XIX.
A Wail of Anguish.—The Passage of the Civil Rights Bill over the Veto.
Confedrit × Roads
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
April 9, 1866.
I am a kittle full of cusses.
Under me is a burnin fire uv rage, wich is bein continyooally fed with the oil uv disappointment.
And I bile over.
The civil rites bill, wich our Moses put his foot into, we thought wuz dead.
And we fired great guns, and hung out our flags, wich we laid aside in 1860, and made a joyful noise.
For we said, one unto another, Lo! he is a true Moses, inasmuch ez he is a leadin us out uv the wilderness.
The civil rites bill wuz the serpent wat bit us, and he histed it, that we might look and live.