As a matter of fact, the scan is here:


https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d01368792z&view=1up&seq=112

Much of it is plagiarized or directly adapted from the speech of a raftsman in Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" (1883). That, in turn, was inspired by a fictitious speech of Representative David Crockett in 1883, written in the style of Col. Nimrod Wildfire, protagonist of the stage hit "The Lion of the West" (1831), by James K. Paulding.

None of the above texts are remotely bawdy. The 1897 version appears to be reprinted from some untraced source.

"State Sen. Cassius M. Johnson" is entirely fictitious. This note, however, from Law Notes (Northport, L.I.) (Apr. 1908) is apposite:

"George Washington Williams, one of the most prominent members of the Arkansas bar, died in Little Rock on February 29, at the age of fifty-one. In 1891, while he was a member of the State legislature, he achieved wide fame by reason of a speech on a bill proposing to change the name of Arkansas."

Also of interest:

The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) (June 28, 1904):

"To the Editor:--The resolution introduced at the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans to revise and modernize Dixie, calls to mind an incident said to have taken place in Congress several years ago. Some member introduced a bill to change the name of Arkansas, as it was sometimes called Arkansas and sometimes Arkansaw. A big double-jointed member from Arkansas arose and with uplifted hand and a voice vibrating with intense emotion said, 'Change the name of Arkansaw, God Almighty damn!' When I hear people speak of modernizing Dixie, I feel like exclaiming with this gentleman from Arkansas.

"[Signed] James Dempsey Bullock, Wilson, N.C., June 25."

And earlier still, if only as a one-liner:

"Knoxville Daily Tribune" (May 3, 1891), p. 2: “Change the name of Arkansaw? Blankety-blank!”

"The Headlight" (Pittsburg, Kans.) (Aug. 11, 1887): “In the language of the gentleman who was asked to vote for the proposition to change the name of Arkansas, Never!!”