citerzens

Updated: April 30, 2025

"And Pa says, 'Ma, he says, 'how about Willyum coming along, and you bet I'm listenin' hard that time. "And Ma says, 'I'm afraid, she says, 'about them 'Talians. S'pose they got to fighting, anybody might stick a steeletter into the boy, she says. "'Pardon me, madam, says Jimmy, 'you are doing a great wrong, he says, 'to our noble feller citerzens

William Banks - William Adolphus Turnpike

Dey's two t'ousan' Eyetalians, five hunered niggers, more'n a t'ousan' Poles, and de res' is all kinds. An' every dern one of em's eddicated!" "Educated! Really, you don't mean it?" "Eddicated! You kin betcher boots. De performin' dogs in the circus aint a patch to dem free and intelligent Amerikin citerzens.

Lemuel Ely Quigg - Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular: Phases of Metropolitan Life