The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-01-02

tmore secure than the fanla OF any
other American poet. Indeed. the
fame OF all the great poets OF the
earth Is linked with some epoch o.,
era. the emu OF which has. in >one
way or the other. influenced the his
tory. Of mankind. and in no small
measure changed the course. of civtl,
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! Whlttler's "Eanastnlatinn'' began
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Orr ,fe9low.spuntrymeS In chains! g;
| Slaves In a land Of light and law !:
Slaves. crouohlng ON tho very plains,
Where rolled the storm of free
dom's war! * $50. .->~
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In this exciting verse he placed his
finger upon every decisive battle of
The Revolutionary, war. and drew his
lesson. Years after the nation learn
ed, but it didn't learn until the
sword had writ in blood what Whit
tier ,pencfled In love. .
The poet thought. and proclaimed
than the Lord was God OF battle: -;
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coy broken, sAeaEt erttl elonded mind
.",AHharSGpon ND human mereiea
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The South often complains that
the North NEEDLES entirely too much
with its affairs In its mprderoilis
attitude. towards the Negro. it desires
to- be ''let alones"~ At has. always
been SO. Whittier answered the COM
plant half century agoi .&.
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Rail on, then, brethren of the
g." South, 80 ~. :ti$t, -.
We shall not hear the truth the
less
No seal IS on the Yankee press, a.
From our Green Mountains to the
One voice shall thunder. We are
His Farewell" the story OF Vir-
ginfa slave mother whose daughters
were sold into Southern bondage,
touched the heart of the nation and
moved. the world TO searsu THE
Fannrama WAS read, the country, over
an d won the heart, Sif not the mouth,
Of fhaH4y. g border tsontherner;;'
,Ma9ssaclhaAsetts, spoke .threqeh this
lHsptred SON. stp. Virginia. Il end, viz
gtnia' stretching to 'heskr, awakened
the entire South the soutRsbrotess7
ed ana IT'S noisF attracted the wqrlda
eGeoFge LatimeYr. an. es So 81 Slave,
[R .sssx Ffstngne f Eaml BostQp sNlthont
WARRANT to,,hlst aEnar, 4,,aB. Gpey Of
Norfolk ',l-EVery q noble stmpuEset- OF
Whittier rese9ted' So dastaYa}Wa pro-
ceAttre' and ~ "Wrote ff1i5 s8fl's' pro-
test IN 'fifa- "'A' n8@=e. t"t g." -
ID ~- ';t...e29B1s ,i,".,t1 ~ a'sn1 ''"'
But for Us and for our children the
VOW WHICH we have" given
For freedom :and-,hlmaDitw:is regis,
&c tered in heavens" =,
No slave hunt in our borders,,-no
pirate on our strand =. -
No letters in the Bay state,--no
slave npoS our land, -
But We must cease, though the
subject consumes: every patriotic and
grateful impulse. T.. Daniel Webster,
the Idol of New England, for period
and the'most pitiable figure in Amer
lean politics, IN quest OF the iiomlna-
ton for the Presidency, had stepped
his SOUL in sin. Nothing had been
for him too low. He had cut the gold
en- cord, however, when he supported
the Fugitive Slave Law, and espous-
ed the famous compromise. The
North was Indignant and Whittier,
though a distant relative, came for
ward with the grown of, disgrace:
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