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 longer; and he
cant't get down, because he ain't no place to light onto.
He vetoed the bills, and Congress hez vetoed him; the civil rights bill
they passed in a uncivil manner.
Now, bein the nigger hez rights, he is our ekal.
Our ekil is the nigger now, and onless the skool house is burned, and
the spellin books destroyed, he will soon be our superior.
We wuz willin to give him the right uv bein sued; but, alas! he kin sue.
He kin be a witness agin us, and he kin set his face agin ourn.
Our wise men may make laws to keep him in his normal speer, but uv wat
avail is they?
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 husbands,
and our hand is powerlis to separate em.
Their children kin we no more put up at auction, and sell to the highest
bidder, we pocketing joyfully the price thereof.
They hev become sassy and impudent, and say, "Go to; are we not men?"
I bade one git orf the sidewalk, and he bade me be damned.
I chucked a nearly white one under the chin, and smiled onto her, and
she squawked; and her husband, hearin the squawk thereof, came up and
bustid my head, even as a white man wood hev dun.
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