carrion-crime!

The Constitution grants neither right nor authority to interfere with the domestic institutions of any State; but Congress, representing the people and the States, has absolute control in the Territories. "More Slavery!" has been the continual cry of the South. Rebellion provoked the war-power of the President; and it is now probable that the institution which claimed a continent, will be numbered with the abominations that were! Let all the people say Amen.

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F Stands for Fugitives hasting from wrath,

And furies are hot on their dangerous path.

Away from the cabins of slavery pomp,

A refuge they seek in the hideous swamp;

Or, haply eluding the hunters of blood,

They struggle through thicket and perilous flood,

Till, reaching the lines of the Union Host,

The echo has died of the scandalous boast,

"Hurra for the banner that Liberty waves,

"With stars for the Masters and stripes for the Slaves!"

A history of this Liberty War would be very incomplete without sample-sketches of the patient, shrewd efforts of individuals and families of Slaves in getting away from the house of bondage into the lines of the Union Army. Almost starved, hunted by dogs and men, shot at, some of the party killed,—none but the good Lord knoweth the miseries endured by thousands in escaping from the comfortable, patriarchal, Gospel institution of the South!

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G Stands for Gospel. How beautiful are

The feet of the bearer of news from afar,

When coming to touch a humanity-chord -

And preach the acceptable year of the Lord!

Set free the scourged bondman, now branded and sore,

And write him a freeman, a man evermore,

Around whom a family closely may draw.

—Or if the Good Gospel be Slavery Law,

The clergy, for aught that to reason appears,

Might honestly prosper as Slave Auctioneers!

Why not? Disrespect is intended for such clergymen only as put Southern Slavery on Bible grounds. They might sell books, shoes, horses, by public outcry, and feel no shame of sin. If the Gospel endorses colored people as property, why should the clergy scruple to be Slave-Auctioneers? Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, might do a thriving business in that line, down South. Doubtless he is popular in that region, and would be largely patronized!

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H Stands for Harvest. We reap as we sow:

If thistles you plant, do you know what will grow?

Enlarge your plantations, and multiply slaves,

Till luxury gets