. Nigger
hez to me bin a inkubus—a nitemare. I never
cood see why the species wuz created; never cood
I understand why they wuz put onto the face uv
the earth, any more than toads or other disgustin
obgecks. But last nite a lite bust onto me—I
seed it all!

I wuz low-sperited and deprest. Jeff Davis a
pinin in a loathsum dungun—the English cappitalists
a mournin for their cotton-bonds, and refusin
to be comforted because the Confedrasy is
not—Mrs. Surratt a danglin in the air—military
courts plenty and habis corpusis skarce—the loosenis
with wich peeple put ther munny into 7-30's—
the soljers returnin and goin for constooshnel
Dimekrats, and the ginral demoralization uv Dimokrasy,
all conspired to give me the horrors, and
to add to my distress, the jug wuz out! To avoid
madnis, I took up the Bible, (I board with a justice

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uv the peace, who hez to keep one to sware witnesses
on,) and happend to open at the 9th chapter
uv Jennysis. Yoo know all about that blessid
chapter.

Noer, after the water went down, cum down
from Aryrat, went into farmin, and planted grapes
extensive. One day he took a nip too much, and
laid down with insuffishent clothin onto him. His
2d son, Ham, seed him in that fix, and when Noer
awoke, while his hair wuz still pullin, he cust
him, and his posterity, and sed they shood be
servance forever.

Ham (wich in the original Hebrew signifies a
hind-quarter uv a hog,) wuz the father uv the
Afrikins, and they hev bin slaves ever sence.

I seed a lite to wunst—I realized the importance
uv the nigger. He is the connectin link in
the chane uv circumstances wich led to the formashen
uv the Dimekratic party. He hez kept the
blessid old masheen a runnin to this day.

Observe.

Whisky (or wine, wich is the same thing,)
made Noer tight.

Ham seed Noer inebriated.

Noer cust Ham, wich turned him into a nigger
and a servant.

That the Skripters mite be fulfilled, the

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childern uv Ham wuz brot to Amerika, to be servance
here.

Wikkid men set themselves agin the Skripters,
and tried to make men uv the niggers.

The Dimekratik party ariz for the purpus uv
keepin the nigger down, and that deliteful biznis
hez given them employment for mor'n 30 yeers.

Ez I shet the book I cood not help remarkin,
in the words uv the sammist:

Sposin Noer, instid uv plantin grapes, hed gone
to practisin law, or into the grocery biznis, or
buyin prodoose on commishn, or puttin up patent
medicins—he woodent hev got inebriated;
he woodent hev cust Ham. Ham woodent hev
turned black; there woodent hev been no niggers,
no Ablishnists, and, consequently, no Dimekrats.

Or, sposn all uv Ham's children hed taken
diptheria, and died; the same results wood hev
follered.

Whisky made nigger—nigger made Dimokrasy.
Take away whisky and nigger, and Dimokrasy
woodent be uv no more akkount than a one-armed
man at a raisin.

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Whisky! Nigger! Dimokrasy! O, savory
trinity!

We do n't none uv read the Skripters enuff