The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . V Stands for Victory, Villainj long, The sum of all villainies, prospered in wrong;But wlien it uplifted the bloody red hand,The verdict was sealed of its doom in the land. •Poor whites in the South by aristocrats millions of bondmen are crying aloud;And Freedoms renown, and Humanitys need,Alike for a Libeety-Yictoey plead;And triumph and peace shall thro righteousness come,When Slavery dies and its pleaders are dumb. Even when Eort Sumter was environed by threatening Rebelbatteries, there was a spirit of compromise in all the land ; butt
The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom . V Stands for Victory, Villainj long, The sum of all villainies, prospered in wrong;But wlien it uplifted the bloody red hand,The verdict was sealed of its doom in the land. •Poor whites in the South by aristocrats millions of bondmen are crying aloud;And Freedoms renown, and Humanitys need,Alike for a Libeety-Yictoey plead;And triumph and peace shall thro righteousness come,When Slavery dies and its pleaders are dumb. Even when Eort Sumter was environed by threatening Rebelbatteries, there was a spirit of compromise in all the land ; butthe first gun aimed at the Flag of Liberty was the beginningof the end of Slavery. The Star Spangled Banner of our fa-thers, that had long floated in honor and triumph, was troddendown and trailed in the dust by miscreant-traitors ; and it rrmstyet be vindicated and exalted in righteousness, though it bethrough blood and W Stands for Woinan„ In Slavery-life,Full many are mothers, but no one is decencys sake, form of wedding there is, ^But the parties are claimed by the master as his;And the children are . sold, and the father is soldTo this or that trader, to have and to hold;And the woman is whipped, for the motherly moanAnd the cry of a heart that is left all master all monstrous! is conscience amissIn dooming the sham of a wedding like this! Certain Southern ladies claimed, not long since, that theycare as tenderly for slave mothers as Northern ladies care forpoor white mothers. Possibly that is true, was the reply,but Northern ladies do not afterwards sell the baby !—Besidesthis, it is the money-inter est of Southerners to look well to theincrease of their property, whereas a true humanity, as a princi-ple, underlies and quickens the charitable attention of Northernladies, above referred to.
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