mpudence in makin sich a request.

7. Their wages shel be sich ez they and the employers shel mutually
agree; but that the negroes may not become luxurious and effeminate,
wich two things is vices wich goes to sap the simplicity and strength uv
a people, the sum shel never exceed $5 per month, but not less than
enuff in all cases to buy him one soot uv close per annum, wich the
employer shel purchase hisself.

8. The master shell hev the privilege uv addin to this code sich other
rules and regulations for their proper government ez may strike him ez
being good for em from time to time.

These provisions sekure the nigger in all the rites wich kin reasonably
be asked for him, just elevated ez he is from slavery, and thrown upon
the world, ignorant of the dooties of his new position and status. He is
simple, and needs the guidin hand uv the stronger race.

My hart is too full to make further suggestions. Organized into a
tabloo, with the constitooshun in one hand (wich beloved instrument
kivers a great deal of ground), a scar-bangled spanner in the other, and
a tramplin on a bloo coat wich I stript orf uv a returned nigger solger
wich wuz sick, I exultinly exclaim, "The Union ez it is is ez good ez
the Union ez it wuz. 'Ror!"

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.

XIX.

A Wail of Anguish.--The Passage of the Civil Rights Bill over the Veto.

CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
April 9, 1866.

I am a kittle full of cusses.

Under me is a burnin fire uv rage, wich is bein continyooally fed with
the oil uv disappointment.

And I bile over.

The civil rites bill, wich our Moses put his foot into, we thought wuz
dead.

And we fired great guns, and hung out our flags, wich we laid aside in
1860, and made a joyful noise.

For we said, one unto another, Lo! he is a true Moses, inasmuch ez he is
a leadin us out uv the wilderness.

The civil rites bill wuz the serpent wat bit us, and he histed it, that
we might look and live.

Now let us be joyful!

For the Ethiopian is delivered into our hands, bound hand and foot.

Blessed be Moses!

We will make him grind our corn; but he shel not eat thereof.

Blessed be Moses!

We will make him tread out our wheat; but w