The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . ^ the stench of a carrion-crime! The Constitution grants neither right nor authority to inter-fere Yvith the domestic institutions of any State; but Congress,representing the people and the States, has absolute control inthe Territories. More Slavery ! has been the continual cryof the South. Rebellion provoked the war-power of the Pres-ident ; and it is now probable that the institution which claimeda continent, avlU be numbered with the abominations that were !Let all the people say F Stands for Fugitives hasting from wrath,And furies are h
The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . ^ the stench of a carrion-crime! The Constitution grants neither right nor authority to inter-fere Yvith the domestic institutions of any State; but Congress,representing the people and the States, has absolute control inthe Territories. More Slavery ! has been the continual cryof the South. Rebellion provoked the war-power of the Pres-ident ; and it is now probable that the institution which claimeda continent, avlU be numbered with the abominations that were !Let all the people say F Stands for Fugitives hasting from wrath,And furies are hot on their dangerous from the cabins of slavery pomp,A refuge they seek in the hideous swamp ;Or, haply eluding the hunters of struggle through thicket and perilous flood,Till, reaching the lines of the Union Host,The echo has died of the scandalous boast, Hurra for the banner that Liberty waves, With stars for the Masters and stripes for the Slaves! A history of this Liberty War would be very incomplete with-out sample-sketches of the patient, shrewd individualsand families of Slaves in getting away from the house ofbondage into the lines of the Union Army. Almost starved,hunted by dogs and men, shot at, some of the party killed,—none but the good Lord knoweth the miseries endured bythousands in escaping from the comfortable, patriarchal, Gospelinstitution of the South ! s TO BE bOLD CHURC HAfirW//^
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