Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-10
From Punch,
TIL RIGHTS o. A
IA SOUTHERN VERSION OF THEN, IN BLAoH 4
wnITE.)

In the Rights o. Man l du believe, with Washing
ton and Jefferson
But from them ondyipg patriots a pint or Two
differ on:
In their noble declaration they oughter set out
fuller,
That black and white stands oppersite, in rights
as we'll as color.
They'd no resky Abolitionists, a hatchin' revo-
LOTIONS
To upset our Southern Chivalry's domestic insti-
MOTIONS;
If they'd a. know'd such varmint as 10 Greeley's
TRIBUNE 6ggerS,
They'd a. had two declarations one for whites
and one for niggers.
To supply this ere omission is what / du propose
And this 'ere's the sum and substance, pretty
much, O. what l goes tn
White rights is all whites likes tc take; and as for
blacks-(Tm sick O. tbem)--
WAL, l guess their rights, is jest what's left,
when the whites has had their pick O. them.
Or, stoOpin' to pertiolars (.hough it's what l kind
der scorn tu)-
l conclude that chains and cowbides both whites
and blacks was born to.
With this Sigh. difference, that whites was for
their actipe use meant,
Blacks, for suf'rin' on 'em passive, for white
profit or amusement.
ain't nowheres a bigger
Is the innate right of every white to wop his pri-
vatc niger.
And all l doubts is, whether the rights bounded
to his private one,
And don't reach to niggers generally, whene'er
you can let drive at one.
IL course l hold there's dooties that correspond to
rights, Sir,
Tho first belongs to ~niggers, and the second all
to whites, Sir:)
So, If the white exerts his right to cowhide, and
don't spare il.
The correlative tlack dooty Is fur to grin and
bear it.
The white mans right to freedoms wide {. uni
versal natur:
But beyond the Mason-DizOn line the blacks amt
hhilu u 1Nu
In fact, I rayther calkilate, that this side of it,
either,
If nat'ra Justice had its way, It amt wuth a tatur,
neither.
The white he has q heaven-born right to make the
black his chattel,
And cbattels can't be citizens (see Pafendorf and
Yattel y
But in our magnanimity the exclusion we relaxes;
And gives the blacks the rights O. citizens, as far
as payin taxes.
This makes the critters Sarcy, till from inch to ell
extendin,
On the privilege of tax.paying they would hook
that of tax spendin:
And the next thing'll be asking place on the cleo
trail rolls, Sir,
Till at last l shouldn't wonder if they set up
claims, to sOuls, Sir.
mimi,
This declaration I submit for g~in'ral niger Gig
min;
With gradooated puuishments for those who fail
or fal.or-
To begin with tar and feathers, and to wind up
with a halter
~, Blank-a niger born and ~bred-hereby make
declaration,
| haven't no rights to nuthin-name, church,
vote, home, nor nation;
For the blessins Of my slayish state I'm grateful to
my master,
Who feeds ond clothes aud fogs me fust, and then
pays for the plaster.
Should l be so unlacks as fur to sink to free
dom.
And be druv to cast my chains aside, however
much / need 'em,
declare l won't stay in this state, to cut that
~frightful fgger,
That it stand to reason must be cut, by a mis- rable
free niger.
For New England or the Canadies l straightway
will absquatulate,
That on one free niger more them States them
selves they may congratulate
So to pay for their free-uegroism the Abolition
varmint,
Who backed up old Ossawo.omie, and said Their,
warn't no harm int.
T "If cotched at liberty, myself ill.used l do con
slider
If amt took up and cold right out unto tn,
o highest bidder:
y And cheeriully will go back to chains, couhide
:" and collar,
e So help me Gin'ral Washington, and The AL
mighty Dollar"
A young man once picked up a sovereign lynn
in the road. Ever afterwards, as be walked alon,
A he kept his eye fixed on the ground, in hopes o
finding another. And in the course of a Ion,
life he did pick up at different times a good amour
of silver and gold, and when he died a rich oil