Above the rude gang that he governs is he,
And, like the Slave Trader, his service is prized
As treason is loved, and the traitor despised!
Some persons sneer at any distinction between hirelings of a month or year and hirelings for life—the latter being their definition of Southern Slavery! A taste of the wormwood and the gall might bring them to exclaim with Sterne: "Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still Slavery, still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account." Suppose the chalice were commended to the lips of Slaveholders?
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E Stands for Eagle, In Liberty springs
The strength of his beak and the pride of his wings.