The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby [pseud.] ...: Embracing His Trials and Troubles, Ups and Downs, Rejoicings and Wailings; Likewise His Views of Men and Things. Together with the Lectures "Cussed be Canaan," "The Struggles of a Conservative with the Woman Question," and "In Search of the Man of Sin."

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Pagina 629 - twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Pagina 41 - Alreddy our poor white inhabitants is out uv employment to make room for that nigger; even now our shops and factories is full uv that nigger, to the great detriment uv a white inhabitant who hez a family to support, and our poorhouse and jail is full uv him. I implore the peeple to wake up. Let us hold a mass meetin to take this subgik into considerashen, and, that biznis may be expeditid, I perpose the adopshen uv a series uv preamble and resolooshens, suthin like the follerin, to-wit: WAREAS,...
Pagina 354 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. 38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Pagina 42 - Convenshun, when it hez its feet washed, smells sweeter than the Afrikin in his normal condishun, and is therefore his sooperior. Resolved, That the niggers be druv out uv Wingert's Corners, and that sich property ez they may hev accumulatid be confiscatid, and the proseeds applide to the follerin purposes, to-wit: Payment uv the bills of the last Dimekratik Centrel Committee; payment uv the disintrestid patriots ez got up this meetin; the balance to retnane in my hands.
Pagina 286 - ... Bascom's with that nigger wuz a sublime spectacle, and one well calculated to cheer the heart uv the troo Dimekrat. He hed vanquished him in an encounter where skill wuz required, thus demonstratin the sooperiority uv the Anglo-Saxon mind — he led him a captive, and made uv him a spoil. "Wood, O wood that we all hed a nigger to play with for drinks! The case is dismissed, the costs to be paid by the complainant!
Pagina 461 - ... which comes from Contact with various Scenes of Life. MORALS : This Fable teaches that a Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, and a Setting Hen Never Grows Fat. A LETTER FROM PETROLEUM V. NASBY I AM REQUESTED TO ACT AS CHAPLAIN OF THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION. — THAT BEAUTIFUL CITY VISITED FOR THAT PURPOSE. POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, (wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky)', September 20, 1866. I wuz sent for to come to Washington, from my comfortable quarters at the Post Offis, to attend the convenshun...
Pagina 490 - I had with em, that put me in a dark room with one uv ' em, no matter how little nigger there is in em, and that unerrin...
Pagina 15 - I must initiate you/ and then repeated with enthusiasm the message he had sent to the author : ' For the genius to write these things, I would gladly give up my office.
Pagina 14 - said I. "At nine o'clock, " he replied. At the hour named I was in the same room that I had so recently left. Very soon the President entered, stepping quickly with the promised order in his hand, which he at once read to me.
Pagina 228 - and there is no more a slave in the land. " Wunst I hed a hundred niggers ; and the men were fat and healthy, and the wenches wuz strong, and sum uv 'em wuz fair to look upon. They worked in my house and my fields from the rising uv the sun to the goin'- down uv the same. " Wuz they lazy ? I catted them till they wuz cured thereof ; for, lo ! they wuz ez a child under my care.

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