The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-22


Oh autebelum hab spoke, OBJ days dat ar no
Oh days dat now ar talked about es 'good ole days
Yaas, good ole days I call EN- too--'twas Cen dat
| wus born
SON etimes feel like weepin' when think dat dey
It am de natur Oh de MANN it ise not erlone-
We don't know how to 'Preciate good thing tel its
In Substance it wus tole you dat heah happy race
Oh southern people libed an moved -wid progress
all erpace.
De subJec' mex on which I spoke concarned de
Oh things heah in de sunny souf-,le sunny souf oh
A different pieter den wus drew-'twus dark lnstid
OBJ bright
Dar's no mo zemblance tween de two dan tween de
day an night.
IN proper order mex did come my reason fer de
SAD
An solemn change DAT hez TUX plaoe-a change
De reason wus d at Sambo could not be made 10 do
Ercordin to de contrac dat he mout make wild you
In udder words, dat ofen de cotton an de corn
Would cry in vain for sameo-fer sambo out an
gone.
An now de question risin' mex am whuts de rimi-
Fer ehangin seeh state oh things change dar
orter be.
1t am de vital question, an it should hab no res
IS longs dars IN dis sunny Soui patreotie breas
/ some say dat TO coernize de niger III de wes,'
Like hab been done de In'un, fer de country would
be bes';
But dis am de mos foolish thing The cher heard or
Wheeler reckermended by a Gable or a Green.
| Fer do IsessnO Elijah, jes listen whut ! say
De Niger heah am wid you, an heah he's gwine to
wants ter be wild white folks, don't want ter Ieab
Don't take me way fun white fuIks, or you'll heah
dis Niger squail,
Erboat de mule dat we're so grey. an forty acre
An now on white folks shall pend for all 'speet
Hush telliu' bout yer eolernize; don't talk dat
| thing to
To coiernize Us, in de dark would sholy make US
Dis If am de country for Us. de white man ali our
Ny Tenidee am simpler-quite practercable too.
An il think Orter try, oh Mr.. Green's in lien.
An do wild me yoa disergree, 1 kear rot, mus
Fer all de lawyers tells me oh de freedom oh de
Let Ggrseahar' eOafras's $. fer L1bor. By de lars
| Be ksp ftal 5eis' broken tcido9f a proper oai9s.
To peryent deir vierlation, dis am my remidee,
| ,Jss let De Scl0ls MAKE Il a nisasHleaaqr BE-.
know some oh de white folks think de niggess es
Wouldn't ike de law reckeemend-would bat.
Dat t'wogia drive EN- fun de country, make EN-
seek, TO long,
a home where such Law was not, but, sars, you're
Fer when dis law would show to dem. would short
Iy, sar, disclose
| De sunny SOUL Hdtlb ian Di0UBliH IKE de rose
Not only. would dey stay heah, bat niggers sab,
Fun other States to dis, our state an chos it fur
Fer niggers dey bank on de pot dat holds de nut.
An dey viii stay wi.ar dey can make DER nouf GO
an spose dey didn't Ike de law mus We ali not
Tess
Dat de white folks get de eligenee and orter knov
shell reason glib way unto de VIII fer de shOrte.
while2
shell de wise be governed BY de fool. de parent BY
de chilee
shell idgness reign in de State. de State in which
we lib2
FiIin de jail wid eonyics, an not wild corn de crib
shell gos be made TO do whuts righs. osesd 10 d.
shell such thing es dis. sar, pas. wants ter a.
Ny law would not be partial-ob fairness not ii
'Twonld'piy unto de white man ez .well ez to d.
De euiterystion Oh de groun' 5 de basis as 70.
ob ali de Welt froughout de Ian dat's ioyed b,
below.
, Dis plain an simple fae'-'ny it If you kin,
An erediek get fsT doin dat dat pene hab nebe
Den is be wise an member de good mechanic,
song
sEI you want to make de buildin' las make d,
Web tried de eibil action, an hab toIe you whv
I wus no count wid sambo, an Il you cant deny.
| De law am not its fhsoary-not whut it crser do
But whut il reerlizes. an you win say it too
An when we want TO legislAie, on dis thing or d
| udder,
An IN dat olse Law will not do. should not We tr,
We mus not ac' Ike Rachel, who-her children los
No comfort foun' but while asleep-who woke I,
weep an mourn,
Nor like de little chile dat once, ercordin to d'
t sct down an shed bitter tear oe + milk spilled
fam his pail.