Year: 1861




fourth year of the reign Of James
the third, whose surname was
Buchanan, that a new ruler should
be appointed; for many Of the
tribes had declared that they would
not lave James to reign over them.


2. And inasmuch as the people
of the provinces were much divided
in sentiment, about who should be
the ruler of this great nation, a
portion Of them met together at a
city in one Of the provinces Of the
South, and they could not agree :;
and they separated, the one from
the other.


3. And it came to pass soon after
ward, that the people ofthe North,
who had not had a ruler of their
own peculiar views for many years,
and who were exceedingly anxious
to be fed at their masters crib,
held a great meeting in one Of the
northern provinces, in a city called
in the original tongue Chicago.


4. And it was so, that they chose
man to rule over them, who was
famous in his day, and held in great
estimation; because he lifted his
AK upon thick trees; and on the
sixth day of the eleventh month
the people cast lots, and the lot fell
upon Abraham, whose surname
was Lincoln.


5. And when the people of the
southern provinces found that A
braham was chosen, they became
very wroth; ana it was so that
their wrath could not be restrained.


6. And they said, one to another,
go to: let us separate from the
people of the North; and let us
make a king from among our breth
ren, and let US not bow our necks
to the yoke of northern abolition
ism.


7. For it was so in those days,
that the people of the South
country had servants Of the seed
of Ham-whom they had horn in
their houses and bought with their
money; and this circumstance was
cause of strife for many years,
between the tribes who dwelt in the
North and the tribes of the South.


8. For in the days of George,
whose surname was Washington,
the people of the Northern prov
inces found their climate too cold
for the sons of Ham; and they
sold their brethren the seed OF
Ham, because they were unproft-
able unto them ; and they said, one
to another, let us serve ourselves
with the seed of Japheth-with the
Hibernians and the Gauls; they arc
more near of kin-and will not be
so hard to stbdue.


8. And it came to pass soon after
these things, that the people of the
northern provinces became very
pious they had sold their slaves
their men servants and their maid
servants-and the money arising
from the sale had made them eX-
cecding rich--and certain of their
prophets had discovered that to
buy and sell the sons Of Ham was
the sum of all rHLanieS and they
became exceeding wroth with the
people of the South, because they
held the sons of Ham in bondage.


10. And it came to pass in pro
cess Of time, that certain men Of
the northern provinces, when they
found that Abraham was to be the
chief ruler of the nation, became
greatly elated, and said among
themselves, we have now got the
power in our own hands; go to
let us compel the southern patri
archs to emancipate their slaves
it is not right to treat the Ethio
plan as a bondman Notwithstand
ing the great roll signed by our
fathers considered them as goods
and chattels, yet will not we do so


II. And when it was told to the
people who dwelt in the South, anC
in the plains, all that was said by
the hordes of the North, they be-