NEW HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
AN ORIGINAL AMERICAN VERSION.
By L. Whitehead, Sr.
Designs by H. L. Stephens and G. G. White.
New York:
Beadle and Company, Publishers, 118 William Street
1865
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TO THOSE,
WHO,
LOVING THEIR BELOVED WELL,
LOVE THEIR
COUNTRY NONE THE LESS,
THIS WEDDING
OF THE OLD AND THE NEW
IS ADDRESSED:
TO THOSE,
WHO,
LOVING THE RIGHT AND TRUE,
HATING WRONG
AND,
SCORNING ALL SUBSERVIENCY TO PRIDE,
THIS TRIBUTE
TO
PATRIOTISM AND FREE LABOR
IS DEDICATED.
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This is Jack, the Laborer.
He has worked with his muscles, his brain and his pen,
For ages, to ransom the children of men.
Reformer in politics, morals, and law,
The noblest example the world ever saw.
The true type of progress for each generation,
He works out his problems in every nation.
For every man he does what he can,
And never diverges one jot from his plan;
He lays his foundation in human equality,
And this, he affirms, is the only right polity.
To old Plymouth Rock, with the Pilgrims he came,
And the wilderness echoed the notes of his fame;
And he worked with a will, till the top-stone was laid,
In the Temple of Freedom, the house he had made.
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A tenement House, on a National plan,
So Jack had designed, ere t