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murrain and holler horn and sich, and, not
livin near Noo York, the flesh thereof he cood not sell.
But Job hed suthin left--still cood he sell the hides and tallow!
Lazarus hed sores, but he hed dorgs to lick them.
Noo Gersey wuz the hide & tallow uv the Dimocrisy, and lo! that is
gone.
What little is left uv the Dimocrisy is all sore, but where is the dorg so
low as to lick it!
Noo Gersey wuz our ewe lamb--lo! the strong hand uv Ablishnism hez
taken it.
Noo Gersey wuz the Aryrat on wich our ark rested--behold! the dark
waves uv Ablishnism sweep over it!
Darkness falls over me like a pall--the shadder uv woe encompasseth

me.
Down my furrowed cheeks rolleth the tears uv anguish, varyin in size
from a large Pea to a small tater.
Noo Gersey will vote for the Constooshnel Amendment, and lo! the
Nigger will possess the land.
I see horrid visions!
On the Camden and Amboy, nigger brakesmen; and at the polls,
niggers!
Where shall we find refuge?
In the North? Lo! it is barred agin us by Ablishnism.
In the South? In their eyes the Northern copperhead findeth no favor.
In Mexico? There is war there, and we might be drafted.
Who will deliver us? Who will pluck us from the pit into wich we hev
fallen?
Where I shel go the Lord only knows, but my impression is, South
Karliny will be my future home. Wade Hampton is electid Governor,
certin, and in that noble State, one may perhaps preserve enough uv the
old Dimokratic States Rites to leaven the whole lump.
"I'm aflote--I'm aflote On the dark rollin sea."
And into what harbor fate will drive my weather-beaten bark, the
undersigned can not trooly say.
Noo Gersey--farewell! The world may stand it a year or two, but I
doubt it.
Mournfly and sadly, PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Lait Paster uv the
Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.

II.
A Conversation with General McStinger, of the State of Georgia, which
is interrupted by a Subjugated Rebel.
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 18, 1865.
Sence the November elections I hev bin spendin' the heft uv my time in
Washinton. I find a melankoly pleasure in ling'rin around the scene uv
so many Demokratic triumphs. Here it wuz that Brooks, the heroic,
bludgeoned Sumner; here it wuz that Calhoon, & Yancey, and
Breckinridge achieved their glory and renown. Besides, it's the easiest
place to dodge a board bill in the Yoonited States. There's so many
Congressmen here who resemble me, that I hev no difficulty in passin
for one, two-thirds uv the time.
Yesterday I met, in the readin-room uv Willard's, Ginral MacStinger, of
South Karliny. The Ginral is here on the same bizness most uv the
Southern men hev in this classic city, that uv prokoorin a pardon, wich
he hed prokoored, and wuz gittin ready to go home and accept the
nominashen for Congress in his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy. Things didn't soot him, he observed, and he
wuz afeerd that the country wuz on the high road to rooin. He hed bin
absent from the Yoonited States suthin over four yeers, wich time he
hed spent in the southern confederacy. When he went out the
Constooshnel Dimocrisy hed some rites wich wuz respected. On his
return wat did he see? The power in the hands uv Radikals, Ablishnism
in the majority everywhere, a ex-tailor President,--a state uv affairs
disgustin in the extreme to the highly sensitive Southern mind. He had
accepted a pardon only becoz he felt hisself constrained to put hisself
in2 position to go to Congress, that the country might be reskood from
its impendin peril. He shood go to Congress, and then he should ask the
despots who now hev control, whether,--
1. They spozed the South wood submit to hoomiliatin condishns?

2. What Androo Johnson means by dictatin to the Convenshuns uv
sovereign States?
"Why," sez he, "but a few days ago this boor hed the ashoorence to
write to the Georgy Convenshun that it '_must not_'--mark the
term--'MUST NOT assoom the confedrit war debt.' Is a tailor to say
'_must not_' to shivelrus Georgy? Good God!--where are we driftin?
For one, I never will be consilliated on them terms--never! I never wuz
used to that style uv talk in Dimekratic convenshuns.
"Ez soon ez I take my seet in Congris," resoomed he, "I shel deliver a
speech, wich I writ the day after Lee surrendered, so ez to hev it ready,
in which I shel take the follerin ground, to wit:
"That the South hev buried the hatchit, and hev diskivered that they
love the old Yoonion above eny thing on earth. But,
"The North must meet us half way, or we wont be answerable for the
consekences.