The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-10-03
NAEBY.
HF. Resby Suggests a "PsaIm OF sad
ness'' for His Friends South.
LFrom the Cincinnati Commercial.

From the Cincinnati ComnerciAL
SAINTS REST (Wich is the Stais of Moo !
Gesy) September IL, 1865.
The utter and abgect stste Nv cussitoot
into wich the Dimccrisy find theirselvel
North and South, makes day Nv fastin
approprit. Kf the Lord ia ever goin &
help us, now's his time.
IF my clerikle brethrin Nv the Churcl
South beside TO sppint day Nv fastin anC
prayer, submit the follerin ez 8 sam u,
agony, spproprit for the occasin:
A SAM Nv AGONY.
On the street see Niger
On bis back coat Of bloc, and he car
| Tyeth muskit.
He is Provo Gard, and he halteth me c;
one hevin authority.
And my tender daughter spit on him
and 10 he arrested her, and she languish-
eth in the gusrd-house.
My eyes dwell on him, and my sole is 9
srtesisn we'll Nv woe; it gusheth with
greet
For that niger was my nigger IL
bought him with price.
Alas THAT Niger is out of his normal
condishun, he is star out of itss speer, which
sweepeth thro the politikle heVens, smash.
in things.
Normally he was wuth gold and silver
now he is nitemsre.
Wunst was rich, and that niger wus
the basis thereof.
Wo is mel IoWned him, sole, body,
muscles, sineos, blood, boots and brichis
His intellek was mine; his body Wuz
mine, likewise his labor nd the froots
thereof.
His wife wur mine, and she was my con-
kebine.
The normal results of the conkebinsge I
sold, combining pleasure and profit in a
eminent degree.
And on the price thereof played poker
and drank mint gooleps, and rode in gor.
gus chsriots. and wore purple and fine
linen every day.
Wuz this miseegenashun or nigger
equality? Not sny. For she was mine,
even as my OF, or my horse, or my sheep,
and her incrsase was mine, even as wuz
theirs.
Ablishen misc genashun elewates the
Niger wench TO his level-I did it for
gain, which degraded her muchly.
And when the wife of my buzm lifted
up her voice in complaint, ssyin, "Lo, I
am abuzed-this little nigger resembleth
thee half the price of the infant ehsttle
wood buy dimund with which to stop
her yswp.
And my boys fOllered in my footsteps,
and CRATE was the mix, but profitable.
But my dream is bustid.
The niger is free, and demands wages
for the work Nv his hands.
His wife is free, and she can decide whe-
ther she'll cleve to her husband, OF be my
conkerbine.
Yesterday I bsde her come to me, and
lo she remarkt, "Go way, white man, or
1 bust yer he'd"
And code.
Her children are free-they are mine,
likewise but can't sell 'em on the block,
to the highest bidder.
Therein Linkin sinned-he Violsted the
holiest and highest instinks NV our nacher;
be interposed proclamsshen stween father
and child.
We took the heather from Afreka and
wuz maxim Christians Nv 'em. Wo to
him who stopt US in our mishnary work.
It is written-"kin the Ethiope change
bis skin p I was q changin it for him, I
and my fathers, and we had mellered il
DOWN to brite ysller.
Dark is my fucher.
obeyed the CRATE Law Nv Labor, ez 1
served in the army, by substitoot-now
,hel hev to stsne my hands with labor or
ltarvel
In what am 1 better than Northern
mudsill?
I can git no more dimund pins for the
wife of my buzum, and che yawpeth con-
tinyoosly.
Arrsyd in hum.spun she Wrestles with
pots and kettles in the kitchen.
Weighed down with woe, she dips snuff
n silence.
She asks NV ne comfoTt-what kin 1
Isy, whose rockits contsne only confedrit
ikrip.
Save us from Massachusetts, wieh is ornery
and cussid.
Protect us from niger soljers, wich is
grinning feends.
Shelter US from the ghost Nv old John
Brown, wich is mRrchin on.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Lait Pastor Nv the Church of the Moo Dis
pensashun.