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THE LIBERTY BELL

... Comle, then, that bright and benignant time, When LIBERTY S blessed BELL, All earth re-echoing it, shall chime Slavery's final knell; And Slavery's dreary tales be told, As asmythic-page of old! - ...

Original

... coalition's might: lndign~jt, from suchs force, seem Justice turn'd-. fehfstt'd them victors, hut their prowess epurn'd; Whilst Slavery's traumpet scream'd along the skies- i' Bhold where Freedom-coflqitr'(l Freedom-dies. Weep, Freerisen, weep ;-shed tears ...

LITERATURE

... of slavery in moulding the opinions of our people, as well as in shaping the destinies of l our country. I Mr. Greeley pursues the only philosophical or rational course in dealing with the history of I slavery as the history of secession. Slavery has ...

Poetry

... Though your labours cloth her nobles, The monarch on the throne, Yet, bereft, ye are left In slavery to groan., While the 'wealthy revel proudly, Still in slavery ye groan. in battle field conteniding With the might of England's foes, Your fathere won those ...

LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN CONTEST.*

... vile an institution as slavery, it would seem that we ought correspondinglyto admire writ like Mr. George Livermore and the Rev. Baptist Noel, the one of whom fires a whole park of Scriptural artillerys slave-holders and slavery, while the other devotea ...

LITERATURE

... to nm abolish slavery throughout the Dutch colonies. Onr{ the first day of last J ulythlat great object was effected for, by all act of the Dutch legislature, I duly ratitled by the king, it was decreed that, from 01 that (late, slavery sbould cease on ...

Original Poetry

... orgilnail VPatrop. ON THE ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING Of to-day, hastily dissolved, as no business could be done in conse- quence of the clamour of a certain party inimical to the object of it, but which, though smothered, no man can say wvas still-born. I will ...

POETRY

... the tyrant dare not bring his slave. PROTEST A(GAINST SLAVERY. The following declaration of the Independent, Baptist, and Methodist Ministers, in the county of Dorset, on the subject of colonial slavery, has been handed to us for inser- tion by a correspondent ...

Poetry

... prize, to That all are eager to obtain, Then surely sad it is to see alc Our country pine in slavery. be Hibernia long hath felt the thrall dis Of gloomy slavery's galling sway. ouC And long and loud has been the call en To wipe the shameful stain away; ...

REVIEW

... did more. V It repealed all the previous legiasative limitations of Inc Slavery, back to the celebrated Ordinance of' Joly 13 I'l 1787, Styled unalterable, which excluded slavery from~ the Pis territory north-west of the Ohio. Thle uise of the term PI' ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Lecture for 1874) on Slavery and the Slave Trade opens the number. Sir Samuel takes the ground that slavery has its origin in the de- basement of the enslaver, and that as peoples advance in civilisation so they repudiate slavery - a comforting doctrine ...

The measures by which the British government has for a number of years been attempting to suppress the slave trade

... rightly appreciate our anti-slavery policy. The anti-slavery and anti-slave-trade operations of this country have, it cannot be denied, entailed enormous sacrifices upon our West India colonies. The virtue displayed by our anti-slavery agitators has been one ...