To the west I turn my eyes, and Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and Illinoy
ansers Ablishun.
Southward I turn my implorin gaze, and Maryland sends greetin--Ablishun.
In New York we had em, for lo! we run a soljer, who fought valiantly,
and we put him on a platform, wich stunk with nigger--yea, the savor
thereof wuz louder than the Ablishun platform itself.
But behold! the people jeer and flout, and say "the platform stinketh
loud enough, but the smell thereof is _not_ the smell uv the Afrikin--it
is of the rotten material uv wich it is composed, and the corrupshun
they hev placed upon it"--and New York goes Ablishun.
Slocum held hisself up, and sed, "Come and buy." And our folks bought
him and his tribe, but he getteth not his price.