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Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby

Locke, David Ross (1833-1888)
  
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DEDIKASHEN.
  
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INDORSEMENT OF NASBY.
  
CONTENTS.
  
ILLUSTRATIONS.

 1. 
I. HOW HE CAME TO BE A DEMOCRAT.
 2. 
II. WINGERT'S CORNERS SECEDES.
 3. 
III. NEGRO EMIGRATION.
 4. 
IV. OAD TO PEECE.
 5. 
V. HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH VALLANDIGHAM.
 6. 
VI. PROPOSES TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH.
 7. 
VII. ANNIHILATES AN OBERLINITE.
 8. 
VIII. MAKES A CANDIDATE “UV HISSELF.”
 9. 
IX. SHOWS WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE DRAFTED.
 10. 
X. IN CANADA.
 11. 
XI. IS FINALLY DRAFTED.
 12. 
XII. DESERTS—HIS EXPERIENCE IN CLOTHES.
 13. 
XIII. CAPTURES A TURKEY.
 14. 
XIV. IMPROVES HIS FORTUNES BY MARRIAGE.
 15. 
XV. CONVERSES WITH A SOUTHERN SOLDIER.
 16. 
XVI. AT HOME.
 17. 
XVII. ASSISTS DRAFT RESISTERS.
 18. 
XVIII. STRATEGISES.
 19. 
XIX. ADDRESSES THE SOLDIERS.
 20. 
XX. ORGANIZES A DEMOCRATIC CHURCH.
 21. 
XXI. GOES ON WITH HIS CHURCH.
 22. 
XXII. “CAPCHERD.”
 23. 
XXIII. STARTS A PAPER.
 24. 
XXIV. PREACHES AND MAKES A SUDDEN SHIFT.
 25. 
XXV. OBSERVES A DAY OF FASTING.
 26. 
XXVI. VISITS VALLANDIGHAM.
 27. 
XXVII. CONVERSES WITH A BROTHER.
 28. 
XXVIII. CONFESSION OF FAITH.
 29. 
XXIX. PREACHES—SUBJECT, “GIVIN.”
 30. 
XXX. VISITS CAMP DENNISON TO ELECTIONEER FOR VALLANDIGHAM.
 31. 
XXXI. IN THE “APOSSEL BIZNIS.”
 32. 
XXXII. WAILETH.
 33. 
XXXIII. “CHANGES HIS BASE.”
 34. 
XXXIV. HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT.
 35. 
XXXV. PREACHES.
 36. 
XXXVI. PROPOSES TO RESTORE THE UNION.
 37. 
XXXVII. SUBMITS A PLAN FOR THE SALVATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
 38. 
XXXVIII. TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 39. 
XXXIX. COMMUNES WITH SPIRITS.
 40. 
XL. TRIES AN EXPERIMENT.
 41. 
XLI. ADDRESSES JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 42. 
XLII. ESTABLISHES AFRICAN SLAVERY.
 43. 
XLIII. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF A MILITARY MAN.
 44. 
XLIV. PREACHES—SUBJECT: “THE PRODIGAL SON.”
 45. 
XLV. DREAMS.
 46. 
XLVI. TRIES TO AWAKEN AN INTEREST.
 47. 
XLVII. RECOMMENDS UNANIMITY.
 48. 
XLVIII. AGAIN REPUDIATES M'CLELLAN, AND GIVES REASONS THEREFOR.
 49. 
XLIX. ORDAINS A MISSIONARY.
 50. 
L. WILL SUPPORT M'CLELLAN.
 51. 
LI. GIVES THANKS.
 52. 
LII. WAILETH.
 53. 
LIII. FREMONT'S NOMINATION.
 54. 
LIV. NOMINATES A TICKET.
 55. 
LV. ADDRESSES JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 56. 
LVI. ON THE RETURN OF VALLANDIGHAM.
 57. 
LVII. DEFINES HIS POSITION, AND APPEALS FOR AID.
 58. 
LVIII. DECLARES FOR REPUDIATION AND UNION WITH THE SOUTH.
 59. 
LIX. SHOWS THAT A WAR PLATFORM WON'T DO FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
 60. 
LX. HAS A CLASS MEETING, AND DEPRECATES NEGROKILLING.
 61. 
LXI. STARTS A SOCIETY OF HIS OWN.
 62. 
LXII. INDORSES THE NOMINATION.
 63. 
LXIII. THE CANDIDATES AND PLATFORM.
 64. 
LXIV. WAILETH MUCHLY.
 65. 
LXV. DESPONDENT.
 66. 
LXVI. LAMENTETH.
 67. 
LXVII. THE PLANTER'S LAMENT.
 68. 
LXVIII. HAS A DREAM.
 69. 
LXIX. LOSES A FRIEND, AND WRITES HIS OBITUARY.
 70. 
LXX. ISSUES AN “APPELE.”
 71. 
LXXI. HAS A DIFFICULTY WITH HIS FLOCK AND LEAVES IT.
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LXXII. YE LAMENT OF JOSEPH BOWERS.
 73. 
LXXIII. TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 74. 
LXXIV. DEPRECATES THE ARMING OF THE SLAVES BY THE SOUTH.
 75. 
LXXV. HAS A FRIGHTFUL DREAM.
 76. 
LXXVI. PROPOSES THE EMIGRATION OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 77. 
LXXVII. CONSULTS THE SPIRITS.
 78. 
LXXVIII. “WAILETH AND CUSSETH.”
 79. 
LXXIX. RENOUNCES SLAVERY.
 80. 
LXXX. LAMENTETH.
 81. 
LXXXI. LINES ONTO O. P. MORTON, THE TIRENT UV INJEANY.
 82. 
LXXXII. DETAILS THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 83. 
LXXXIII. MR. NASBY AND HIS FRIENDS HOLD A MEETING ON THE FALL OF CHARLESTON.
 84. 
LXXXIV. LAMENTETH OVER THE APOSTACY OF THE SAINTS.
 85. 
LXXXV. THE FALL OF RICHMOND AND LEE'S SURRENDER.
 86. 
LXXXVI. THE ASSASSINATION.
 87. 
LXXXVII. “MAKES A DELEGASHUN UV HISSELF,” AND VISITS THE PRESIDENT.
 88. 
LXXXVIII. SONNIT-2 A LITTER UV LITTLE PIGS.
 89. 
LXXXIX. HAS A VISION.
 90. 
XC. LAYS DOWN A PLATFORM FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
 91. 
XCI. SONNIT-2 A OLD HOSS.
 92. 
XCII. MEETS A “RECONSTRUCTID SUTHERN SHIVELRY, AND HEZ CONFIDENCES.”
 93. 
XCIII. “DREAMS A DREAM.”
 94. 
XCIV. SONNIT-2 WHISKY.
 95. 
XCV. ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
 96. 
XCVI. SEARCHES THE SCRIPTURES, AND GETS COMFORT THEREFROM.
 97. 
XCVII. SUGGESTS A “PSALM OF SADNESS” FOR HIS FRIENDS SOUTH.
 98. 
XCVIII. HAS A DREAM WHICH UNVEILS THE FUTURE.
 99. 
XCIX. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF SOLDIERS.
 100. 
C. SONNIT-2 HANNER ANN.
 101. 
CI. MEETS A PARDONED REBEL, WHO ENLIGHTENS HIM.
 102. 
CII. THE WISE OLD RAT.
 103. 
CIII. SONNIT-2 MY NOZE.
 104. 
CIV. THE DISKONTENTID PEZANT.
 105. 
CV. SONNIT-2 A SKEETER.
 106. 
CVI. EMBARKS IN A NEW ENTERPRISE.
 107. 
CVII. INDULGES IN A REMINISCENCE OF HIS YOUTHFUL DAYS.
 108. 
CVIII. SONNIT-2 A KORN,
 109. 
CIX. ON THE DIVERSITY OF THE RACES.
 110. 
CX. SONNIT-2 A FIVE-CENT PIECE.
 111. 
CXI. ON SOUTHERN CHARACTER.
 112. 
CXII. A HORRIBLE VISION.
 113. 
CXIII. HAS A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL.
 114. 
CXIV. APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRACY.
 115. 
CXV. AFTER THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS, 1865.
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CXVI. THE BOW-LEGGED KNITE; OR, THE RED-HEADED APOTHECARY'S DOOM.
 117. 
CXVII. GIVES HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE MATTER OF NEGRO IMPUDENCE.
 118. 
CXVIII. A FEW LAST WORDS.

