Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-04-04
Select Poetry.
written for the Philadelphia sunday Mercury
TIE PILGRIMS PROGRESS
PURITANISM TO NIGGERISM.

ut p. r.
Once on a time. old books relate.
Bat when, it matters not to state,
There was mighty blow;
Tho lows, with rams horn. strangc ts tell,
Blow such blast that down there fell
Tho walls Of Jericho
Some folks declare that such a feat
II 10 impossible to beat,
But this is all a blunder;
For Abolition, all must own,
Without rams horns, has fairly b,swR
The Union bond asunderi
New II commenced I will relate
II WAS In New England state.
Where men are fond Of cheating:
WHARF apple sass, fish Dalis nbouud,
And park and beans the whole yeat rsuud.
Are reekoned hrst.rato catipg.
With pumpkin pie and Johnny cake.
And of they get up a ELAN bake,
Being fond of roasted clans;
A.peddling notions, too, they go,
Like Satan, rosming to ard fro,
With clocks aud wooden hams.
With nasal twasg and fdce Of hrass,
POI lying more can them surpass,
Or making spurious wates;
No matter whether friends or foes,
They delisetto poke tecsr nose
In every ones affairs.
For half cent they would dsputs
Ap hour--thcy are 50 very cute.
Accent would set them raving;
And though they would sit halt day.
7s vhit,lc n pine log away.
They would not give r shaving.
The country long wi,h-,ocd the slrocs.
For back as far as Plymouth rock.
Us easy now TO trace il;
The facts are sticking out so plain.
Ts rnb them out men try in vain,
Fer no sns osn erase it.
Zach year sonc fools thrir voices rsis.
New hnslnnd's "hlarhoy stone" to prsisa,
Or to it writs soanst
Yet history clearly proves toe true
Thore n+ver was vil-r crew
hdn muse Ntb ttHucu VT u.
Although they would not curse or ,w..r.
FrsH Indians heads the scalPs th-y'd trsr,
Plss women and roast witches;
Besid-s, those prosecuting knaves,
All awnsd, u, wuli IA dealt in slaves,
Porto iacrsa-e their richos.
And woulj havo held them till to-day;
n,,,r
No longer would they hold them;
law for niggers, it appears,
Was made, but stponed sev,rsl years.
Till MI Pilgrim .old them.
Away down south the slaves wers sent
But Mr. Pilgrim not content
Within new condition
For when he had received the pay
Fer all his nisgrrs sent away,
He preached up Abolition.
Thongh every year, chips by tn. ,cors,
He fitted sut Tor hfrc's shore,
More nigsers for 10 capture
And when he had the darkeys sold,
He'd curse the trade and count h, gold
And freedom" cry with rapture.
But while sent was to be made.
He stack fast to the niger trade
Continued to supply them;
Bat what is rather strange to toll.
He thought it very rishtto sell,
But very wrong to buy them.
when he fortune had acquired
BY niggerism. he retired
With pious consolation
Declared the thing by which he'd mad.
His fortune, was hellish trade,
And needed reformation.
Though for reform he daily cried,
And his old customers bclied,
He stuck fast to his pclf,
Like every rogue throughout tho nation,
Who cries aloud for reformation.
But don't reform himself
But Pilgrim could not live in peace,
Nor from mis- niger stealing cease,
In spite Of all his bother;
For he somehow with slaves must deal
go off down south no goes to steal
Ths niger from his brother,
Although he had before agreed
And swore by the Apostles creed,
In spite of all disasters,
n any niger ran away,
He'd sead them back without delay,
Ua,o their southern masters.
But now he proved as clear as mud,
u must be for the niggers' good
To leave the old plantation,
And come up north TO loaf about,
Pick rags and bones, clean foul pools OUT
Get pious consolation.
Thrice happp must that darkoy bs,
To have such blessings and be free,
The Pilgrim eft would utter:
No master now has he to dread.
Moreover he can earn his bread
by pickiugs from the gutter.
Z But why should ! enumerate
How Pilgrim went from > tate to s,ats'
sudiee far me to tell,
with othor raseals he intrigued
who swore the Union was a "lesgus
And covenant with hell"
Thus years passed by, converts were msd-,
And many plot by them was laid
Together in communion
Though often foiled, with might and main,
rhsytned, and tiled, and tried again,
For TO break up the Union.
A. last they by one desperate stroke,
Asun der our old Union broke.
But now they cry amain:
Oh dear oh dear what shall W. dot
N,ma ioin o,ir Al nlition ,,sw