FAMILY HISTORY: POETRY Collection written by Elsie Strawn ARMSTRONG
  
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  Poor old Father Abraham!
      They have got him in a snap,
  The Abolitionists have fettered him,
      And caught him in a trap.
  
  Notwithstanding his remonstrance,
      He said, "I have no right,"
  But still they kept a teasing him
      Almost both day and night.
  
  He said, "I have no power
      And I have no inclination,"
  But still they kept on urging him
      To make his proclamation.
  
  He said, "'Twill do no good,
      It can be of no use,
  Like the Pope's bull against the comet
      Neither good nor harm produce."
  
  But it has produced much evil,
      As we with horror see the fruits,
  Of the riots and the butchery
      Caused by the heathen brutes.
  
  Must our little orphan girls,
      A sacrifice be made
  To heathen, brutal lust,
      By war an orphan made?
  
  Whose fathers bled and died
      To set the heathen free,
  That's the use he makes,
      The wretch, of liberty.
  
  Must they be let loose among us,
      I ask, with awful fear,
  Will not God, or nature,
      Prevent their ravage here?
  
  So near the orang outang,
      But one small link between,
  Must they be running loose
      And near our children seen?
  
  O, start them to the South,
      With a quick and hurried step,
  Where they may by their master
      Be in some order kept.