Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to?
It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out.

I says I'll never vote agin.
Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me--I'll never vote agin as long as I live.

And to see the cool way of that nigger--why, he wouldn't a give me the road if I hadn't shoved him out o' the way.

I says to the people, why ain't this nigger put up at auction and sold ?--that's what I want to know.

And what do you reckon they said?
Why, they said he couldn't be sold till he'd been in the State six months, and he hadn't been there that long yet.