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... career. If we would particu- Iarise any passage, we take the following. Speaking of slavery, the author truly inquires- ''What have we gained By our encouragement of slavery? We see war's devastations, even now; The smoking towns, the groaning battle-fields ...

Literary Reviews

... 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; ...

SELECTED POETRY

... 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 ...

Poetry

... Varttv. AMERICAN SLAVERY. Loom on who will in apathy, And stifle, they who car, The sympathies, the hopes, the words, That make man truly man; Let those whose hearts are dungeoned up With interest or with ease, Consent to hear with quiet pulse Of loathsome ...

LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN INSTITUTION IN THE MUSIC HALL

... 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 ...

Selected Poetry

... 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 ...

Reviews

... 125. 3IANLcL PER:EI:iRL. 1V F. C. Adams. LorLon: Ceerk,, LoelOi., S' Cs. Tills is a narrative illustrating, tbe cefect of slaVery, iil the vitiation of public sentimient, the obstruction of the law, and the frutration of jttstice. TIhle inlimrisoninent ...

Literary Notices

... Indies and American Slavery is very clear and very able, although some of the writer's conclusions on the slavery question may be disputed. He writes calmly, and without the wild enthusiasm of the fools who would destroy not only slavery, but with it the ...

POETRY

... hast the power no tyrants know- The powei that justice can bestow; Then lay the bloody despot low, And buist the bonds of slavery! Tie not dismayed if fortune frown; '1hils shalt thou keep the tyrant down! On! on! and thon thy work shalt crown Amid the ...

Poetry

... the spirit of man as of oIL; The objects are changed. but the heart is the same, And the idols are honour and gold; That slavery, long ago banished our realm, Mlay, alas ! yet be seen on the land, 'Where widows and orphans are struggling for bread, And ...

Selected Poetry

... His long-worn brends, that now were burst, I-is knee hae ne'er made ftexilo; lie spoke the wrong which he had nursed Ihi slavery and exile. ?inoe Sannlaers hal disclosed their buds, And still the Chieftain thundered Against the stoalers of the stlds, ...

Reviews

... Ages, and a review of Upham's Life tl of Washington are the productions of no unskilled pens. The concluding paper on Slavery in America, presents some peculiar views on that subject, being a d sort of half-way argument between that of the slave- ...