The Wrongs of Africa: A Tribute to the Anti-slavery Cause

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Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society, 1838 - 31 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 12 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
الصفحة 26 - Not for stern ambition's prize, Do our hopes and wishes rise ; Lo, our leader from the skies, Bids us do or die. Ours is not the tented field— We no earthly weapons wield — Light and love, our sword and shield, Truth our panoply.
الصفحة 23 - He died beneath the lash : his mortal frame Could bear no more ; and Death in mercy came. Patient and calm, his spirit passed away, And now his body sleeps beneath the clay. His toils are over, and his weary breast Has found — what man in life denied him — rest. Poor slumbering dust ! is there that passes by And yields thy death the tribute of a sigh ? The tyrant tramples on thy lowly grave — 'Tis but the ashes of a murdered slave! And...
الصفحة 20 - West a voice of woe, The wild Atlantic in its flow, Bears on its breast the murmur low, " My Child is gone. " Like savage Tigers o'er their prey, They tore him from my heart away, And now I cry by night — by day — My Child is gone.
الصفحة 12 - Trilling ear attend ; Thou, who never did'st deny Pity to the mourner's cry, Hear the Prayer -we send to Thee, Set the injured Negro free. Man — a broken reed at best, Wounds the hands that on him rest : Human Power, — 'tis empty fame ; He who trusts it — trusts a name : Thou, who did'st for sin atone, All unaided and alone, Lo! in faith we turn to thee, Set the injured Negro free.
الصفحة 21 - And when I seek my cot at night, There's not a thing that meets my sight, But tells me that my soul's delight, My child, is gone ! I sink to sleep, and then I seem To hear again his parting scream I start and wake — 'tis but a dream — My child t'* gone ! Gone — till my toils and griefs are o'er, And t shall reach that happy shore, Where negro mothers cry no more— My child is gone...
الصفحة 23 - But Jesus looked upon the scene of Death, And marked the Negro's last expiring breath; Sustained that breath to speak a parting word, An humble witness for his Gracious Lord: And bade him, like the dying Prince of Heaven, Pray that his Murderers might be forgiven ! The gloomy Vale he passed, — the pang was o'er, — He felt the lash of Slavery no more, — He dropped his quivering flesh upon the sod, And flew to meet his Saviour and his God. They dug his burial-place, — and cast within THE BLEEDING...
الصفحة 24 - Their hearts, and think that white men only feel ! But Jesus looked upon the scene of death, And marked the negro's last expiring breath ; Sustained that breath to speak a parting word, An humble witness for his gracious Lord, And bade him, like the dying Prince of Heaven, . Pray that his murderers might be forgiven ! The gloomy vale he passed — the pang was o'er—- He felt the lash of slavery no more : He dropped his quivering flesh upon the sod, And flew to meet his Saviour and his God.
الصفحة 14 - Where is the Pow'r, that led thy seed From Egypt's blighted plains, Their limbs from cruel bondage freed, Their souls from direr chains 1 3 Where is the Mighty Arm, that clave The waters of the sea...
الصفحة 31 - Let us not then fear the voice of ridicule or censure, but follow the dictates of those sympathies which the God of nature hath implanted in our bosoms ; defend the defenceless, succour the oppressed ; plead the cause of the innocent ; manifest our allegiance to Him, the distinctive badge of whose disciples is love — love to the whole human family ; and prove that we joyfully exchange the admiration of the world for the blessing of the perishing.

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