Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-04-11
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Written on reading he spirited and manly remarks
Of Gou Ritncr of Pennsylvania in his late mes
sage OF The subject Of slavery.
thank God for the token! one lip is still free.
|ne spirit Notwithstanding one knee
like the oak of the mountain, deep-rooted and i'rm,
rect when the multitude bends 10 tho storm
khen traitors to Freedom, and Honor, and God,
! re bowed at an idol polluted With blood;
khen the recreant North has forgotten her trust,
nd the lin of her honor is low in the DUST ken
Thank God, that one arm from the shackle has bro.
fhs nix God, that one man freeman hath spoken
Fer thy crags Allegheny, blast has been blown
Rown thy tide, Susguehanna, the murmer has gone!
% the land OF the South of the charter x chain
'fLiberty Sweetened with Slavery pain;
Where the cant of Democracy dwells on the lips
II the forgers of letters, and wieldets ofwhips--
Where 'chivalriL' honor means really no more
| Than scourging Of women and robbing the poor
Fhere the Moloch Of Slavery stitch on high,
nd the words which he utters are--worship or diei
i ight onward, oh speed -wherever the blood
fine wronged and the gutcss is crying to God
Wherever a slave in his letters is Pinlng--
Wherever the lash Of the driver is twinng-
Wherever from Kindred torn rudely apart,
ONES the sorrowfsl wall oGthe broken Of heart
Wherever the shackles Of tyrrany bind
\ silence and darkness the God-gven mind
here, God speed il onward Its truth will he felt,
he bonds shall be loosened-,he iron shall melt
nd OH will the land, where the free soul Of PENN
ill fingers and breathes over mountain and glen
Fill the land where a BENEFITS spirit went forth
the peeled, and the melted, & outcast OF earth
there the words of the Charter ofLiberiy first
rom the soul of the sage and the patriot burst
here FIRST for the wrongd & the weak Of tAeii kind
he christian and statesman their efforts combin'd :
Viii tina; land of the free & the good wear a chain?
yin the call to the rescue Of Freedom be vain?
Ia Rrrurp i-.ber tEriends, nj Inv warming ,yill
rect for the truth, like their ancestral band-[siand
forgetting the feuds and the strife Of past time,
bunting GOODNESS injustice, and silence crime,
burning back from the cavil Of creeds, to unite
nee again for the poor in defence Of the right
roasting calmly, but firmly, the full tide of wrong,
gerwhelmned, but not borne on Its surges along
nappailed by the danger, the shame and the pain,
nd counting each tia for truth as their gain
nd that bold hearted yeomanry, honest and true,
no, haters TO fraud, give to labor It's due;
hose fathers, of old sang in concert with thine,
the banks Of Swetara, the songs of the Rhine
he pure German pilgrims, who first dar'd to brave
he sCorn OF the proud in the of the slave y
i'll the sons Of such men yield the lords Of the south
be brow for the brand--for the paddock one mouth?
hey cater to tyrants They rivet the chain,
mich their fathers smote of, on the negro again
o, NEVER! one voice, like the sound in the cloud,
hen the roar fthe storm WAKES loud & more loud,
hcrever the foot Of the freeman hath pressed,
ON the Delaware's marge to the lake Of the west,
the south-eoing breezes shall deepen and grow,
II the land il sweeps over shall tremblc below
he voice Of people-uprsen-a awake
Fnnsylvanias wa,chword with Freedom at stake,
hrilling up from each valley, flung down fiom each
'Ritner and Liberty-God for the rigMr height
1T is remarkable fact that tho first testimony oil
eligous body against negro slavery was that of a
cety of German Friends in Pennsylvania.