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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.
The follerin sam uv hoomiliashen and agony will be chanted A DOUBLE-BARRELD WALE! — A CRY UV ANGUISH! In the valley and shadder sit we! Job hed biles, but he scraped hisself with a oyster-shell!
Naman wuz a leper, but he dove into the Jordan, and come Sampson hed his hair shingled and wuz weak as watered We hev biles and are rotten with em, but where's the comfortin We hev leprosy, but where's the Jordan to jump into? Our hair is short, and ther's whar our enemies hev got us, Job, and Naman, and Sampson, all together, wuzn't as bad off We kin throw in Lazarus with his sores, and the dorgs a For we nominatid Micklellan and Pendleton, at Chicago, and The ox and the ass is yoked — their heads and tails together. And the team is pulling viggorusly, but instid uv goin Wale! O my peeple, for the ticket wuzn't war enuff, and Gnash yer teeth! O ye saints, for the tickit wuzn't peace We tried to ride two hosses, goin in two different direckshuns, And both hosses turned on us and kicked us. And Micklellan hez no chance — he won't hev the givin uv And Sherman took Atlanta, and chawd up Hood! And Lee wants the Weldon road, but he can't git it. And Governor Morton took the revolvers from the peace men And the draft won't be resisted, and the provo marshels will Wale! For Maine and Vermont, wich wuz tired uv the war, Wale! For our rulers oppress us. They let their men vote
Wale! For the Ablishnists shel hold the orfises, and we Wale! For in the fucher I see no way uv livin but by Why wuz I born into sich a world! Why wuz whisky Micklellan buried his thousands in the swamps uv the The Ablishnists jeer us, and flout us; they wag their heds And we hev gone up! 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]. |