American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-01-09
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OAlDlGIis2'S ADDRESS,
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Another year has passed away,
The tide of time brooks no delay,
We hail again the natal day,
Of another newborn year.
Now let me ask, for ask | will
What have we done of good or i'll,
In all the twelve months past?
Let not your hearts cry peace be still,
But stand up boldly, Jack and Gill,
And tell out to the last.
I could not sleep If I should fail,
70 tell you here little tale;
Told by my grand ma who was frail,
Because she had grown old.
She'd smooth her cap and wipe her specks
AS though she would mankind perplex,
A trait with all the female sex,)
And this is the tale she told
There was rat sat By hole,
And he was black as any coal,
His neck was thick, his tail was long,
There never was rat so strong;
That hole he guarded night and day,
And drove all other rats away.
This rat was big, the hole was small,
So into it, he could not crawl
Yet he could see that down below,
Could hold like him score or so;
lie starved until he got at last,
Quite through without his sticking fast.
BY dint of pulling down below,
OF fifty smaller rats or so;
And when quite thro' he puff d and blow'd
and very much importance showed
He boasted this he boasted that,
lie was highly favored rat;
He had been born as small as they,
But look at what he was to- day.
Big rats outside he used up brown,
lie was q rat of high renown;
And he would use them up still more,
By starving them outside the door;
Or better, he'd enlarge the hole,
And let them tumble in, by jole,
And maybe In the fall they'd break
Their ugly heads, or make them ache,
And then, though they might not atone,
They would at least leave him alone
But when the smaller rats perceived,
That they by him were thus deceived;
They wagged their heads and answered
nay.
Now every rat must have his day,
And you've had yours, you cowardly hack,
Then all pitched on him in crack;
And cursed within their very soul,
The time they pulled him in their hole:
They caught and bound the tricky elf,
And laid him by upon shelf.
Now this is the tale that grand ma told,
A tale that's worth its weight in gold
Nor loses aught by growing old,
Or being oft retold.
Tt is the history of a rat,
Fac simile of man,
The history of the human race,
Since e'er the world began.
But make the application close,
And true as he loves brandy,
10 it you'll see the history of
Our circle swinging Andy:
Into our Nations Capitol,
He burrowed like a rat;
Then tried to let the rebels in,
Just like that other rat.
He swung around the circle once,
And done it like rat;
And the best tina. can be said of him,
He is treach rous rat.
I'D like to sing little song,
About the things that were
-Lust listen, twill not, take me long,
Dear madam and dear sir.
We once had negro slavery, .
Our fathers bought and sold,
And bartered of their flesh and blood.
For silver and for gold.
They ground the poor into the dust,
Because their skins were black,
And more, because they were too
proud to do their work themselves, in
fact they were aristocrats, regular
Egyptians, who'd rather starve than
work, and SO they piled the burden on
The poor dumb negro's back.
But that, is neither here nor there, !
Dear madam and dear sir;
1t is just one and only one,
OF the many things that we're.
We had great rebellion oGce,
When JEFF and his vile crew,
Pitched in, on poor old Uncle Sam,
And thought to put him through.
They drew their blades and fred their
guns,
And down to battle ran;
But Uncle Sans brave boys in blue
let slip some of their big guns upon
them, and there never was a worse
Wiped set of men,
Since first the world tegan.
But that, is neither here nor there,
Dear madam .and dear sir
1t is just one and only one,
OF the many things that we're.
The.freneh once came to Mexico,
Aud offered very fair,
To fashion castles after those,
Which "nap" built in The air.
They built them up to tumble down,
And made mix for MAX"