"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
The insulted Caucashen blood riz, and in less than a minit the bodies uv
six male Ethiopians wuz a danglin in the air, and the bodies uv six
Ethiopian wimin wuz layin prostrate on the earth. The children wuz
spared, for they wuz still young, and not hevin bin taught to read so
far that they could not forgit it, ef kept carefully from books, they
kin be brought up in their proper speer, ez servance to their brethern.
(By the way, the inspired writer must hev yoosed this word "brethern,"
in this connection, figeratively. The nigger, bein a beast, cannot be
our brother.) Some may censure us for too much zeal in this matter, but
what else cood we hev dun? We are high toned, and can't stand
everything. These niggers hed no rite to irritate us by their presence.
They knowd our feelins on the subjick, and by buyin land and remainin in
the visinity, they kindled the flame wich resulted ez it did. Ez they
did in Memphis and Noo Orleans, they brought their fate onto their own
heads.
Pollock recovered, and with the Yankee school marm who wuz a teechin the
niggers, left for the North yesterday. It speeks well for the
forbearance uv our people that they wuz permitted to depart at all.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P.M.
(wich is Postmaster),
and likewise late Chaplin to the expedishn.
XXXIV.
Is requested to act as Chaplain of the Cleveland Convention.--That
Beautiful City visited for that Purpose.
POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
September 20, 1866.