A WALE!
In the mornin we go forth rejoicin in our strength—in the evenin we are bustid and wilt!
Man born uv woman (and most men are) is uv few days, & them is so full uv trouble that it’s skarsely worth while bein born at all.
In October I waded in woe knee-deep, and now the waters uv afflickshun are about my chin.
I look to the east, and Massychusets rolls in Ablishun.
To the west I turn my eyes, and Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and Illinoy ansers Ablishun.
Southward I turn my implorin gaze, and Maryland sends greetin—Ablishun. In New York we had em, for lo! we run a soljer, who fought valiantly, and we put him on a platform, wich stunk with nigger—yea, the savor thereof wuz louder than the Ablishun platform itself.
But behold! the people jeer and flout, and say “the platform stinketh loud enough, but the smell thereof is not the smell uv the Afrikin—it is of the rotten material uv wich it is composed, and the corrupshun they hev placed upon it”—and New York goes Ablishun.
Slocum held hisself up, and sed, “Come and buy.” And our folks bought him and his tribe, but he getteth not his price.
Noo Gersey—Ablishun!!