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... While all your friends sincerely GRIEVE That you should misapply your time, In writing such infernal rhyme. SONNETS ON SLAVERY. By Robert Sosdtey, LL.D. Poet Laereat, dyc. -ihere are yet two methods remaining by which this traffic will probably be ...

Original Poetry

... rn'ek'd at your grualis arsrl insulted your Ciod. Ye haave solseoh le It not your offspring be Born heirs to the chains of slavery, Toiling with pairs the flsrilage to wviln, That a straiger mosy gather the hliarvest ill. Ye have daughters-they live but ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... commonwealth; and signifies that the candidate is, -if possible, fonder of slavery than the slaveholders themselves, and, that le will be ready to do any shameful work which slavery is too proudeor too ositi to do for itself.. By the death of. General Harrison ...

Poetry

... thee art reea ing Truths which glow in Freedom's light. Not In outwora seeming only Art then spotless, white, arld fair, Slavery's touch hsatis never cursed thee, Freedom, lo tier arms, trath nursed thee, And bestow'd a beauty rare. Freemen greiw the ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Memorials of John Mackintosh.' By Norman Macleod, D.D. Popular Edition. (Post 8vo, pp. 483.) Strahan and Co. POLITics.-' The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and its Martyrs.' By Eliza Wigham. (Post 8vo, pp. 168.) A. W. Bennett. EsSAYS.-' Subtle Brains and Lissom ...

WHAT MAKES A MAN

... kind;th A spirit firm, erect, and free, T 'That never basely bends a knee in* That will not bear a feather's weight to Of slavery's chain for small or great a That truly speaks from God within, an And never makes a league with sin; au That snaps the fetters ...

LITERATURE

... see that the abolition of slavery through- i out the States was the only safe and effective way of I bringing the war to an end, This volume of speeches is intended to serve as a a contribution to the history of the anti-slavery I struggle in America under ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Poems on Slavery. By Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow. Owen: Cambridge (Mass:ichnssets, ?? 1842. With this little volume, the work of an American: writer whose courage is equal to his intellect, we have received some papers on the present ...

LITERARY NOTES

... it. General Warren Keifer 1n to include himself among their number wivt]] a work entitled Slavery and Four Years of War. It is a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaign and battles of the Civil War ...

LITERATURE

... require in this I country to enable us to form a just estimate of t slavery in its influence upon society generally. The author does not indulge in exaggerated denuncia- e tions of slavery, neither does he gloss over its t hideous features ; he simply recounts ...

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... in words that touched a sympathetic cord in the hearts of his hearers, Mr. Beecher told about the child, She was born in slavery, he said. A benevolent woman, who was nursing our sick soldiers in the hospital at Fairfax, found her sore, and tattered ...