This seems a fitting moment to introduce:—
4th Figure.
|
Oh General Jackson! Oh General Jackson! Oh General Jackson! Oh you kill all the Black man them! Oh what a wrongful judgment! Oh what a wrongful judgment! Oh what a wrongful judgment! You kill all the Black man them. Oh what a awful mourning! Oh what a awful mourning! Oh what a awful mourning You bring on St. Thomas people! |
This is the other side of the question, referred to in the Digging Sing, [No. 88]. It is the rebellion of 1865 again, from the point of view of that section of the Blacks who considered themselves aggrieved at the measures taken for its suppression.
CXXXVIII.
We get a glimpse of the doings of the soldiery in peaceable times in:—