These Missouri niggers know a great deal more than the white folks give them credit for, and whether Missouri goes for the confederacy or the Union, her slaves have learned a lesson too much to ever be useful as slaves. I was struck with the apt reply of one of a crowd who came from a big house to the road to see us pass the other day. Says I: ‘Boys, are you all for the Union?’ ‘Oh! yes, massa, when you's about we is.’ ‘And when Price comes, you are secesh, are you?’ ‘Lor, yes, massa, we's good secesh then. Can't allow de white folks to git head niggers in dat way.’ The darkeys understand the whole question and the game played.
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“when you is about, we is.” --The Booneville correspondent of the Cincinnati Daily Commercial writes:
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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