Poem on Grant from the La Crosse Daily Democrat August 19, 1868
During the Civil War time, the General Ulysses Grant accused the Jews of illegal trading as a class in general and ordered the expulsion of Jews in his military district, the territories of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.
This poem was an attempt by the Democratic press to get Jewish voters.
Poem about Grant in the La Crosse Daily Democrat August 19, 1868 reproduced in Joakim Isaacs, Candidate Grant and the Jews, American Jewish Archives, April 1965
Who drove the Hebrews from his Camp,
Into the Alligator swamp
Where everything was dark and damp?
Ulysses
Who wrothy at those faithless Jews
Who kept "pa's" share of Cotton dues,
All further permits did refuse?
Ulysses
Who licensed chaps that would divide
With father Jesse, Argus-eyed,
Who claimed the hair and eke the hide?
Ulysses .