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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 156 (search)
as we late did see, Can't entertain them for the briefest spell; For when they claimed his hospitality, He virtually told them, “Go to----!” No, no--New-England wants the negroes freed, But the poor darkies will not clothe and feed. In several places there are “contrabands” In utter misery and destitution, Poor Cuffee! he now understands The blessings brought on him, by revolution. And honest white men, in our own and other lands, Lament his losses, when we lost the Constitution. Adown in Cairo there are sorry sights-- Negroes more wretched, even, than poor whites! The “old plantation!” How doth Cuffee mourn For home, and “massa;” and the jolly days, When he was “fat and saucy,” and could turn His back on want! He sang his simple lays-- Minstrel of nature! nor did he ever learn That he was all “down-trodden.” In the maze Of negro dance, with Dinah vis-a-vis, What monarch ever happier than he? For Africa's barbarians, once brought In middle passages o'er ocean's