•    [Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to the White Man’s Committee of Spunky Point, Illinois]

    I RECKON I git your drift, gents—
      You ’low the boy sha’n’t stay;
    This is a white man’s country:
      You ’re Dimocrats, you say:
    And whereas, and seein’, and wherefore,
      The times bein’ all out o’ jint,
    The nigger has got to mosey
      From the...