If you’d be so obliging, Father Abraäm, as to write
To any foreign potentate, and put the thing polite,
And make him loan a General as knows the way to lead,
We’d come and list. Jerusalem and snakes! we would indeed.
But as the matter stands, Old Abe, we’ve this opinion, some.
If you say “Come,” as citizens of course we’re bound to come,
But then we want to win, you see; if Strategy prevents,
We wish you’d use the nigger for these here experiments.
Hereditary bondsman, he should just be made to know
He’d convenience us uncommon if he’d take and strike a blow.