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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.
I raise my voice in song. I pour forth melojus notes. I am a lamb, wich frisketh, and waggeth his tale, and leapeth, I am a bridegroom, wich cometh from his bride in the I am a steamboat captin with a full load, a doggry keeper on All these am I, and more. For we sought to establish ourselves upon a rock, but found Even slavery wuz our strong place, and our hope; but the The sons uv Belial hed gone forth agin it; Massachoosetts Wendell Phillips hed pecked out wun stun, Garret Smith And Congris, even the Rump, hed decreed its death, and It passed a bill givin the Niggers their rites, and takin away Sayin, that no more shel we sell em in the market place, Or take their wives from em,
Or be father to their children, Or make uv em conkebines aginst their will, Or force em to toil without hire, Or shoot em, ez we wuz wont to do under the old dispensashun, Or make laws for em wich didn't bind us as well. And our hearts wuz sad in our buzzums; for we said, Lo! But the President, even Androo, the choice uv Booth, said, And the bill wuz vetoed, and is no law; and our hearts is And from the Ohio to the Gulf shel go up the song uv gladness The nigger will we slay, for he elevated his horn agin us. We will make one law for him and another for us, and he His wife shel be our conkebine, ef she is fair to look upon; His daughters shel our sons possess; and their inkrease will In our fields they shel labor; but the price uv their toil shel Sing, O my soul! The nigger hed become sassy and impudent, and denied that He sheltered hisself behind the Freedman's Burow, and the And we longed to git at him, but because of these we durst But now who shel succor him? We will smite him hip and thigh, onless he consents to be Our time uv rejoicin is come. In Kentucky, the soldiers voted, — them ez wuz clothed in
Three great capchers hev we made: New Orleens we Rejoice, O my soul! for yoor good time, wich wuz so long a We shel hev Post Offisis, and Collectorships, and Assessorships, The great rivers shel be whisky, the islands therein sugar, Whisky shel be cheap; for we shel hold the offises, and kin The Ablishnist shel hang his hed; and we will jeer him, and Blessed be Booth, who give us Androo. Blessed be the veto, wich makes the deed uv Booth uv sum Blessed be Moses, who is a leadin us out uv the wilderness, Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun. * The veto of the Civil Rights Bill, which bill secured the negro in his rights
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]. |