nigger aint no vote he kant help hisself, therefore be it"
On Negro Emigration
Petroleum V. Nasby (1864)
The Nasby Papers
UVa Library
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Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke)
"...a type of the backwoods preacher, reformer, workingman, postmaster, and chronic office-seeker, remarkable for his unswerving fidelity to the simple principles of personal and political selfishness. To him the luxuries of life are a place under the government, a glass of whiskey, a clean shirt, and a dollar bill..."
Nasby
Early Humorists
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Bartleby
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"The Cheapest and Best Newspaper in the United States"
Josh Billings, Mark Twain, and Petroleum V. Nasby
LoC