He is
simple, and needs the guidin hand uv the stronger race.
My hart is too full to make further suggestions. Organized into a
tabloo, with the constitooshun in one hand (wich beloved instrument
kivers a great deal of ground), a scar-bangled spanner in the other, and
a tramplin on a bloo coat wich I stript orf uv a returned nigger solger
wich wuz sick, I exultinly exclaim, "The Union ez it is is ez good ez
the Union ez it wuz. 'Ror!"
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
XIX.
A Wail of Anguish.--The Passage of the Civil Rights Bill over the Veto.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
April 9, 1866.
I am a kittle full of cusses.
Under me is a burnin fire uv rage, wich is bein continyooally fed with
the oil uv disappointment.
And I bile over.
The civil rites bill, wich our Moses put his foot into, we thought wuz
dead.
And we fired great guns, and hung out our flags, wich we laid aside in
1860, and made a joyful noise.
For we said, one unto another, Lo! he is a true Moses, inasmuch ez he is
a leadin us out uv the wilderness.
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