Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-10-04
mr. Aa>by Suggests Psalm Of Sadness for
his Friends S0uth.
SAINTS REST. (Which Is in the stait NV /
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NooGersey) sept Y, ISIS.
The utter and ahgect stait of kusSitood
+ fn2 wich the dimocrisv find thercSel -es,
I North and south makes day nv fastin
.arprorlit IF the Lord : ever goin .
help u. now's his time
/ Ef my cIcrikle brethren Nv the church
South beside to appint day Of fastin &
prare. I submit the folIerin as a sam nv
( agony, approprit for the okashun:
a SAM " AGONY.
On the street see a niger
On his back a coat NV bloc and he car
rvath a sauskit
lie is Provo Guard, and he halteth me
ez gun he in orthority
And nv IOIer dorter spit en- him, ard
To-, Le sfresrid her, and she languisheth
III yiie -uard house.
nv svas dwell on him, and my sole is
"a artssizn veii av sa-it gusheth with
greef
For that Niger ~ur Kay nigger!-I
hoa-at him with = price.
Alas that niger j. ent ef hiS Dorma'
condi~br. ne Is s. STAR out Of its spcer-
which sweepe1h thra 1he pclicikle hevenS
-maef.IE thfn@s
Normally he was wuth gold ard silver
now he Is "a uiteuare.
Wuust was rich. ana that Niger was
the hasis thereof
We i gae owned him, sole, body,
muscles. <iuoos blood. boots and hriehi~
rS< iutelek wuz mine hi, ho3y wuz
mine iikewise hls labor and the froots
thereof
lis wife wuz nine, apl sbe vas my
conkeAinc
The normal results Of the eonkehina@e
s,l5. combining rlea~ur' and profit in
eminent degree.
And On the price thereof played po>
kar. and drank mint @or'ers, and rod in
ror.us ehariots, and wore parple and
tine Iirer every day.
Wuz this mjscegenashun OF Hi-sar
quality Not any For she was mine.
aven as nv OK or my horse, or my sheep,
and her increase was mine, even as was
theirs
Ahli~hn miscegenashun clewotcs the
niagcr wench to his level-I did il for
gain. which degraded her muchIy
And when the wife Of my huzum lifted
up her voice in complain5, sayin. "I.o, ]
nun alused--,hjs little Niger resemhIeth
rhee II halfthe price Of the infant chattle
wood buy a dirnund pin with which to
stop her yawp
And nv boys foIlered in rv footsteps,
and CRATE wuz the mix, but profitable.
Rut my dream is bustd.
The Niger /, free, AMI demands wages
for the work ov his i,anis.
Ills wife Is free and she kin beside
whether she'll cleave to her husband, or
I ne my conkerbine.
! Yesterday bade her come to me, and
/ jol she remarkt TO way white man or
/ / bust yer he'd.
4 And code
Her children are free-thcy are mine
likewise hut can't sell EN- On the block
To the highest bidder.
Therein Linkin sinned-he VIOLATED the
highest and hoIiest instnks Of our nacher
he interpo~cd a proclamashun atween
father and child
We took the heather from Aireka, and
wuz maxim Christians nv sm. No I'M
him who stopt u in our mishnary work
II i written Kin the Ethiope change
his skim" wuz a chanGin it for him
and nv fathers, and we had mellered
down to a brite yaller.
Dark Is my fueher.
I o5cve3 the CRATE Law Of Labor, ez
served in the army hv subst!toot-no"
she'll hey TO stane my hands with laber
or >tarve.
In what am | better than northern
mudsil
| kin Sit no more dimund pins for tn
wife nv my buzm. and she yawPeth con
t.nyooaly.
Arravd in humspun she wrastles viii
rars and kettles in the kitchen.
5 Weighed down with woe, she dips snui
in silence
SL,ts mo oo;ufort-wat kin ] say