Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-11-22
MIR. Nasty Suggests to Psalm of Sad
ness" For His Friends South.
SAINTS REST (which is in the Stait NV I
Moo Gersy,) Sept. II, 65.

ness" For His Friends South.
SAINTS REST, (which is in the Stait NV
Moo Gersy,) Sept. II, Go.
The utter and abgect state Wv cussitood
into which the Dimoericy find themselves
North and South makes a day NV tastin'
approprit. /Ef the Lord is a goin help US,
now's his time.
Eli my clerikle brethrin NV the chirch
South deside to appint day of fastin' and
prayer, | submit the follerin IL a sam Nv ag-
ony, approprit for the occasion:
SAM OF AGONY.
On the street | see a niger
On his back a coat Nv bloc, and he carry
eth muskit.
He is a Provo Guard, and he halteth me
ez wun havrn authority.
Au my tender daughter spit on him and
10 he arrested her, and she languisheth in
| the guard house.
My eyes dwell on him, and my soul is a
| artesian well Nv woe; it gusseth with griet-
For that niger wuZ my Niger L bought
| him with price.
| Alas that niger iz out Nv his normal
/ condish, he's a star out Its speer, which
sweepeth thro the politikle heyens; smash
In things.
| Normally he wuz wuth gold and silver
now he is nitemare.
Wunst | wuz rich, and that niger wuz
! the basis thereof
Wo is me! / owned him, sole, body, sin
COS, muscles, blood, boots an britchis.
His lntellek wuz mine, his bodywas mine,
| likewise his labor and the froots thereof.
His wife wuz mine, and she was my con-
kebine
The normal results of the conkebinage I
sold, combining pleasure and profit in en-
inent degree.
And on the price thereof played poker,
and drink mint gooleps, and rode in gorgus
| chariotS, and wore purple and fine linen ev
cry day
! Wuz this miscegenashun or niger equal
| ity? Not any. For she was mine, even as
my OK or my horse, or my sheep, and her
increase was mine, even as wuz theirs.
Ablishun Miscegenashun elewates the
Niger wench to his level-I did it fur gain
which degrades her muchly.
And whom the wife Nv my busum lifted
up her voice In complaint, saying, 10
am abused-this little niger resembleth
theel' half the price of the infant chattel
would buy a diamond pin with which to
stop her yawp.
And my boys follered in my footsteps,
and graf wuz the mix, but profitable.
But my dream is busted.
The niger is free, and demands wages fur
the wurk Nv his hands.
| His wife is free, and she kin decide wheth-
er she Il cleave to her husband, or be my
conkebine
Yesterday / babe here come to me, and
10 she remarkt; 60 way, white man, or
bust yer he'd"
And code.
Her children are free-they are mine,
likewise, but can't sell EN- on the block to
the highest bidder.
Therein Linkin sinned-he violated the
holiest and highest instinks Nv our nature;
he interposed proclamashun atween father
and child.
We took the hethen from Afreka, and
wuz a maxim Christians NV 'em. Wo to
| him who stopt us in our mishnary work.
1t is writun-''Kin the Ethiope change
his skin?'' [ wuz a changn it for him-I
and my fathers had mellered it down to
brite yeer.
Dark is my fucher
[ obeyed the crate Law Nv Laper, ez [
served in the army. by substitoot-now shell
| rev to stane my hands with labor, or starve.
In what am | better than a Northern
mudsil?
[ kin git no more dimund pins for the
wife NV my buzum and she yawpeth contin-
yeoaly.
Arrayed in hum-spun. she wrestles with
pots and kittles in the kitchin.
Weighed down with wo, she dips snuff IN
silence.
She asks Nv me comfurt-wat kin | say,
whose pockits contane confedrit scrip Save
us frum Maschewsyts, which, is onery and
cussed.
Perfect us from Niger sojers, which is
grinnin feends.
Shelter us from the COST of John Brown,
which is marchin on.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Late Pastur NV the Chirch Nv the Moo Dis
Pensashun.