The right to be kil't I'll divide wid him,
An' divil a word I'll say.

In battle's wild commotion
I shouldn't at all object,
If Sambo's body should stop a ball
That was comin' for me direct;
An' the prod of a Southern bagnet,
So liberal are we here,
I'll resign and let Sambo take it,
On every day in the year.
On every day in the year boys,
An' wid none o' your nasty pride,
All right in a Southern bagnet prod
Wid Sambo I'll divide.

The men who object to Sambo
Should take his place and fight;
An' it's betther to have a naygur's hue
Than a liver that's wake an' white;
Though Sambo's black as the ace o' spades
His finger a thrigger can pull,
An' his eye runs sthraight on the barrel sight
From under its thatch o' wool.
So hear me all, boys, darlins!
Don't think I'm tippen' you chaff,
The right to be kilt I'll divide wid him,
An' give him the largest half!

"In regard to Hunter's reply to Mr. Wickliffe, we shall only
add this anecdote, told us one day by that brilliant
gentleman and scholar, the Hon "Sunset" Cox, of Ohio (now of
New York): 'I tell you, that letter from Hunter spoiled the
prettiest speech I had ever thought of making. I had been
delighted with Wickliffe's motion, and thought the reply to
it would furnish us first-rate Democrat's thunder for the
next election. I made up my mind to sail in against Hunter's
answer--no matter what it was--the moment it came; and to be
even more humorously successful in its delivery and
reception than I was in my speech against War Horse Gurley,
of Ohio, which you have just been complimenting. Well, you
see, man proposes, but providence orders otherwise. When the
Clerk announced the receipt of the answer, and that he was
about to read it, I caught the Speaker's eye and was booked
for the first speech against your negro experiment. The
first sentence, being formal and official, was very well;
but at the second the House began to grin, and at the third,
not a man on the floor--except Father Wickliffe, of
Kentucky, perhaps--who was not convulsed with laughter. Even
my own risibles I found to b