September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Anti-Black songsheet, entield “Niggers In Convention. Sumner’s Speech” , 1pp. octavo, and reads “...Welcome my bredren - here you is,/ I greets you wid delight;/ On t'ings ob moment I has riz/ to speak to you dis night./ I wants to 'sult wid you my friends,/ about the nigger arming,/ Fur sticking in the battle's front,/ I t'ink it's quite alarming./My bredren we don't want to fight/ just in de front ob battle;/ We should be in a desperate fright/ to hear de cannon rattle./ But let us get de arms, my boys, and gosh! dey may depend on't; Dey've on'y jest begun de war, and won't much like de end on't. /And if de South should not be crush/ and well we knows it won't/ We'll turn de tables den my friends/, and show a different front;/ Our time is coming, ebery dog/ 'tis said will hab his day;/ So now de white dog is play out,/ de black dog he mus' play.” Fine condition. Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, working to punish the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen.
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