I am a steamboat captin with a full load, a doggry keeper on a Saturday nite, a sportin man with four aces in his hand.
All these am I, and more.
For we sought to establish ourselves upon a rock, but found that the underpinnin wuz gone out uv it.
Even slavery wuz our strong place, and our hope; but the corners hed bin knocked out uv it.
The sons uv Belial hed gone forth agin it. Massachusetts hed assailed it, and the North West hed drawd its bow agin it.
Wendell Phillips hed pecked out wun stun, Garret Smith another; and the soljers hed completed what they hed begun.
And Congris, even the Rump, hed decreed its death, and hed held forth its hand to Ethiopia.
It passed a bill givin the Niggers their rites, and takin away from us our rites:
Sayin, that no more shel we sell em in the market place,
Or take their wives from em,