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Op1n1on of the Federal Supreme Court. 8. When we're pointed to a law that contains upon its face No scintilla of express discrimination based on race, You must make it very clear To the judges sitting here That its necessary working will de faeto Cause in every case the eligible black to Lose his vote; And, although we are judicially quite knowing, You can hardly think in this case that we're going To assume at once, upon a Mere conjecture, that the honor Of the South is such a 'goner As you denote; So, although this law may really hold a fake, We are not prepared of such a fact to take Judicial note; And, though Constitutional error is abhorrent, There's no color-able claim that tve must warrant The darkey's vote!

For we draw A full hand!) And now that you are on our side, (Look away! Look away!) We hereby solemnly decide To give up Willie Bryan! (Look away! Look away! For all the courts of Zion Can ne'er Compare With the Court that we rely on!) 10.

Chorus of Northerners, to the air of "Marehing through Georgia." Where's the constitution now? That's what we don't see. Why did we stir up a row To make the darkies free? What was all the powwow From Atlanta to the sea, When we went marching through Georgia?

Moral. 9Chorus of Southerners, to the air of " Dixie." We grumbled at our Yankee bench; But Time can every quarrel quench. (Look away! Look away! To the law Of the land!) Such rulings make our hearts beat high; The julep-glass we now drain dry! (Look away! Look away!

But p'raps we're better out of it; The amendment's now " trun down "; The good old rules will hardly fit Our new Imperial crown! With Luzon, Cuba, Sandwich Isles, and populations brown, Americans will all turn into Rajahs. Hurrah! hurrah! A new discovery! It is'nt law — That all men should be free! Times are changed, as you must see, from what they used to be. When we went marching through Georgia!