The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-12-05
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Mr.. Nasby Suggests to a Psalm Of
Sadness" For his Friends South.
SAINTS REST, (Which is in the Ssais

EAINT NEST, winch - III tue otalt
Nv Moo Gersy,) Sept. l2,65.
The utter and abgect stste Nv cussi-
TODD into which the Dimocricy 6nd their.
selves North and South, makes day nv
fastin' approprit. Eff the Lord is goin
2 help Us, now's his time.
Eff my clerikle brethrin Nv the chireh
South beside to appint day Of fastin'
and prayer, submit the follerin az a sam
w agony, approqrt for the occasion;
a SAM OF AGONY.
On the street I see a niggerl
On his back coat Nv bloc, and he
carryeth muskit.
He is a Provo Guard, and he halteth
me ez wun havin authority.
Ap nv tender daughter spit on him
and 10! be arrested her, and she lanA
guisheth in the guard house.
Ny eyes dwell on him, and my soul ID
a artesian well Nv woe; it gushesh With
grief.
For that uiggar wuz my niger! bot
him with price.
Alas that nlgger il out of his normal
condish, he's star out Nv its speer,
which sweepeth thrO the politikle hevensj
smashin things.
Normally be wnz wuth gold and silver
nov he is a nitemsre.
| Wunst l wuz rich, and that niger
WIZ the basis thereof.
/ Wo is me I owned him, sole, body,
sinoos, muscles, blood, boots and britchis.
/ His intellek Wuz mine, bis body was
mine, likewise his labor and the froots
thereof.
His wife vuz mine, aud she wuz my
conkebine.
/ The normal results of the conkebinsgs
I sold, combining pleasure and profit in
a eminent degree.
And on the price thereof I played
poker, and drink mint gooIeps, aud rode
in gorgus chariots, and wore purple and
fine linen every day.
Wuz this miscegenashun or bigger
equality? Not any. For she was miDs
even as my OK, or my horse, or my Sheep
and her increase was mine, even as Euz
theirs.
Ablishun Miscegenashun elewates The
niger wench to his level-I did it for
gain which degrades her muchly.
/ And when the wife Nv my busum lifted
up her voice in complaint, saying, "Lo
am abused-this little niger resembleth
thee !" half the price of the infant chat
tel would bny diamond pin with which
to stop her yawp.
And my boys follerd in my footsteps,
and graf wuz the miz, but profitable.
But my dream is busted
/ The niger is free, and demands wages
fur the work Nv his hands.
His wife is free, and she kin decide
whether she will cleave to her husband,
or be my conkebiue.
Yesterday I bade her come to me, and
10 : she remarkt: go way, white man,
or l bust yer he'd"
/ Aud l code
/ Her children are free-they are miuey
/ likewise, but I can't sell EN- on ihe block
to the highest bidder.
Therein Linkiu sinned-he violated
the holiest and highest ins:inks Nv our
nature he interpOsed proelamashuu
atween father and child.
/ We took the hethen from Afreka, and
Euz a maxim Christians Nv 'cm. Wo to
him who stopt US in our mishuary work.
1t is writuu-"Kin the Ethiope change
his skin y l wuz changin it for him-I
and my fathers had meIlered it down to
brite yeller.
! Dark is my f0cher.
/ I cbeyed the CRATE Law of Laber, ez
served ir the army, by substitoot-Doe
shell have to staue my hands With labor,
or starve.
In what am better than a Northern
mud8il?
kin git DO moro dimun Plus for the
wife Nv my buzzum, and she ya~peth
continyeoaly.
Arrayed in hum-spun, she rrestles
with pots and kittles in the kitchen.
Weighed down with Ho, she DIPS SNUFF
in silence.
She asks Nv me coufurt-wat kin I
say, whose poekits contsne eonfedris
scrip?
Save us from MascheWsyts, which 10
oneTy and cussid.
Perfect US from Niger sojers, which
is GRIMM feends.
Shelter US from the COST of John Brown,
which is marcbin on.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
Late Pastur Nv the Chirch Nv the Nog
Dispensashun.
4 wide-awake minister, who, found bis
congregation going to sleep ore morning
before he fairly commenced, after preach
/ ing a few minutes, suddenly stopped aud
-arnlainna Cd MRrothran dis isn,t fir. u