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S Stands for Slavery. Nations of old

Made bondmen by warfare, or bought them with gold;

And if to the Jews you incline to go back,

No special enslavement you find of the black.

But "might is not right," as in piracy scenes,

Else why do you censure the stern Algerines?

Or what if in Congo a thousand white men

Were Slaves, wholly hopeless of freedom again,—

Would bishops and priests of the Slavery line,

Quote Bible to prove it both right and divine?

"Slavery and the Slave Trade pervaded every nation of civilized antiquity....The founder of the Jewish nation was a Slaveholder.... Greeks enslaved each other....The Slave-markets of Rome were filled with men of every complexion and every clime....It is from about the year 990 that regular accounts of the Negro Slave-trade exist."—Bancroft's United States, i. 159. Any Bible argument for Slavery must therefore except the black, if any color is to be excepted!

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T Stands for Trader. To call him a brute

Would slander creation, beyond a dispute.

The Planter will mingle and socially dine

With dealers in cotton, and cattle, and swine,

But Slave-driving Traders (with common accord)

By Slave-holding gentry are shunned and abhorred!

Does conscience, with scruples of right, intervene

Concerning a business repugnantly mean?

Yet whoso shall doubt, may the difference tell:

What we rightfully buy, we may honestly sell.

The world moves, slowly it may be, but surely. Russia abolished Serfdom by an imperial decree, and our Republic is cutting a tangled knot by the edge of the sword. The loathing with which the Slave Trader has long been regarded, even in the South, was the index-finger of the hand of God. It is now a voice sounding in the darkness as a prophecy of coming day. Will not angels join the chorus of welcome? May the good Lord hasten the hour of deliverance.

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U Stands for Union. The Federal law

Into true common weal would the Colonies draw,

And States, that might else into anarchy run,

Were banded and leagued, indivisibly one—

And a Nation was born, with the rallying call,

"The Stars-and-Stripes Banner that waves over all!"

Secession may rage, and the kingdoms afar

May shout the brief wrath of a fiery star,

But E Pluribus Unum shall evermore be

The motto and law of the land of the free!

"I must declare here, as I have often done before, and which has been repeated by the greatest and wisest of statesmen and