What benefits to the slave! Liberty, elevation, knowledge, all social and civil blessings.
What relief to the master!—from crime, from the consciousness of wrong-doing, from fear, from a bondage of dependence, unthriftiness, and numberless vexations.
What blessings to the country! Asperities all softened. North, South, East and West united in one brotherhood; the nation honored in the approbation of the world; Freedom a grand reality for all.
What advantage to the cause of Christ! Christians henceforth one; wounds healed; the way of usefulness unobstructed; the church hastening with united strength, and with the blessing of God, to the spiritual conquest of the world!
IS HE NOT MAN?
Is he not Man, though knowledge never shed
Her quickening beams on his neglected head?
Is he not Man, though sweet religion’s voice
Ne’er made the mourner in his God rejoice?
Is he not Man, by sin and suffering tried?