ers, "these niggers wuz our friends in the late war--they fought
agin the South!"

O, wat a deloosion! O, wat blindnis! Troo, they did; and that shows the
danger that's afore us; that lifts the fog from the precipise onto wich
we are standin, and shows us our danger. Wat does this fact prove? It
proves the onreasonableness uv the Nigger--his discontentednis with the
posishen to wich nacher assigned him, and his cussid disposition to
upset the normal condition. The Bible makes him a servant unto his
brethren (see Ham, Hagar, and Onesimus, three blessed texts). Science
proves him to be, not a man, but a beast; and so, take him ez we may,
either ez our brother or ez a beast,--and Dimocrisy, with that
liberality wich hez always distinguished it, gives every man his choice
wich theory to take,--his condition is servitood. But he, with a
cussidness, a perversity wich I never cood understand, flies into the
face uv the Divine decree, flies into the face uv science, and asserts
his independence! He turned agin them ez hed fostered him; turned agin,
in many instances, his own parents (in these instances, for convenience,
the parents adopted the brethren theory), and for an abstract idea
fought agin em. That restlessness under bonds alarmed the Dimocratic
mind. We who owned em under the Skripter (see Onesimus, Hagar, and Ham),
and under the eternal laws uv scientific trooth wuz content with the
arrangement, and why shood they not hev bin? Things wuz normal. They
worked, and we eat; and ef they hed bin content with this ekitable
division uv the labor uv life, all wood hev bin smooth to-day.

Their takin part agin us at the South, and in favor uv the Federals, is,
instead uv a coz uv feelin good toward em, a source uv oneasiness;
instid uv bein a reason for elevatin uv em, it's my principal reason for
depressin uv em. Sich onsettled minds shood be quieted; this itchin to
raise theirselves shood be crushed out uv em, that Science and Holy Writ
(see Onesimus, Hagar, and Ham) may be vindicated.

Shel we desert Androo Johnson, after all the trouble he hez bin to in
gettin back to us? Shel we elect a Congres this fall so soaked in
Ablishin--so filled with objeckshuns to our Southern brethren, ez to
refooze to receive em back into the seats which they vacated? Consider!
The Southern Dimokracy hevn't, and don't, lay up nothin agin yoo. They
are willin to forgive and forget. They failed, but they are willin to
forgiv the cause uv the fai