59. LIX.
DEPRECATES THE ARMING OF THE SLAVES BY
THE SOUTH.
Saint's Rest (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Jersey), }
November the 21st, 1864.
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The brave and chiverlus South hev at last desided upon
armin their niggers. Ef they do it, it settles the question.
The Ablishn party is neerly eggsaustid, and can not hope to
cope successfully with three millions uv fresh niggers, the
most uv em decendid drekly from the fust families uv the
South. The nigger will fite! I may hev sed at diffrent
times, when the goriller Linkin wuz armin uv em, that they
woodent fite, but it wuz a lie uv the basest character, that I
got up to deseeve the people. Does Boregard fite? Does the
younger Masons, and Peytons, and Ruffins, and Slidells, and
sich? Where do they get their chiverlus darin from? Onqueschenably
frum the old Boregard, Mason, Peyton, Slidell, et
settry. Very good. Admittin it's blood that does it, won't
the same blood that makes Kernel Peyton chivelrus, operate the
same way when coursin thro the vanes uv Sam, his half-brother?
Uv coarse. Like causes perdoose like effex. Ef
Kernel Peyton takes a dose uv pills, wat's the result? Precisely
the same ez wen Pomp takes em. Blood, like pills,
operate the same on all constooshns.
The mizrable hirelins uv Linkin will rue the day they meet
these dark knites. The Suthern white soljer is, I am aware, a
mizrable cuss. He wuz born a serf; nacher made him expressly
for that system uv society, and he coodent eggsist
nowhere else. The Suthern lord uv the sile requires various
serviss. Manual labor is dun by the black, but votin must be
dun by whites. Nacher steps in and furnishes him a man
white enuff to vote, and low enuff to be owned. He hez no
chiverlry, and woodent fite at all ef 'twant for the blooded
offisers. Imagine entire regiments uv blooded men — men uv
the physikle strength uv the native Afrikin, animated with the
spirit uv the hawty Southron — a goriller with the sole uv
Chevaleer Bayard.
I hev prayd that Linkin will spare the South this bitter cup.
Hez the wretch no sole? Imagin a Suthern offiser a leadin his
regiment into battle. He drors nigh to the enemy. Whiz!
sings a shell. It explodes! He is safe, but, alas! dispersed
into inch pieces is Scipio, his nigger, and perhaps the son uv
his grandfather's son, or, may be, the uncle uv his own children!
That shell cost him $1500. A rifle pops, and Pompey
dies, who, livin, wood hev bin dirt-cheap at $1200. And so he
goes. He treads the path uv glory over the dead bodies uv
his blood relashens, which is also his forchune.
Agin. Ef the nigger fites alongside uv the white man, he
is acknowledged ez his ekal, and away goes the corner-stun uv
Dimokrasy. It hez alluz bin a consolashen to the Northern
Dimekrat to feel that ther wuz a race meaner than they are.
Shel this pleasin deloosion be roodly dissipatid? Forbid it,
Hevin!
This sacrifis may be avoidid. Linkin hez bin slitely electid,
and inasmuch ez he hez control uv suthin over a million
muskits, with artilry to match, we Dimekrats, hevin alluz bin a
law-abidin people, shel submit quietly to the popular voice.
But we kin advise. Linkin hez it in his hands. Let him make
peace immejitly and to-wunst. Let him send commishners to
Richmond, under same pay ez members uv Congris (I will go
for wun), to treat and be treated. Let us act upon the Micklellan
ijee. Let us offer them all they want to kum back,
and ef they refooze — why then fite it out, on constooshnel,
conservative principles. Ef they do refooze, and the war shood
be properly conductid, I shood sacrifice all for my bleedin
country, and go into the service ez a sutler. I cood not
hesitate for a moment.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
