San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly

CaLokie

Tweeting the Lincoln Douglas Debate

LittleGiant

Athens had both slavery & democracy. So why try 2 fix something which ain’t broken.
 
HonestAbe
America cannot remain half Slave & half Free. A nation divided against itself cannot stand.
 
LittleGiant
As a rail-splitter Lincoln divided wood; as a senator he’d divide this nation. 
 
HonestAbe
Intellect of Little Giant matches stature. Thinks Mason Dixon Line is border between the U.S and Canada.
 
JohnCalhoun
Liberal Lincoln didn’t support our Mexican War troops. If he’d had his way, Texans wouldn’t have won right 2 own slaves or speak English.
 
HenryDavidThoreau
I saw Mex war land grab 4 slavery, refused 2 pay poll tax & jailed.  Emerson asked why was I in jail. I asked him why wasn’t he in jail. 
 
HonestAbe
Douglas wouldn’t mind it if America the free becomes a land of slavery from “sea 2 shining sea.”
 
LittleGiant
Dishonest Abe pals with terrorists like the bloody abolitionist, John Brown.
 
JohnBrown
The trouble with Kansas ain’t me but tyrants fighting 2 make it a slave state.
 
LittleGiant
The apostle Paul returned runaway slaves 2 their owners. Abe’s abolitionist buddies aid their escape.
 
HonestAbe
The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal.
 
SojournerTruth
What about women? Man had nothin’ 2 do with the birth of Jesus & ain’t Mary a woman?
 
LittleGiant
If liberal Lincoln has his way, negroes would dance with whites at 4th of July picnics.
 
SojournerTruth
I ain’t dancin’ with no white dude till he learn 2 keep the beat 
and stop steppin’ on my feet.
 
ChiefJusticeTaney
Blacks have no rights which the white man is bound to respect.
 
FrederickDouglass
What to the slave is the 4th of July?
 
HarrietTubman
This train bound 4 glory...Get on board brothers & sisters.
 
JulietWardHowe
GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord & his truth goes marching on...