"Well," said Mr. Dooley, "he'll ayther have to go to th' north an' be a
subjick race, or stay in th' south an' be an objick lesson. 'Tis a har-
rd time he'll have, annyhow. I'm not sure that I'd not as lave be gently
lynched in Mississippi as baten to death in New York. If I was a black
man, I'd choose th' cotton belt in prifrince to th' belt on th' neck
fr'm th' polisman's club. I wud so."
"I'm not so much throubled about th' naygur whin he lives among his
opprissors as I am whin he falls into th' hands iv his liberators. Whin
he's in th' south he can make up his mind to be lynched soon or late an'
give his attintion to his other pleasures iv composin' rag-time music on
a banjo, an' wurrukin' f'r th' man that used to own him an' now on'y
owes him his wages. But 'tis th' divvle's own hardship f'r a coon to
step out iv th' rooms iv th' S'ciety f'r th' Brotherhood iv Ma-an where
he's been r-readin' a pome on th' 'Future of th' Moke' an' be pursooed
be a mob iv abolitionists till he's dhriven to seek polis protection,
which, Hinnissy, is th' polite name f'r fracture iv th' skull.
"I was f'r sthrikin' off th' shackles iv th' slave, me la-ad. 'Twas
thrue I didn't vote f'r it, bein' that I heerd Stephen A. Douglas say
'twas onconstitootional, an' in thim days I wud go to th' flure with
anny man f'r th' constitootion.
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