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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.
Under me is a burnin fire uv rage, wich is bein continually And I bile over. The civil rites bill, wich our Moses put his foot onto, we And we fired great guns, and hung out our flags, wich we For we said, one unto another, Lo! he is a true Moses, inasmuch
The civil rites bill wuz the serpent wat bit us, and he histed Now let us be joyful! For the Ethiopian is delivered into our hands, bound hand Blessed be Moses! We will make him grind our corn; but he shel not eat Blessed be Moses! We will make him tread out our wheat; but we will muzzle Blessed be Moses! He shall pick our cotton; but the hire he receiveth, he shall Blessed be Moses! He shall toil in the sugar mill; but the sugar shall he not Blessed be Moses! His sweat shall nourish our corn; but he shall eat nary ear Blessed be Moses! We will burn his school houses, and destroy his spellin The school teachers we will tar and feather, and whar is the Blessed be Moses! We looked at the nigger, and said, Ha, ha! the last state uv Blessed be Moses! The Ablishnists cast out one devil, and garnished the room; Blessed be Moses! But our song uv joy wuz turned into a wale uv anguish. Moses sought to hist the serpent, but the serpent histed him.
He's on a pole, and the bitin North wind is a blowin onto him. He can't get up any higher, because his pole ain't any He vetoed the bills, and Congress hez vetoed him; the civil Now, bein the nigger hez rights, he is our ekal. Our ekil is the nigger now, and onless the skool houses is We wuz willin to give him the right uv bein sued; but, alas! He kin be a witness agin us, and he kin set his face agin Our wise men may make laws to keep him in his normal We kin buy and sell him no more, neither he nor his children. The men will cleave unto their wives, and the wives unto Their children kin we no more put up at auction, and sell to They hev become sassy and impudent, and say, “Go to; are I bade one git off the sidewalk, and he bade me be damned. I chucked a nearly white one under the chin, and smiled I chastised wun who gave me lip; and he sood me, a Caucashun, Wale! for Moses put out his hand to save us these indignities, We killed Linkin in vain. Our Moses is playin Jaxson. He fancieth he resembleth him, He resembleth Jaxon muchly — in that Jaxon hed a policy
And ez he can't carry out his policy, the people are carryin Wich they do, a holdin it at arm's length, and holdin their Moses is a cake half baked; he is hot on one side, and cold He darsn't let go uv Ablishnism, and is afeerd to come He hez been takin epsom salts and ipecac; and one is workin Where kin we look for comfort? Do we turn to the people? Connecticut answers, “'Ror for Do we turn to the courts? Lo! Taney hez gone to his reward— Raymond is growin weak in the knees, and Doolittle is a We are too short at both ends. Shall we go to Brazil? Lo! there they put niggers in Mexico holds out her hands to us; but, lo! the nigger is We hev no escape from the Ethiopian; he is around us, and I see no post orfis in the distance, no hope for the future. Hed I bin a Ablishinist, so ez to make the thing safe in the For my sole is pregnant with grief; my hart bugs out Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun. * In a speech in 1866 President Johnson claimed to have been the “Moses” of
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]. |