This eBook was produced by David Widger  widgercecometnet                           ANTISLAVERY POEMS                       SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM                                   BY                        JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIERCONTENTSANTISLAVERY POEMSTO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISONTOUSSAINT LOUVERTURETHE SLAVESHIPSEXPOSTULATIONHYMN THOU WHOSE PRESENCE WENT BEFORETHE YANKEE GIRLTHE HUNTERS OF MENSTANZAS FOR THE TIMESCLERICAL OPPRESSORSA SUMMONSTO THE MEMORY OF THOMASTHE MORAL WARFARERITNERTHE PASTORAL LETTERHYMN O HOLY FATHER JUST AND TRUETHE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHERPENNSYLVANIA HALLTHE NEW YEARTHE RELICTHE WORLDS CONVENTIONMASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIATHE CHRISTIAN SLAVETHE SENTENCE OF JOHN L BROWNTEXAS     VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND     TO FANEUIL HALL     TO MASSACHUSETTS     NEW HAMPSHIRE     THE PINETREETO A SOUTHERN STATESMANAT WASHINGTONTHE BRANDED HANDTHE FREED ISLANDSA LETTERLINES FROM A LETTER TO A YOUNG CLERICAL FRIENDDANIEL NEALLSONG OF SLAVES IN THE DESERTTo DELAWAREYORKTOWNRANDOLPH OF ROANOKETHE LOST STATESMANTHE SLAVES OF MARTINIQUETHE CURSE OF THE CHARTERBREAKERSPAEANTHE CRISISLINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHERDERNEA SABBATH SCENEIN THE EVIL DAYMOLOCH IN STATE STREETOFFICIAL PIETYTHE RENDITIONARISEN AT LASTTHE HASCHISHFOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKETHE KANSAS EMIGRANTSLETTER FROM A MISSIONARY OF THE METHODIST     EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH IN KANSAS TO A     DISTINGUISHED POLITICIANBURIAL OF BARBERTO PENNSYLVANIALE MARAIS DU CYGNETHE PASS OF THE SIERRAA SONG FOR THE TIMEWHAT OF THE DAYA SONG INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBSTHE PANORAMAON A PRAYERBOOKTHE SUMMONSTO WILLIAM H SEWARDIN WAR TIME     TO SAMUEL E SEWALL AND HARRIET W SEWALL     THY WILL BE DONE     A WORD FOR THE HOUR     EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT     TO JOHN C FREMONT     THE WATCHERS     TO ENGLISHMEN     MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS     AT PORT ROYAL     ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL     THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862     OF ST HELENAS ISLAND S C     THE PROCLAMATION     ANNIVERSARY POEM     BARBARA FRIETCHIE     HAT THE BIRDS SAID     THE MANTLE OF ST JOHN DE MATRA     LADS DEO     HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION          AT NEWBURYPORTAFTER THE WAR     THE PEACE AUTUMN     TO THE THIRTYNINTH CONGRESS     THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG     HOWARD AT ATLANTA     THE EMANCIPATION GROUP     THE JUBILEE SINGERS     GARRISONSONGS OF LABOR AND REFORMTHE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIMEDEMOCRACYTHE GALLOWSSEEDTIME AND HARVESTTO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLANDTHE HUMAN SACRIFICESONGS OF LABOR     DEDICATION     THE SHOEMAKERS     THE FISHERMEN     THE LUMBERMEN     THE SHIPBUILDERS     THE DROVERS     THE HUSKERSTHE REFORMERTHE PEACE CONVENTION AT BRUSSELSTHE PRISONER FOR DEBTTHE CHRISTIAN TOURISTSTHE MEN OF OLDTO PIUS IXCALEF IN BOSTONOUR STATETHE PRISONERS OF NAPLESTHE PEACE OF EUROPEASTRAEATHE DISENTHRALLEDTHE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAYTHE DREAM OF PIO NONOTHE VOICESTHE NEW EXODUSTHE CONQUEST OF FINLANDTHE EVE OF ELECTIONFROM PERUGIAITALYFREEDOM IN BRAZILAFTER ELECTIONDISARMAMENTTHE PROBLEMOUR COUNTRYON THE BIG HORNNOTESANTISLAVERY POEMS    TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISONCHAMPION of those who groan beneathOppressions iron handIn view of penury hate and deathI see thee fearless standStill bearing up thy lofty browIn the steadfast strength of truthIn manhood sealing well the vowAnd promise of thy youthGo on for thou hast chosen wellOn in the strength of GodLong as one human heart shall swellBeneath the tyrants rodSpeak in a slumbering nations earAs thou hast ever spokenUntil the dead in sin shall hearThe fetters link be brokenI love thee with a brothers loveI feel my pulses thrillTo mark thy spirit soar aboveThe cloud of human illMy heart hath leaped to answer thineAnd echo back thy wordsAs leaps the warriors at the shineAnd flash of kindred swordsThey tell me thou art rash and vainA searcher after fameThat thou art striving but to gainA longenduring nameThat thou hast nerved the Africs handAnd steeled the Africs heartTo shake aloft his vengeful brandAnd rend his chain apartHave I not known thee well and readThy mighty purpose longAnd watched the trials which have madeThy human spirit strongAnd shall the slanderers demon breathAvail with one like meTo dim the sunshine of my faithAnd earnest trust in theeGo on the daggers point may glareAmid thy pathways gloomThe fate which sternly threatens thereIs glorious martyrdomThen onward with a martyrs zealAnd wait thy sure rewardWhen man to man no more shall kneelAnd God alone be Lord1832TOUSSAINT LOUVERTUREToussaint LOuverture the black chieftain of Hayti was a slave on theplantation de Libertas belonging to M Bayou When the rising of thenegroes took place in 1791 Toussaint refused to join them until he hadaided M Bayou and his family to escape to Baltimore The white man haddiscovered in Toussaint many noble qualities and had instructed him insome of the first branches of education and the preservation of hislife was owing to the negros gratitude for this kindness  In 1797Toussaint LOuverture was appointed by the French governmentGeneralinChief of the armies of St Domingo and as such signed theConvention with General Maitland for the evacuation of the island by theBritish