The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . B Stands for bloodhound. On merciless fangsThe Slaveholder feels that his property hangs,And the dog and the master are hot on the track,To torture or bring the black fugitive weak has but iled from the hand of the strong,Asserting the right and resisting the wrong,While he who exults in a skin that is white,A Bloodhound employs in asserting his might.—O chivalry-layman and dogmatist-priest,Say, which is the monster—the man, or the beast? How long is it since Southern papers advertised the offers ofrival hunters of fugitive Negroes, who cl
The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . B Stands for bloodhound. On merciless fangsThe Slaveholder feels that his property hangs,And the dog and the master are hot on the track,To torture or bring the black fugitive weak has but iled from the hand of the strong,Asserting the right and resisting the wrong,While he who exults in a skin that is white,A Bloodhound employs in asserting his might.—O chivalry-layman and dogmatist-priest,Say, which is the monster—the man, or the beast? How long is it since Southern papers advertised the offers ofrival hunters of fugitive Negroes, who claimed that they had thebest bloodhounds, &c. ? Truly an honorable and manly voca-tion. Runaway Slaves were advertised as having been torn bythe dogs, thus and so, on former occasions of flight, and largerewards were offered for the capture of such ingrates, dead oraUve ! Shall not specimens of these advertisements be some dayincluded in the literary curiosities of civilization ?. C Stands for Cotton. Its beautiful bolls,And bales of ricli value, the Master mud-sills lie prates, and would liauglitily bringThe world to acknowledge that Cotton is ^Democrat CoaV^ and ^Republican CornJ^The locks of the monarch have latterly shorn;And Slaveocrats, living by clamorous fraud,By Freemen shall yet into learning be awed,That the sceptre is not in position nor gift,But only in honest, industrial thrift. What is the difficulty, and what the remedy? Not in theelection of EepubHcan Presidents. No. Not in the non-execu-tion of the Fugitive bill. No. But it Hes back of all these. Itis found in the Atheistic Red RepubHcan doctrine of the Declara-tion of Independence. Until that is trampled under feet, therecan be no peace.—Dr. Smyth, a Rebel leader in South and poor white trash seem not to his liking; butwhat if they should trample him under feet ?
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