Beware of the penalty, down in the South!
—Can that be of God which for Slavery greed
Forbids you to teach a poor Negro to read?
Whether the African race, now in bondage in the South, be or be not in a better condition than their kindred in Africa, need not here be discussed. Morality and religion inquire, simply, whether Southern laws encourage an advancement? Do they not rather hinder, by severe penalties, any efforts to educate the slave population? Public Schools are the pride and glory of the North: What is the boast and shame of the South?
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O Stands for Ox, that necessity broke
To work with an Ass in the Union Yoke.