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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
The utter and abgect state uv cussitood into Ef my clerikle brethrin uv the Church South A SAM UV AGONY. On the street I see a nigger! On his back a coat uv bloo, and he carryeth a
He is provo-guard, and he halteth me, ez wun And my tender daughter spit on him, and lo! My eyes dwell on him, an my sole is a Artesian For that nigger wuz my nigger! I bought him Alas! that nigger is out uv his normal condishn; Normally, he wuz wuth gold and silver—now Wunst I wuz rich, and that nigger wuz the Wo is me! I owned him, sole, body, muscles, His intellek wuz mine, his body wuz mine, likewise His wife wuz mine, and she wuz my conkebine. The normal results uv the conkebinage I sold, And on the price thereof I played poker, and
Wuz this miscegenashun, or negro equality? Ablishn miscegenashun elewates the nigger And when the wife of my buzm lifted up her And my boys follered in my footsteps, and grate But my dreem is bustid. The nigger is free, and demands wages for the His wife is free, and she kin decide whether Yisterday I bade her come to me, and, lo! she And I gode. Her childern are free—they are mine, likewise,
Therein Linkin sinned—he violatid the holiest We took the heathen from Afreka, and wuz a It is written—“Kin the Ethiope change his Dark is my fucher. I obeyed the grate law uv labor, ez I served in In what am I better than a Northern mudsill? I kin git no more dimund pins for the wife uv Arrayd in hum-spun, she wrastles with pots and Weighed down with wo, she dips snuff in silence. She asks uv me comfort—wat kin I say, whose Save us from Massychusits, wich is ornery and Protect us from nigger soljers, wich is grinnin
Shelter us from the ghost uv John Brown, wich Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T]. |