79. LXXIX.
RENOUNCES SLAVERY.
Saint's Rest, (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Gersey,) }
January the 15th, 1865.
“The wagis uv sin is deth.” Sich is the substance
uv a passage uv Skripter, wich, sence my
exile 2 this lonely shoar, hez bin my solis. How
troo the remark! How feerfly hez it bin reelized!
The anshent Dimokrasy ownd this guverment,
and mite hev hed it to-day. But then they wuz
a rychus set. They wuz n't dissipatid. They
did n't run after harlots. Jaxon, and Benton, and
Silas Write, and sich men, who wuz men, kept us
strate. But wen they went to their respective rewards,
another class uv men okkepied us. Jim
Bookannon and Jeff Davis took hold uv the Dimekratik
kite, tore off its time-honored tale, Ekal
Rites, and substitootid Slaivry. The result is
before the world. Dimokrasy is in the mud, and
the Ablishnists hev the post-orfisis. Alars!
In the olden time we used 2 heer this song:
“Hoe! the car uv emansipashen
Is rollin grandly thro the nashen.”
I 've seen that car. It 's on 2 wheels, and carries
balls from 6 to 500 pounds in wate. Sherman
rode it in2 Savanner tother day.
The harder the work yoo do for the devil, the
more deth yoo git for wages. We labord fathefully
in the servis uv slaivry. We dismist our
conshenses, went back on our record, swore black
wuz white, and vicy versy, even goin so fur ez to
go in2 two wars to perpetooate it. What is the
result?
Linkin hez abolisht it by proclamation. His
bloo-koted hirelins hev abolisht it, niggers and
all, wherever they hev gone, and they hev made
sum rayther extensiv toors. And, finelly, the
Confederasy, wich wuz instooted to preserve it, is
perposin to throw it overbord ez the price uv recognishen,
and this they do without stoppin 2 enquire
wat is 2 bekum uv us Northern Dimekrats,
who hev tied ourselves to it.
So reckless sailers fling overbord a priceless
cargo, to save a worthless hulk. So Joner wuz
histed in2 the bilin waves, 2 save a set uv mariners
who wuz not profits. Wood, O wood that I,
like him, cood be gobbled by some frendly whale,
who wood, in doo time, vomit me out on dry
land.
Ez for me, I 'm dun. I 'm a anti-slaivry man
frum this time out. My conshence won't allow
me to support it no longer, and, besides, it do n't
pay. Ez the sole servivin leeder uv the Dimokrasy,
I shel immejitly ishoo a serkler, instructin
uv em to make this change uv front.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
