The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-02-08
A Parody for the Times.

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Yesterday, as sat writing
OF the wars and of the fighting,
And was getting tired of telling,
e What had oft been told before;
Saying things thought most cutting,
Suddenly there came butting,
And woody head was stuck in,
Stuck in at my otfice-door,
IT'S some darkey with a voucher,
Thought I, writing before
Only this and nothing more -tJsi
was tired of darkey capers,
And bent close above my papers, a4
Hoping thus the black intruder
Would go wander from my door,
But hoped and wished most yainly .; 100 - - -.
For be Knocked and butted, plainly ZIG 81
Showing that he had determined Es ss4
g 80 To have speech upon the hoor;s - =
Showing that he really though he
Had right upon the floor: +
May be this and something more.
IS Come in, E said I in yexation.- so
For hated, like the nation,
Thus to have the fellow humping
'sCome in, Darkey, / implore. re
What, the dickens is the matter, '--- W.
That you make this awful CHATTER,
Make this horrid dim and batter
Thus against my Office door,
Do you want to be slave, and F-T-F. FFfEFr.
Serve your master as before? 81 q F-|
Quoth the Niger, "Nevermore.
I'm the spirit of a fellow
Who was murdered at Fort Pillow:
Murdered d When begged for mercy;
Pinned by bayonets to the floor;
And I've come to ask the reason.
Is this now proper season,
TO have rebels who have strove 10
Stab the nation to the core
Taken in, bid freely enter
Through the nations open door?
Only this and nothing more. ~
I'VE have fought as do the brayest
For your hves, your home, your safety;
Bones OF colored men lie strewn a.
Long the Mississippis shore
Black and white are bound together
Mutual suffering forms the tether.
Now ask, should we be ever
Made mere vassels as before?
Answer that and if nothing more"
" History tells us of a nation.
That, when owing its salvation
To the slaves who nobly fought to
Keep the foeman at the door, 49,
Granted freedom to such heroes;
But, sir, even bloody heroes
Never granted pardon freely
To the "rebs " a thousand score
While the sefts remained in bondage
= Whipped and cursed at as before
Danish that, if nothing more.
Ask your soldiers who extended
Help and succor as they wendell
Dubious paths mid southern forests, sf
Faint and weary, sick and sore
Onward. praying God to save them
And return them as he gave them t
To their homes and friends once more!
Ask them this, if nothing more.
: <ASh tucli1i Nutn IIcdru Tue
Rending sky and earth asunder,
And the black and white stood close al
Is Lied amidst the battles roar,
If the fear ofgun or halter
Ever caused us once to falter,
If fighting reputation
Did not greet the cOlored corpsP
Ask them this, and one thing more.
: Ask them. now the war is ended, .&44.
And the nag has been defended
By two hundred thousand colored GEr.f
Men who from the Antique Corps.
If they'll push us from GU places,
To maka room fol- rebel faces,
WILL THEY HAVE US VOTE OR THOSE WHO
BROUGHT SUCH HORRORS TO THEIR DOOR?
- Ask them that there nothing more
Thus the darkey said. aud started,
And the walls before him parted l#..
But he waved his hand and said, with
Look meier had seen before,
" Good-by. white man, as nation,
God has given salvation,
And, UP THERE the hublest private
Sis. in all the colored corps