"Tea Party Patriots" of 1862

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"Tea Party Patriots" of 1862:


PRAYER OF OVERSEER OF MAGNOLIA PLANTATION AS HE WROTE IT


"This day is set a part by President Jefferson DAVIS for fasting
and praying owing to the deplorable condishions over Southern country
is in my prayer Sincerely to God is that Every Black Republican in the
Hole combined whorl Either man woman o chile that is opposed to negro
slavery as it existed in the Southern Confederacy shal be trubled with
pestilence & calamitys of all kinds & drag out the balance of their
existence in misry (&) degradation with scarsely food (&) rayment
enough to keep sole (&) body to gether and O God I pray the to direct
a bullet or a bayonet to pirce the hart of every northern Soldier that
invades southern Soil (&) after the body has Rendered up its traterish
Soul gave it a trators reward a birth in the Lake ov fires (&) Brimstone
My honest convicksion is that Every man women (&) child that has gave
aid to the abolishionist are fit Subjects for Hell I all so ask the aid
the Southern confedercy in maintaining ower rites (&) establishing the
confederate Goverment Believing in this case the prares from the wicked
will prevailth much - Amen -"

EFFINGHAM LAWRENCE, Magnolia Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

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