The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-05-08
Mr., Nt,8by in the Anguish Of bis
Soul Uttereth q Wall.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS (wich is in the !
Slait nv Kentucky.) April 9, 1865

Under me Is burnin the fire of rage
wicb is bein continually fed with the oil
Nv disappointment.
Aud bile over.
The Civil Rites Bill wich our Moses
put his foot into We thought wuz dead.
And we fred great guns, aud hung out
our flags, wich we laid aside ia 1860, and
made ajoyfuI noise.
Fer we said one unto another, 10 lie
is a true Moses, ioas much ez he is a
Ieadin US out Nv the Wilderness.
The Civil Rites Bill was the serpent
wat bit US, aud he histed it, that We might
logk and live.
Now let US be joyful !
For the Ethiopian is delivered into our
hands bound hand and foot.
Blessed be Moses
We will make him grind our corn, but
he shell not eat thereof.
We will make him tread out our wheat,
but we will -muzzle his mouth.
lie shall pick our cotton, but the hire
he rcveiveth he shall stick in his eye
without injptiug the sight thereof.
lie shall toll IN the sugar mill, but the
sugar shall he not sell.
His sweat shall nourish our corn, but
he shall eat nary ear thereof.
We will burn his skool houses and
destroy his speIlin books, (for shell the
niger be our superior) aud who shell
stay our hand?
The skooi teachers will we tar and
feather, and whar is the bo0-coated hire
Inns to make US afraid
We looked at the nigger and said, ha :
ha the last state Nv that chattle is wuss
nor the fust, for before we had his labor
vile he waz strong and healthy but had
to take care on him when he wuz sick
a0d old, and now we kin git his labor
without the care.
The Ablishnists cast out one devil, and
garnished the room, but there wus seven
devils more stronger and hungrier wich
rushed in and pre- empted the premises
Blessed be Moses
But our song Nv joy wuz turned into
4 vale Nv anguish.
Moses sought to hist the serpent but
the serpent hsted him.
He's on a pole and the bitin North
wind is BLOWN onto him.
He can't get up any higher because
his pole amt any longer, AID he can't
get down because he amt no place to
light onto.
lie vetoed the Bills and Congress hez
vetoed him-the Civil Rights Bill they
passed in an unciViI manner.
Now, bein the nigger hez rights, be is
our ekal.
Our ekal is the nigger now, ind onless
the skool houses is burned and the spell
lin books destroyed he will soon be our
superior.
We WIZ wilIin to give him the right
Nv bein sued, but alas be kiu sue.
He kin be witness a5in US, aud he
kin set his face agin ourn.
Our wise men may make laws to keep
him in his normal spear, but w vat
avail is they,
We kin buy and sell him no more,
neither he nor his children.
The men will Glove unto their wives,
and the wives unto their husbands, and
our hand is powerIis to separate en-.
Their children kin we no more put up
at auction and sell to,the highest bidder,
nor we pocket in joyfully the price
thereof.
They have become sassy and impudent,
and say, GO to, are we not men,"
| bid one git orf the side walk, and be
babe M be damned.
| 3hucked a nearly white one under
the chin aud smiled onto her, and she
sQuawked, and her husband hearin the
squawk thereof, came up and bustid my
head, even as a white man wood hev
done.
| chastsed wun who gave me lip, and
he sued me, CaucashuD, for assault and
battery, aud got a judgment.
Vale for Moses put out his hand to
saveAs those indignities, but his hand
wuz 100 weak.
We killed LiDkin in vain.
Our Moses is playin Jaxon. He fan
cicth lie resembleth him becoz his i1ish-
ais is the same.
lie resembleth Jaxon muchly-in that
Jaxon he'd a policy which he Good carry
OUT, and Moses hez a policy which be
cant carry out.
And ez he can't carry out his policy,
the people are carryin it out for him.
Which they do holdin it at arms
length and holdin their noses.
Moses is cake half bakcd-he is hot
on one side and cold on tother
He darsn't let 60 Nv AblIshnism. and
be is afeerd to come TO US.
He hez bin takin epson salts and ipe.