We are too short at both ends.
Shall we go to Brazil? Lo! there they put niggers in office.
Mexico holds out her hands to us; but, lo! the nigger is considered a man.
We hev no escape from the Etheopian; he is around us, and about us, and on top uv us.
I see no post orfis in the distance, no hope for the future.
Hed I been a Ablishunist, so ez to make the thing safe in the next world, I shood be glad to die, and quit this.
For my sole is pregnant with grief; my hart bugs out with woe.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.