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crate by the blood of heroes, and from
a. pation whose origin was in purpose
grand as the best conception of hu-
man Drain, whose foundations we're
all In Gods Equity, and whose per-
petuity demanded the yielding up of
spirits of martyrs and the souls of Just
men made perfect, and their surren
der Of man g all.
0. it was sublime! Too grand for
the weak expression of human speech
for we have no words which 90 to the
depths of u patriotism that counts it
honor's best privilege to lay life and
fortune on the Altar of Freedom.
From what have me- struggled to
be free? Why have all their efforts
resulted but in partial ameiora ton
OF serf, human chattel, the broken
bond of slave, through whose veins
perhaps coursed the proud blood of
the master, brother or sister by an
other mother to the prince or princess
of house, admitted and ranked as
noble ? VINO drew these parallels of
pain and ignominy running equal
course with and between lines of
honor and delight BY what edict
OF existence were rank and station
begotten, to emphasize misfortune
and to fasten indignity as by curse?
Whence came this distinction Il am
thy Lord, thou art in my bond ?
From what authority came this power
10y which was meted the lash, the
dungeon. unremitting toll, the chain,
the whipping post and iron manacle
How GENES it that on Gods acres
some may Sow and CLEAN, and revel
in the.joy and abundance of harvest,
while millions willing to labor. may
not plant one grain in any field, may
not satisfy hunger by 80 much as a,
handful Of corn. compelled to trudge
on. not naked for fear of the law
through rain and storm. deafened by
the thunder less awful than the
voice of fellow man, dazzled by the
lightning less sharp, less harmful
than the fire flashing from brains un-
inumined by compassion
OF Che Ethiopian it was said: @Be-
cause of his skin he tath been mark
ed for bondage and for thousands Of
years the great authority Of religion
has proclaimed the justice Of his cap
ture, the honor of traffic in his
body, that he might be bred rs other
beasts are, torn from his kin, or per
haps impounded in the corral of the
diamond diggings Of Africa, not less
slave than when swapped for car
goes OF rum, which kept pirates and
ivandals up to more than the pitch of
devils in the performance of deeds,
which must have made all hell en-
vious because of their atrocity.
1t is not the hard task God has set,
not the environment placed By dis.
eliminating Creator who laid the
strenuous lines OF caste and of class,
but the wicked might OF human law,
that has made toll unremunerative,
filed earth with pauper, criminal and
degenerate, and has turned loose for
plunder men enough TO guard our
coasts and defend our shores, and
who under just and equitable admin.
istration might be the pride and sup
port of this n;rtion and not it's shame.
The plan Of self government is a
desperate failure when its conspicu-
ous products are millionaires and
millions Of tranps. Our boasted
Constitution. glittering with general
tiles is the bill to farcial play, when
famine rules the alley, hunger lines
the highway, want assails tho passer-
by, desperation covers in the shad-
ows reedy to do violence, while
greed gorges in palaces upon the
earnings of more than millions Of
pairs OF hands!
Our national escutcheon sullied by
treason, has been marked more than