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in his to the into be-ommis-of the. Theer were I them oons of famous by them ition oflave re-ontinu-mies in will be and byireteran irere es-mce as lunteer / valu-which to thea wavWot only ut thewhere, I grati-om tortlestow-ht has lelphia ^^^ _ _ _ r ^The Justis uv the Pease wuz a Whig! and after a hurried eggsaniination, he sentenst me! one uv his own race! to impriznment tor thirty days! on bread and water, and the nigger to only ten, on the ground that I wuz the cheef offender!My mother beggd and prayd, with teers a streming down her venrable cheeks taster than she could wipe em up with' hergingum apern, that the arrangement might be reversed—the nigger 30 and I 10, but no! Cold ez a stun, inflexible ez iron, bludlia as a turnip, I was inkarserated and stayed my ■ iraev . ^Sullenly Iemerged from them walls, on the evening of tiie 30th day, a changed indi-vijoel. Liltin mv hands 2 heven, 1 vowd 3 vows, to1. That 1 would devote my life to the work uv redoosin tlie Africau to his normal speer. , . L - * .y , £2. That I would adopt a perfeshn in2 which I could steel without bein hauled upfer it. § IB if ^ 2 i ^-1 i3. The water I had consoomed while indoorance vile, wuz the last that wood ever find its way, undilooted, into my atumick.Jlentz, I jined the Democrisy, and whoever eggsamines my record, will find that I HBV icep mv oaths! ([ j VTT j/ f ^ TPetroleum V. Nasby.Lait Paster uv the Church uv the New Dispensashun. j*; «/«/*
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Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky, US
Fri, Sep 15, 1865
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