Mexico holds out her hands to us; but, lo! the nigger is considered a
man.
We hev no escape from the Etheopian; he is around us, and about us, and
on top uv us.
I see no post orfis in the distance, no hope for the future.
Hed I been a Ablishunist, so ez to make the thing safe in the next
world, I shood be glad to die, and quit this.
For my sole is pregnant with grief; my hart bugs out with woe.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
XX.
Mournful View of the Situation.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
April 26, 1866.
The work uv death is a goin on. The sakred precepts uv the Holy
Skripters is bein daily violated by an insane majority, who hev
substitooted their own noshens for the safe and pleasant revelashens uv
Holy Writ, and the practices of their fathers.
Cood Noah, when he cussed Ham, and declared that he shood be a servant
unto his brethren, hev foreseen how his cuss wood hev bin disregarded in
these degenerate days, he wood, I boldly assert (and I make the
assertion from wat I know uv the character uv that eminent navigator),
hev kep sober, and not cusst Ham at all.
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