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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1872], The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby... embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings; likewise his views of men and things; together with the lectures Cussed be Canaan, The struggles of a conservative with the woman question, and In search of the man of sin. With an introduction by Hon. Charles Sumner. Illustrated by Thomas Nast... (I. N. Richardson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf635T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
To the Churches: A calamity hez befallen us! Lee is A WALE! Lift up yer voices mournfly, O my people! Howl, O ye saints! howl like unto the hungry wolf and the Cry out like wun who hath a great pain — like him who suffreth Cast ashes upon yer head, O Fernandywood, and clothe yerself Hev another colleckshun taken up, O Vallandigum, and pay Weep and wale, and gnash yer teeth, O Dimokrasy, for yoo For the biter hez bin bit; yea, the strong man hez bin overcome. Grant, who wuz to hev bin whipt, wuz not whipt; on the And Lee, him we sot our harts upon, hez bin beaten, and And Beast Butler will take Richmond, and will not be hangd,
And the Confedracy will be strangled, and Linkin will be Uv wat avale to us wuz Fort Piller, or Plymouth, or Red For in Virginny hev we bin chawed up egrejis. And our week-kneed wuns, them ez wantid peace last month, Wale, ye saints! For we hev chained ourselves to a corpse, and the corpse Die, O Micklellan, for yoo woodent sell at the rate uv a dollar Thou, too, O Vallandigum, for yer marterdum woodent win. Steel viggerusly, O Fernandywood, for it's yer last chance. For wen the grate South fiddled did we not alluz dance? † Petroleum. I am well-nigh distractid! For forty years the Dimekratik “My jentle frend,” did wun uv them remark, scanning my “Verily am I,” sez I. “Well,” sez he, looking at my nose agin, “ef yoo wuz in my I mite start a grocery, but ef the Dimekratik party expires, In my old age am I bereeved. Petroleum V. Nasby,Paster uv sed Church, in charge.
Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1872], The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby... embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings; likewise his views of men and things; together with the lectures Cussed be Canaan, The struggles of a conservative with the woman question, and In search of the man of sin. With an introduction by Hon. Charles Sumner. Illustrated by Thomas Nast... (I. N. Richardson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf635T]. |