The Brotherhood of Liberty
To their brethren the citizens of the United States of African descent.
"The shoemaker, in 'The Relapse,' tells Lord Foppington that his lordship is mistaken in supposing that his shoe pinches."—Macaulay.
"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."—John Milton.
"All history shows that reforms in government must not be expected from those who sit serenely on the social mountain-tops, enjoying the benefits of the existing order of things. Even the divine author of our religion found his followers, not among the self-complacent Pharisees, but among the lowly-minded fishermen."—Tilden.
"Let wealth and commerce, law and learning, die. But give us back our old nobility."—Lord John Manners.
"Truth wears no mask, bows at no human shrine, seeks neither place nor applause; she only asks a hearing."—Religio-Philosophical Journal.
"Take fast hold of Instruction; let her not go; keep her; for she is thy life."—Proverbs
"But the instant the world (that dread jury) are impanelled, and called to look on and be umpires in the scene, so that nothing is done by con-
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