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BY WILLSHIRE, Let right prevail; all sham monarchs From thrones be quickly hurl’d ; And the hands that cast the ballots Have might to rule the world. Away with superstition, To Sheol be it driven , And let the freedom of the mind Give foretaste of Heaven. Let honest toilers now arise And lead Pa freedom’s van, And all noble rights of man The not Let false ideas fade away, Of right divine, of kings, And people, in their strength, rebel Against all thieving rings, Let Drefom's banner be a ke pana And the of honest jabeL Be symbolical of worth a caste ane mstice le ws, Ballots tnbet scemetclions Except crime be the cause, Give full freedom to the Negro, The South to vote its choice. And the ballot be the guerdon To voice the equal voice Let Ku Klux bands be master’d And into prisons whirl’d; And the ‘honest ballot be the Power to rule the world. And the ballots fairly r counted. Show justice North and South, Since the right of all to ballot Came at the cannon’s mouth. And with every man a voter, The humble and the great Be the pillars and supporters To dignify the State. New Guia ee, Be stones, nuriate, nitrate, ground Fred. Burt Co.
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The Penny Press
Middletown, Connecticut, US
Thu, Jul 07, 1887
Page 2
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