Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-08-12
SELECT POETRY.
From the ConRregatlonalist
The Monkeys Indignation Meeting,
NJ mrs. MARY sPRrSo WALKER, HARTroRr

MARY sPn1No WALKER, HAnTFORD.
The show was over, and the crowd had gone,
The white tent gltatned In the setting sum
For the jam and heat and terrible din
There was silence, and coolness, and peace
within
Each wretched beast, who all day long
Mocked and stared at, and jeered By the
thrOhg,
Poked At BY pataspl, stirred with stick,
Weary and sOte, dlsgusted and sick,
Was only too glad in his corner TO creep
And lose for awhile, all hls sorrowe in sleep.
Only deep sound now and then,
Game from the African lions den,
For the noble beast had forgotten his pain,
And in dreams was treading the jungle again.
The bars Of his cage rose straight and high,
In lofty palm trees against the sky,
And the narrow space of a prison floor
Stretched to the length Of his native shore;
King of the forest, free and bfave,
One hour he wandered-then woke-a slave
In the monkeys cage meeting was called;
There were officers chosen and duly installed.
An ancient baboon having taken the chair,
Stated the object that brought them there
my children" said he, "in this aged breast
Love for my kind has long found rest
To keep our honor and good name bright,
Has been my labor and chief delight.
Mine is no narrow and selfish aim,
Monkeys love of every name.
In the baboon, chimpanzee and ape l see
Fair offshoots from one family tree.
Bnuoth br hairy, great OF small
Long tailed or short tailed love them all;
And keenly feel disgrace and shame,
Offered, oh monkeys, TO your good name,
For one of the twO-legged tribe called men
A fellow with plausible tohgue and peh=
Is trying to Prove, with bluster and fuss,
That he, and his race descended from u.s.
Think of it, monkeys! The ill-natured throng,
Awkward In gait and silly of tongue,
AT 50 much head, strutting round at our
show;
(What precious small heads on the top of
them grow,
Coming, l say, here to cape and to stare,
Our beautiful forms with their own to COM
pare,
Then Fastening home, their ancestry to trace,
And father on us the degenerate race.
Were the theory true, It's the monkey "de4
sccnds,"
AL, what fall would he there, my friends.
ON say, We balloons, shall we tamcly sit down
Or hurl back this insult with righteous scoin
This meeting is called to consider the ques
ton,
Please giveit, dear children, your earnest at
tcntion."
An angry chatter their eitiotioh expressed,
Tnc feeling was deep, though plainly sup
u-L.I
plesseu, ..,,
A"u 'he mohhey next culleu on the stahu 10
-, 'ake,
A., ~ rs 700 mucn eHcileu ms speech 10 make,
III "e 'u' ueu "psiue uo"h, anu huhS ny Ills
TAN,
| And threw three fphaps over the rail-
9.ooo T,,', .Mice on ms Pyramlalcai mead
i"e" iis!ns fefeoheu' iooheu auout MIN anu
s"iu-
"Jv ;n;rrod c,,lor, r,o,,,,o,,,
7 h,vn9, words :" ,aI,
The gri.f and ;nSiynat;on
Thu In th;s bosnp, ,,,.,,ii
VIA, have we dnno INV h-e,,,s-,n.
,To mcri, Tho d;snrace
~ peopnns an creaIion
WIN ,'n ,lis npos,a'I iace c,,.
Mny, M mani, mankinds l,t,y daily ioilles
AZ AZ wv .@ho"Sii w i"hu "n1 iafo'
Dld you ever yer see monkey
M T0 IKE ,.',,' ,oo' ,I,,, uenhVe ,
'vfE Do me sirk nIs .tars lialr nincs on us bsoas
Ihight boots ana chokers wearG
~ ~ NC "uy u'h''s w sho"'
ne eiephaht 10 see,
n' I,,ou e,u. ra1,'u aIHu', an" Ian ie'h"ihs
Drink iusil oil and strychnine,
vile weed chew and snuff?
blander our neighbofs, sell our votes,
Or ballot boxes stuff?
Do monkeys go on benders.'
Sr cue Tor divorcer
Forever talking horse?
Do monkeys run for Congress,
Or to lawyer go?
Eat pork, or cheat the printer?
(Cheeringi and cries Of-No)
Then since to apt tnelr follies
And all our faults in contrast