THE NEW YORK 153967 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899 GLASGOW : Printed by AIRD & RUSSELL, Buchanan Court, 75, Argyll Street. ΤΟ GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., THE UNWEARIED ADVOCATE OF THE SLAVE; THE FEARLESS AND UNCOMPROMISING DENOUNCER OF SLAVERY, WHEREVER IT EXISTS; THIS LITTLE TRIBUTE IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE first two Poems in the following Collection, were suggested to the mind of the writer, by circumstances connected with the visit of Mr GEORGE THOMPSON to the city of Cork, at the close of the last summer. The remainder were composed expressly for the Sale held by the Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society, on the 1st of January last, and following days, when they appeared on several ornamental articles, forwarded by the Cork Auxiliary, to their Scottish Sisters; and at the request of the latter, they are now presented to the public, in a more distinct and better arranged form, corrected and considerably enlarged. In acceding to the request of the Glasgow Committee, the writer is influenced chiefly by the desire to add her feeble effort to the impetus now giving, from a variety of quarters, to the public mind, on the great subject of Negro Emancipation, which, as it is the cause of humanity, is likewise the cause of God: and if she should be favoured as the instrument of removing a single prejudice,—of awakening in a single bosom, the feeling of sympathy for the oppressed and degraded African,-to HIM be the praise, from whom cometh the gift, and the will to consecrate it to His service. CORK, 6th March, 1838. M. B. T. |