The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-10-19
A SAM Nv AGONY.
On the street | see O nigger.

A SAM Nv AGONY.
On the street / sec nigger.
On his back coat Nv bloc, and he
carryeth q muskit. 7" ESQ
He is P3ovo Guard and liz halteth
mo cz one hevin authority.
AHd my tender daughter spit on
him, and 10 he arrested her, and she
languisheth in the guardhouse.
My eyes dwell oh him, an my sole
is an artcsian well Nv woe; it gusheth
with greet. m,f
For that Niger wuz my niggcr!--1
bought him with price.
Alas that niger is out NV his nor
NAL condishn, ne is star out NV its
speer, which swcepeth thro' the pollt:
| ikle heavens, smashin things.
Normally he wuz with gold and
silver-now he is nitemare.
Wunst | wuz rich, and the niger
wuz the basis thereof
Woe. is me! | owned him, sole,
body, muscles, sinoos. blood, boots and
brichis.
His intellek wuz mine, his body wgz
mine, likewise his labor and the ffoots
thef eof. -r4a.r
His wife wuz mine, and She wuz my
fconkebine.
The normal results of the conkebinl
age, sold, combining pleasure and
profit in an eminent degree.
And on the price thereof played
poker, and drank mint gooleps, and
rode gorgus chariots, and wore pur.
pie and fine linen every day. 80
Wuz this miseegenashun, or nigger
equality? Not any. For she wus
mine, even as my OK, or ny horse, OF
my sheep, and her increase wuz mine,
even as wuz theirs.
Abiishn miscegenashun eleHstns
the nlgger wench to his level-I did
it for gain, which degraded her much
y. .i.....
And when the wife Nv my buzum liz.
ed up her voice III complaint, sayin
"Lo, am abuzed-this little niger
resembleth theel' halt the price " the
infant chattle wood buy dimund pin
Sith which to stop her yawp, ~.
And my boys follered in my foot
steps, and crate wuz the mix, but prof
liable. - ,.ea.H.i q
But my dreetn is busted. orr
The nigger is free, and demands
wagis for the work Nv his hands.
Hiz wife IL free, and she kin decide
whether she'll cleave to her husband;
or be my conkebine. Ef
Yesterday Ibade her come to Inc,
and 10 she remarkt, "Go'way, white
man, or l bust yer he'd"
I And l code: AZ
Her e6ildfeti arc freo-thsy air
ffiihe, likewise, but1 can't sell 'em OH
the biloxi, to the highest bidder. 'g,
Therein Linkin sinned-he VIOLATED
the Hottest and highest instinks Nv our
nachet; he interposed d proclahiashun
atween father and child. Ei '*'
We took the heather from Afrika,
and wuz a maxim Christians nv 'en1.TT
Wo to him who stopt us in bur mish-
nary work. -, H..
Ii IL wrltten-aKin the Ethiope
change his skin?' l wuz q chahgin
it for him, and my fathers, and We
had melleted it down to brite yal-
ler..
Dark IL my fuchcr.
l obcyed the grate Law wv Labor,
ez 1 served in the army: substitute
now shel l hev to stane my hands with
labor, or starve. ...
In what am l better than o North
cfh mddsil'
1 kin git no more dimun pins for
the wife ofmy buzum, and she yawpeth
continyooaly. .l
Arrayed in hum-spun she wrestles
with pots and kettles in the kitch-
en-. , y,
Weighed down with woe, she dips
snuff in silence. ...l .s...
She asks Nv me comfort-wat kin
[ say, whose pockits contane only
eonfedrit skrip. !, -.. ,..a..,.,. :,
Save us from Massachusetts,, which is
otnery and cussid. .a,
Protect us from niger soJers wich
is grinning fecnds. .a
Shelter us from the ghost Nv John
brown, wich is marching on.
PLTRoLEUM V. NAsBY,
Lait Paster Nv the church iv>the Nod
DispeAsd8hdh. .sE ..'