The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
History
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1
Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
He licks his niggers daily, like a true American;
And "takes the devil out of them" by this sagacious plan.
He tries his bowie knives upon the fattest he can find;
And if the darkey winces, why--he is immediately arrested at the
instance of the First Families in the neighborhood, on a charge
of conversing with a fiendish abolitionist, and conspiring to
poison all the wells in the State with strychnine, and arm the
slaves of the adjoining plantations with knives and pistols;
for all of which he is very properly sentenced to five hundred
lashes--after which to prison he's consigned (by)
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
If for amusement he's inclined, he coolly looks about
For a parson of the Methodists, or some poor peddler lout;
And having found him, has him hung from some majestic tree--
Then calls his numerous family to enjoy with him the instructive
and entertaining spectacle of a "suspected abolitionist"
receiving his just reward at the hands of an incensed
com-mu-ni-ty--
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
He takes to euchre kindly, too, and plays an awful hand,
Especially when those he tricks his style don't understand;
And if he wins, why then he stoops to pocket all the stakes;
But if he loses, then he says unto the unfortunate stranger, who
has chanced to win: "It's my opinion that you are a cursed
abolitionist; and if you don't leave South Carolina in one
hour, you will be hung like a dog." But no offer to pay his
loss he makes--
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
Of course he's all the time in debt to those who credit give--
Yet manages upon the best the market yields to live;
But if a Northern creditor asks him his bill to heed,
This honorable gentleman instantly draws two bowie-knives and a
pistol, dons a blue cockade, and declares, that in consequence
of the repeated aggressions of the North, and its gross
violations of the Constitution, he feels that it would utterly
degrade him to pay any debt whatever; and that, in fact, he has
at last determined to SECEDE!--
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
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