To The Honorable JAMES ROLPH, JR., Mayor of San Francisco For His True Patriotism In Donating and Personally Presenting A Silken Flag To Company "A," Ninth California Colored Volunteers As a Token of Esteem and Loyalty of His Colored Fellow Citizens. Flag of the free, our sable sires Have borne thee oft before Into hot battles' hell-lit fires, Against the fiercest foe. When first he shook his shaggy mein, And made the welkin ring, Brave Attucks fell upon the Plain, Thy stripes first crimsoning!…
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