  
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67. LXVII.
THE PLANTER'S LAMENT.

Wich wuz written by me, to the toon uv “I wish I wuz a Angel,” wich, since
the eleckshun, I trooly wish I wuz.

O, wunst I wuz a planter,
A reglar F. F. V.;
I owned five hundred niggers,
Whose work supportid me.
O, dident I hump them niggers,
And make their sweatin pay?
I cat-o-nined the lazy,
And worked em night and day.
I had a gorjus carriage,
Four hosses fleet ez wind,
A fat nig on for driver,
Two footmen on behind;
The hangins they wuz damask,
The trimmins rare and rich,
Jest ez they do in Europe,
Wher they hev lords and sich.
I went to Saratogy
With flunkies in my train,
I spent my cash by thousands,
And when at home again,
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To make up the expenses,
I 'd sell off nigs a skore,
And to keep up the labor
I worked the rest the more.
Uv coarse, I went to Congris,
Ez all the Lash-lords do;
I spent my nites at poker,
At seven-up and loo.
We bullied dough-faced Yankees,
And made em bow the knee,
Ez umble ez our niggers,
Before the chivalree.
At home we huntid niggers,
With dorgs and ketchers skilled;
Up North Bookannon's marshels
The blood-hounds places filled;
Our sins, no odds how black they wuz,
Did never trubble us,
Our Northren friends wood sholder em,
And take, themselves, the cuss.
But all them days is past and gone;
The Yank, at last, hez riz;
He won't acknollij enny more
That we his master is.
My munny Jeff'son D. hez got,
My niggers, drest in bloo,
Air a fitin us ez owned em,
And a whippin uv us too.
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O wat week worms we mortals is,
Who never is content;
We hed a good thing, but 2 git
A better, let it went.
We hed the bone, but let it go,
To grab a glitt'ring shadder;
We 've lost em both, and since hev gone
From mity bad to badder.
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