Feinberg/Whitman
Box 34  Folder 1
Literary File Prose "Whip Your Horses" [1884?].  A.MS.draft.69
1888 Whip Your Horses: prose A. MS. (1p. 12x15 1/2 cm.) 

Written in ink of a faded sheet of paper, clipped off at the bottom,
with 'see Notes April 14, 1888' (in Traubel's hand in the 
upper left-hand corner) and 'exact size' and '1884' in pencil (not
Whitman's hand) on the verso. Uncorrected, with no changes, 67
words:

Go on, my dear Americans, whip your horses to the utmost--
excitement! money! politics! -- open all your valves and let her go
--Swing, whirl with the rest -- you will soon get under such momentum
you can't stop if you would. Only make provision betimes,
old States and new States, for several thousand insane asylums. 
You are in a fair way to create a whole nation of lunatics.See notes April 14, 1888

Go on, my Dear Americans,
whip your horses to the utmost - 
excitement! money! politics! - open
all your valves and let her go - swing,
whirl with the rest - you will soon
get under such momentum you can't
stop if you would. Only make provision
betimes, old states and new
states, for several thousand insane
asylums. You are in a fair way
to create a whole nation of lunatics.Exact size
1884