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SLAVERY

... SLAVERY. -I weuldl not havoc, slave to till my greoud,cii To carry roe, to Ian me While 1511T . ory, And treudble when I wake, for all ?? wealth and That sinews b)ought end sold have everearnmd. No: dear as freedoma is, and in nay heart's Ilre Just e ...

LINES,

... ye, from your ancient creed, 2. Freemen, wont of old to bleed To be mute at pity's voice,- In the cause of liberty? To let slavery's crew rejoice- 4.) that were a fatal choice- e gu When the prize is liberty! brew of steland !r e quail, 3.~ ~ ~ B owo te ...

OUT WITH THE GIRLS

... ABOLITIONIST'S TROUBLE. There is a story of an anti-slavery missionary who had the hardihood, just before the Civil Wd ar broke out, to go down South on a lecturing tour. lie was cavtured by a pro-slavery mob ot whites ; and, after a preliminary debate as ...

TRUTH LIVES ON

... live andl .lesus die, Thue Truth lives on. liurtijg- faggots blazing Idghl, tibbets towriug to the sky, ?? rack aund pain, Slavery Clankinig loud its chaill, kalsehood triumphls btill in vaill; 'lhe Truth lives on. Undemneath thit load of wroug, Trutn eternai ...

POETRY

... its chords with notes of living fire, Had ne'er been swept, But silent hung its holy strings confined by chains which moral slavery ever binds. The colors of this wreath have stood Some thousand years, DJeep dyed it is in: oft-spilled blood And scalding ...

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTICES

... influence of Christianity, not in directing a general revolt against slavery, but in introducing a. new brutherhod among men which first mitigated the wretchedness of the slave and then made slavery impossible. In another paper on A Great American Anniversa ...

VICTORIA

... golden grai. It may not be ; uor her alone Swords leap and true hearts beat, Who rules, with freedomn on her throne, And slavery at her feet. 8She must unwind the web of peace, So beautifully wove 11lr womanhood's delight must ceoase- All, save hor people's ...

ASPIRATION

... freedonm will be understood, and when men vill sei that to obey another man, to labour for him, vield reverence to hinm, is nor slavery. It is ofttin the best kind of liberty-liberty from care. Theman who says to one, go. and lie goeth, and to another cone, ...

THE VOICE OF THE TIME

... Over laml, over sea, it hath come, TIse serf that wss yesterday botsght, To-day his (defiartce hath buI l1, No Snore in his slavery dlutb; Arsd ?? will break from the fetters that bind, I ?? ifit a bold ant fuor the rights of tmaah-id. Hark to [lie voile ...

THE FREED CAPTIVE

... that thesbro - Might u isstrength. a lnd hiad found r Iseneath ?? s smile, That peace which cheeed his dreary lot .d ~Of slavery and toll.~ dnd now amidst the anguish'd throes Which rackd hs ?? frame, glow of heavenly radiance on nt :tia dyingcountenanwe ...

THE CRY OF THE REVOLTING DAUGHTERS

... apron Ltrings?' to chl They cry aloud on King and crossina-sweeper, N ug Ye shall siso bear our ban ! in tly For, though slavery is hard, what galls us deeper tb hsj Is the lioerty of man. |A H) C. M, in the Pall Hall C fu ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... eoloncl Shaw was all that she has painted him, and that Ir cle vas a hero in the true sense, fighting for the abolition ts of slavery, which he regarded as a national sin. There cm are also other men of the same stamp in the Northern TV :lriv, but their presence ...