[AS VIEWED IN THE WEST.]
This is _our_ business, understand!
You Eastern folks, with tempers bland
All get your views at second-hand.
We are the ones that take the brunt
Of every lively Indian-hunt,
So don't be angry if we're blunt.
If any body's scalped it's _us!_
So we've a well-earned right to cuss,
And you've _no_ right to make a fuss.
Talk as you please about their "rights;"
That don't include their coming nights,
And cutting out our lungs and lights.
You get your wife and children shot!
(Here it might happen, like us not,)
You'll make your mind up on the spot.
"Humanity" 's played out for _you!_
You've got some active work to do;
No doubt you'll see it well put through.
Until you've settled that small bill,
(As honorable debtors will,)
We fancy you will not keep still.
You will admit the tender plea
Of "broken faith;" but when you see
Your Red Skin, you won't let him be!
Just so with us. We don't go back
Of _our_ affair! We were not slack
In justice to this Devil's pack!
They settle with the wrong concern;
And as they never, _never'll_ learn,
We shoot 'em, and don't care a _dern!_
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[Illustration: EDITORIAL WASHING-DAY IN NEW-YORK.]