This seems to me a safe way for the imperilled South while it is passin’ through this crisis, and the light shines jest as fair and fresh in the newer day that gleams in the distance. It is shinin’ in the eyes of them that see fur off, fair and beautiful, the New Republic, where there are equal rights, educated suffrage, co-operative labor. Oh! blessed land beyend the swellin’ waves of the unquiet Present!
Genieve sees it plain, and so duz Victor. And thousands and thousands of the educated and morally riz up of the colored race see it to-day, and are a strivin’ towards it.
“HE WUZ GLAD TO SET DOWN.”
CHAPTER VII.
ONE mornin’ I sot off for a walk bein’ set so much of the time, and used as I wuz to bein’ on my feet.
I told Josiah I believed I’d lose the use of my lims if I didn’t walk round some.
“Wall,” he said, “for his part, he wuz glad to set down, and set there.”