Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-27


He helped to bleach Hottentot's great toe.
Moved by this logic. or appalled,.
To persons ola certain turn proper,
The money came when oall'd,
I;ss:.: saa 20 foe: to
And charitsble lifts,
Printed in lists and quarterly transactions.
As thus-Elisha Brettle,
The Douag sr Lady Scanned.
Rebecca Pope,
4 bar Of soap.
The Misses HowelIs.
The Master Rushes,
Two soruboIng brushes,
A st bile broom.
A.d Mrs. Grub,
A tub.
Greas we're the sums collected
And great results IN 1sSS 9 T psStsd
According to reports
Atyearly courts,
The blacks, coIfOund them were SIS black as ever
Yes! spite of all the water sous'd aloff,
Soap, PLAIN and notified. hard and soft,
Soda and psarlssh, buck sback and sand,
And soourers in the ofice. strong and clever.
In spite ofal ths Tubing, rubbing, scrubbing,
The blacks oonf0und them. we're as black as ever
In fact, in his perennial speech,
The Chairman owned the nlggers did not bleach.
FROM being Wa shed and soaped,
elreumstanoe ne named with grief and pity:
But stIl he had the happiness 70 say,
For self and the Committee.
BY perseverlng In the present away.
And scrubblng AT the Backs from day to day,
Although ne could not PROMISE perfect WHITE
From CERTAIN symptoms that had come To light,
He hoped IN time To get them gray
LulPd by this vague assurance,
The friends and patrons Of the sable tribe
COLtInued To subscribe.
And waited, waited on with much endurance
Manv frugal sister, thrifty daughter,
Many stlnted widow. pInchIng mother
Still paid implicitly her crown per ausrter. ''''
Only 20 hear as every year came round,
That Mr. Treas urer mad sp-nt her pound
And AS she loved her sable Brother.
That Mr.. Treasurer must have another
But, spite Of pounds or gulneas,
Instead of giving any hint
Wse2e s oso a4 of t the
Only some very aged souls
Showing little gray upon their polls,
However, nothing dashed
By such repeated futures, or abashed.
The Court still met-the Chairman aud Directors.
The worthy Treasurer. who kept the chink,
And all the cash collectors;
With hundreds of that class. 70 kindly credulOus,
Wi.hoat whose help charlatan alive.
Or Bubble Company could hope To thrive,
Or busy CheyalIer. however seduious-
These good aud easy innGcents In fact.
who " llingi received chaf for corn.
pulnteu out by Butter TACT,
Still hnd a secret pleasure IN he act
VI oeing p!ucked and shorn.
However. In lorg hundreds there they were
ThIonglns the hot, and CLOSE, and dusty court,
10 near once more addresses from the Chair,
And regular report.
AEs. concluding In the usual strain,
IA shat VIII everlasting wear and tear,
The scrubbIng brushes hadn't got a hair
Inc ssin mere stumps-woud never serve
The soap was gone, the hannels all in shreds.
ne towels were worn to threads
The tubs and pals too shattered To- he menSea
a nd what was added with a denl of PAIN
But A accounts correctly would ex plaln
Tho thirty thousand pounds had been ex pendad-
The BlsckamOOrs had still been washed IN vain
"In fact, the negroes were as black as ink
Yet, stall as the committee dared to think
And hoped the proposition was not rash,
A rather free ex ssndIture Of cash"
But ere the prospect could be made more sunny
Up Jump'd q nttle, lemon ooiored man,
And with an eager stammer thus began,
Az angry earnest though II sounded funny:
what! More subscriptions. NO-DO-no-not
LOU have had time-tIme-tIme enough to try.
iney wont come white then why-why-why,
WY, SAID the Cha rman, with accent ban1,
Az kenue waving Of his dexter hand.
~ Must We nave more drOss, and dirt, and dust
Tsone hnhy lucre IN a word, more gOld!-
4, Hs Wy, Az, Yer! easily 10 told,
Because humanity declares w a ,nr,st,
,sm uo"ea the negroes till we've nearly KILLED
And hrdins that we cannot wash than vbit..
6nt snII the magnitude ofends the sight
We mean 10 gtId 'Cm