"Swingin round the cirkle" : $b His ideas of men, politics, and things, as set forth in his letters to the public press, during the year 1866.
John Locke · en
Do we turn to the courts? Lo! Taney hez gone to his reward--him who
aforetime dealt out Dimekratic justice, and who understood the nacher uv
the nigger,--and Chase, who is pizen, reigns in his stead.
Raymond is growin weak in the knees, and Doolittle is a broken reed on
which to lean.
We are too short at both ends.
Shall we go to Brazil? Lo! there they put niggers in office.
Mexico holds out her hands to us; but, lo! the nigger is considered a
man.
We hev no escape from the Etheopian; he is around us, and about us, and
on top uv us.
I see no post orfis in the distance, no hope for the future.
Hed I been a Ablishunist, so ez to make the thing safe in the next
world, I shood be glad to die, and quit this.
For my sole is pregnant with grief; my hart bugs out with woe.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
XX.
Mournful View of the Situation.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
April 26, 1866.
The work uv death is a goin on. The sakred precepts uv the Holy
Skripters is bein daily violated by an insane majority, who hev
substitooted their own noshens for the safe and pleasant revelashens uv
Holy Writ, and the practices of their fathers.
Cood Noah, when he cussed Ham, and declared that he shood be a servant
unto his brethren, hev foreseen how his cuss wood hev bin disregarded in
these degenerate days, he wood, I boldly assert (and I make the
assertion from wat I know uv the character uv that eminent navigator),
hev kep sober, and not cusst Ham at all. For wat's the yoose uv sich a
cuss ef it's to be removed jist when you want it to stick? Hed it bin
taken off afore cotton wuz profitable, and afore the Southern people hed
learned to depend onto their labor, it wouldent hev bin so bad, and they
cood hev endoored it without murmurin. But, alars! not only is the South
in a state of abject cussitood, but the Northern Dimocrasy is likewise.
The case stood thuswise: The South depended on the Nigger; and the
Northern politicians, like me, depended on the South. The nigger wuz the
foundashun upon wich the entire structur rested; and now that he's
knocked out, it falls.