Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-30
For the Rattsman's Journal.
THE SLAVE MOTHERS sOLILOGUI

Twas in my rarubIes, at the close of day,
passed cabin where a negro lay,
heaTJ and faint upon the belten ground
No better seat. no better bed was found
Her body bore the marks of cruel lash,
And dogs had torn her flesh with many cash;
Iier tattered garments, crimsoned with her blood,
Querched not the flowing, sanguiniferOus flood.
Her husband. Of the law allows the name)
haggard ccrpse, lies stretched upon the plain;
Stiffened each limb, his brawney bosom barred,
And vultUTes feed on what the dogs have spared.
weeping child beside the mother lay
Anu thus that mother said, or seemed to say
Weep, baby, weep, this sorrow seems to be
The hapless lot, my child, OF you and me;
hourn, sad forsaken cne, and curse the chain
That binds thy neck to penury and pain
For now We know not. nor yet can we know,
What yet may be thy founts of future wo
And time -lore thy suffering can reveal,
Perhaps, more cruel than thy parents feel.
4Alas, poor woman. little knew she then
Her husband had by the dogs been slain)
To forupa the cruel lriite came,
And seized, and forced them to this land of sham
Condemned, beneath the scorehing sun to toll,
For others bread to force the stubborn soil;
For others pride their low estate to feel,
To toll anl suffer still for others veal;
For their caprice feel pangs the most acute;
Re boUght, and sold. and traded like a brute;
For others wealth the negro poor must be;
HiCEolf slave for others liberty.
9 !snd OF boasted liberty and power.
Where slaves are seen in almost every door;
Where rapinc RACES virtue stands alright
And goodness hides within the shades Of night
Where lore lies bleeding meath expressions rod,
Justice and mercy have returned to God.
Irstead or heaven, oppression here bears rulei
ct at our wrongs It's useless now to pule-
Come, hush my child be still why sho d we weep,
And murmur with the shepherd of the shep
True, he has bound us here with earthly chains
But freed our souls 10 rove ceiectial plains;
Chase nj away. thy unavailing tears,
Grc the cross the Saviour God appears.
BeA0ii he dies beneath our load of sin,
And by his righteousness we glory win;
Rrlcz sd from sin his we bp
VI = are the fEeenen whom the truth makes FREQ.
In him We re made to share the better part
iiow precious is the Saviour to each heart
pu- cruel masters value not his blood.
But curse the Saviour, and deny their God.
Alas! the hardening influence of power,
It turns to stone the heart il would dcyOur;
l: shuts out tender pity from the eye
and stops the ear TO groans of agony;
palsies the hand to charities, and aims;
Fer love it substitutes its ErEyers and Psalms.
But 10 the master Siavcryss most uTkind
For we in body suffer, lie in mind;
II makes Us Ike THE 6rfttsS to live and feed,
But then il makes the master JrHte tHdsel.
The tigers rage dcprives orr souls Of peace;
But from its nature all their woes incrca.e
Our bodies they enslave with cruel smart.
But they themselves are slaves in mind and heart.
Ersat ere the suferings they for procure;
Bat greater tormcnts they themselves endure.
They fret bodies with the bitter thong;
But their own souls the more with cruel wrong
We shonld with meckness learn this wrong to pear,
I'D let our masters still our pity share
We should like mercy to our foes extend
4 few more rolling years of grief and shame,
And Freedom viii jubilee proclaim;
The craven spirits of the earth shall flee;
The churl be liberal, and the slave be free;
Our wrongs shall end, and horrd wars shall cease,
And earth be filled with universal peace.
From swords and spears, in all that age divine,
The pioughsharc and tn pruning hook shall shine
The proving wolf shall cease to feed on blood
The lion with the OK shall seek his food;
The Leopard, then. more the kid shall slay;
The harmless asp shall with the infant play;
The cow AID bear together then shall feed
Their Young ones be upon the grassy mead.
The stubborn earth producing briar and thorn.
Shall TEEN with waving fields Of yellow corn;
The barren desert, long of rain denied,
v ith pools and fountains hall be well supplied
As the kind Shepherd gently leads the dams,
And in his bosom bears the tender lambs,
so shall Messiah in his gentler reign,
e5othe in his arms his little ones from pain.
he te2s shall hear. the dumb shall shout for JOY
Tho lame shall leap and all his powers employ;
Those strifes that agitate the world shall cease
Truclght shall shine, kn wlcd ge shall increase
Sorrows shall end as folly disappears,
And earth keep jubilee thousand years
0: P.ince of Salem, spread thy peaceful reign,
And sw ay thy scepter . er this wide domain;
o bid thy children lift their joyful eyes,
And see another Greece TO glory rise;
Gno' ner Zion raise her honored head
AND wake another nation from the dead.
o. Prince of Salem spread thy peaceful reign
Wide DER Colu:nbia's desolated plain;
Les no putrescent demagogue come near,
Gut give US MEN to rule us IN thy fear.
q, le: thy truth with power and glory hurled
Drive ignorance fer the last time round the world
Here, by thy Spirit, let whole hearted men
Shut up oppression in its putrii den.
Reveal thy truth and justice, we implore,
till sin affrighted leaves peaceful shore;
And TO thy people do thy grace disclose,
And make this desert blossom the rose;
To it let Lebanon's greatness be revealed,
Carmel and Sharon all their glory yield.
O. let thy Zion arise and shine,
Her glory and her brightness all Divine:
And all the praise for shall be thine
LOGAN