1868, more and more happens
Andrew Johnson, US Prez, is impeached
The Meiji Restoration in Japan
Brings to an end the shogunate, to teach
Modern ways to the samurai. The snatch
Of North American Native lands progressed
As nine thousand Navajos had to march
To their inadequate new place of rest
And reservation. Trades Union Congress
Met in Manchester, so the north could stand
Up for itself in motion and in speech
The previous year the Manchester Martyrs
Were hanged for being seditious Fenians
Now London watched the last public rope stretch
(The last line refers to the last public hanging in Britain, of Michael Barrett, probably another false conviction and execution of an Irish nationalist)
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