"The Abolition Show"

There were Ohio Yankees of Western Reserve
Who live upon cheese ginger cake and 
                       preserve
Abolition's their doctrine their
 prop and their staff
They'll fight for a sixpence
 An hour and a half
   Ri tu ral, +c.

On the seventeenth day of this
 month you must know
Took place in our city
 the great baby show
Twas
They shut up the factories
 and let out the 
    schools
For the Seventeenth day
 was the day of all fools