American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-05-30
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but we will mukzle his mouth. Blessed be
| Moses
lie shall pick our cotton; bat the hire
| he receiyeth he shall stick in his eve
WITHOUT injuring the sight thereof. Bles.
sed be Moses!
He shall toll in the sugar mill, but the,
sugar shall he not SELL Blessed be Mo-
ses!
His sweat shall nourish our corn. but.
he shall eat nary ear thereof. Blessed be
Moses
We will burn his skool houses, and des.
| troy his spellin books for shall the negro
be our superiorD; who shall stay orr
hand Blessed be Moses
The skool teachers will We tar and
feather, and whar is the bloc koted hire
Inns to make us afeerd ? Blessed be Mo-
ses
We looked at the bigger, and said, ha /
ha. the last state NV the chattel is wus
nor the fust; for before, We he'd his labor
vile he was strong and healthy, but he'd
to take care on him when he was sick and
old; aud now we kin git his labor with-
out the care. Blessed be Mos 60
The Ablishnists cast out one devil, and
garnished the room, but there wuz seven
devils more stronger and hungrier wich
rushed in, and preempted the premises.
Blessed be Mosesi
But our song Nv JOY was turned into a
wall Nv anguish.
Moses sought to hist the serpent, but
the serpent hir1sd him. He's on pole,
and the bitin North wind il BLOWN onto
him. He can't get up any higher be-
cause his pole amt any longer, and he
can't get down because he amt no place
to light onto.
He vetoed the Bills, and Congress hez
vetoed him, the Civil Rights bill they
passed in uncivil manner.
Now bein the nigger hez rights, he is
| our ekal. Our ekal is the nigger now,
| and onless the skool houses is burned, and
the spellin books destroyed, he wilt soon
be our superior.
We WIZ willing to give Hmm the right
Nv bein sued, but alas he kin sue. He
kin be witness agin us, and he can set
his face agin surn. Our wise men may
make laws to keep him in his normal
speer,. but Nv wat avail is they.
We kin buy and sell him NO more,
| neither he nor his children. The men
| will cleave unto their wives, and the wo-
men 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,
we pocketin joyfully the price thereof
They have become sassy and impudent,
and say, go to, are we not men p I babe
one git orf the ssde walk, and he bade
me be damned. chucked nearly whie
one under the chin and smiled unto her,
and she squawked; and her husband
heain the sqaawk thereof, came up and
bustid my head, even ez white man wud
hev dun. | chastised wun, who gave me
lip, and he sood me, Caucasian, for as
sault and battery, and got IA judgment.
Waie for Moses put out his hand to
save us these indignities, but hiz hand wuz
to weak. We killed Linkin in vain.
Our Moses is piayin Jaxon. He fanci-
eth he resembleth him becos his inishals
is the same. He resembleth Jaxon much
ly-in that Jaxon had policy wich he
Good carry out, ond Moses hez policy
wich he can't carry out. And sz he can't
carry out his policy, the people are carry
ing it out for him. Wich they do hold.
in it at arms length, and holdin their
| noses.
Moses is a cake half baked ,---he is hot
on one side and cold on totler. He darsn't
let go nv Ablishnism, and is afeerd to cum
to US. He hez been takin epson salts
and ipecac, and one is workiu up end the
other is workin down.
| Where kin we look for comfort Do
we turn to the people2 Connecticut an,
swers. 'Ror for Hawley, and New Hamp-
shire goes Ablishun. Do we turn to the
courts? Lo! Taney hez gone to his re-
ward, him who aforetime dealt out DIM
ecratic justice, and who understood the
nacher nv the nigger, and Chase, who. is
pizen, reigns in his stead. Raymond is
| grown weak in the knees, and Doolittle Is
broken reed on which to lean.
We are to short at both ends. Shell VIC
90 to BrazilH 10 there they put niggers
in office
| Mexico holds out her hands to us but
| To- there the nigger is considered man.
We have no escape from the Etheopion,
he is around us and about us and on top
ov us.