The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-11
For the Register.l
FRED. DOUGLAS.
A NIGGARDLY RHYME.
By o, SHAW.

y have YOU heard OF the Douglas, Fred;
And the very great things which lie lately said
Things which entitle his kinky head
TO the triple leaf crown of glory;
Which shall long remain in this beauteous land
As a classic appeal from a oontraband,
An African masterpiece gloomiiy grand
And a climax III oratoTy. rdh
Fred is a sort of JACK OF all trades, .Ht -
Rlack in the face as the ace of spades.
And hlacker al heart than the svren maids
We read of in heathen mythology;
An adept in all the political oreeds
HI, follows where Governor Andrews leads
And boldly argues the mixing OF breeds
Bv the new fanngled miscegenology. +.
ae addressed d crowd in a Northern State
whore every man who feels called 10y Fate
Nav wake some morning and lind himself great
In that fee old Northern dominion,
lybere every wight that the earth does tread,
Whether his hair is straight or curled on his head
Be he black or white or claybank red
Has a right TO express his opinion.
Fred came out rough as rat tail file;
His curly locks were smOt thered in lie
While broadcloth cut in the latest style A..
EuvelOped his handsome figure;
Some ounces OF musk ana eau de cologne
Were carefully rOund his carcass thrown
r, =. .ie that snt which is AL his own,
TIE peculiar OGor DIggeI
lis mt fair to say that he made a hit
For with quite hash of Republican wit
Which Philips had formerly mace to tit.
His speech was in nterlarded;
n, scanned the political world around
And every man that ever he found
With a promiI ent place on conservative ground,
Got terribly blackguarded
He handled the anglo Saxon race
without any gloves. for heightened space
And talked while blscker grew his face
To prove dear Sambo better
Than any man in this land OF the free,
W1oclu't trace his genealogical tree
To,gc time when Noah, rs one Of three,
Cave Ham the blackest letter.
He SAID Jhat Davis, Jefferson ID,
That apple OF dis ord on LibeItyS tree
Need have no fears he would go scot free
They never would dare to harm him,
And that dear delectable Captain Wirtz,
II he ouly boldly his case asserts,
Never will get his Just deserts,
His punishment needn't alarm MIN.
But Mister johnson the man nj the helm.
Who is said to rule this mighty realm
&c dill most particularly overwhelm
And gave him an awfnl banging,
lie said that JEFF though a traitor at heart
Had acted his role from tho very start,
But that Andy johnson had shirked his part,
And cheated us out OF Our hanging
And he also said twas shame TO feel
that the brave black men with arms OF steel
Sb~nId he sIiGhted at last by this commOnwoal
Now that she didn't need EN-,
And added though it almost stuck III MS lnioa'
That ANDY johnson had killed thar 0'te
And he wouldn't give the hole in his coat
For Sambo political freedom
And he then wouad up IN thunder tones,
While his chequered hearers gave way TO .. o~hs
By saving I'd blush to the very bones
I'll were one Of the whites,
To think that now, when the war Is oei.
Those freedmen bold who so Oraveiy bore
Tie colors which gave Peace unto our shores .
Should be cheated out of their rights
But honest Fred have you ever thought
That lust a few Tor the land who fought,
ere white as those who formerly sought
From Britains rule TO free it,
And if the white man neglects to blush
A he ought and should, then the very gush
II anger vi give you sanguine nush
And Mstes johnson may see Il
Poor honest Fred It's pity too
10 cheat YOU OF that which is Justly yOlr due
And Mister johnson should see that you
Are raised to your proper station,
\ piece of rope about twelve ieet long
With a moose at the end and middling strong
viii give you that which YOU sought SO long
4 respectable elevation.