... SELECTED POETRY. SLAVERY. Ba BERNARD DATRON. M1ast thou ever asked thyself WHAT it is TO BE A SLAVE? Bought and sold for sordid Pelf, From the cradle to the grave I 'Tis to kritw the transient powers E'en of muscle, flesh, and bone, Cannot, in thy happiest ...

... Scriptures, which, this writer asserts, prove, not only by negative but positive evidence, the morality of slavery ! ?? even goes so far as to say that slavery, in its extreme condition, is not ne- cessarily a public evil, but may be conducive to the public good; ...

... slavc-hloding congregation, andn was him- self the possessor of blayrs-tilso, that lie had avowedly tie- fended the practice of slavery from the New Testament . It hdail nin been rionourcd that Mr. Campbell's religions opi. nionbs wvere hiet erodox. At the hour ...

... liindling drops of lovinig-i indness, And knowledge ponr, From shore to shiore, Light on the eyes of montal Whimidiess. All slavery, warfare, lies, ndl wrongs, All vijoe aid crlino miglit dio together; Anm wine and corn, To each man born, Bc free as warmth ...

... Education, from the l2foderator, Minister, and Elders of the Seceding Presbytery of Ty rone; for the 2'nacediute Abolition :of Slavery, from itle Wesleyan Methodists of Glenarm; for the same,'from the Wesleyan Methodists of Billy, in the county of Antrim; for ...

... vainly bled to save; The brave who still would gladly die to free The native c6untry they shall never see,- Dear, even in slavery. Weep, weep for these; but let no senseless tear Flow for the dead. Exempt from grief and fear, The land that bore them pilloweth ...

... glow of that ministering glory is gone! Buit the mountains Iteg thorions old mountains ! no plonAIlI Stamps the stigma of slavery's mark on their brow; And their proud revelation of scorn still they throw On the things that are under dominion below ! Come ...

... could make mc speak. 'Twas done-my name and nature changed, lor love of hateful gold, 'With many victims bound and rang'd, To slavery I was sold. I'm slave to any man, or all, Yet do not toil for pelf, And, thonylh I'm ready at the call, I cannot work myself ...

... are the woes of slaves; Tley glare from the ahYss; They cry, from unknown gravres, We .are the witnesses I f~.Ponils on Slavery, bt IH. IV. Longfelliow. T[IE LONULY HEART. Turzy trll me I nilm hbaey. atd I try to ttit k it true Th:ey *aY I 1rvc no erture ...

... icatiolns, and poetry. It is cnibellislled with a fine steel engraving of Sir Tholuas Fowell Buxton, the great abolitiolist of slavery, illustraltive of a vsell-written nemoir of that very reillarkable man and cminent lphlilanthropist. ...

... despot foes impart; Thy sons, with wisdom's light illumd,^ And legislative skillxrefined, An attitude subliine assumed'; While slavery's hosts around combined To crush thy virtuous energies, ' In right's defence and sacred home, The patent of indulgent skies ...

... gentleman and his flock, who are senlsitively alive to the evil of, in tile remotest way, appearing to sancltion American slavery, I wvould feel obliged for their sakes and nti own, by your eliciting vlletiler Mr. Wright and his Congregation be either ...