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the fugitive-slave-bill.
Your freeman's reverence for the free,
Your freeman's faith in liberty—
Your freeman's unslaved soul and hand!
Your freeman's faith in liberty—
Your freeman's unslaved soul and hand!
And if man bid you darken.life,
Quench hope and seize what God's love gave,
Leave the poor serpent to his hiss,
Do aught, be aught, but be not this—
Far rather be a southern slave!
Quench hope and seize what God's love gave,
Leave the poor serpent to his hiss,
Do aught, be aught, but be not this—
Far rather be a southern slave!
