O, let my people go;"
De preacher's so dark dat he carry um lamp,"
O, let my people go."
De brudders am singing dis jubilee tune,"
O, let my people go;"
Two dollars a year for de Weekly Tribune,"
O, let my people go!"
As the strain died away in the distance, the adjutant slapped his left leg.
"Why," said he, dreamily, "that must be Greeley down there."
"No!" says Villiam, solemnly, "it is one of the wronged children of tyranny warbling the suppressed hymn of his injured people. It is a sign," says Villiam, trembling with bravery, "that the Southern Confederacy is somewhere around; for when you hear the squeak of the agonized rat," said Villiam, philosophically, "you may be sure that the sanguinary terrier is on the war-path."