A Time of Justice will Come

E are conscious of the odium that rests upon us.

WE

We feel that we are wronged; but we are not impatient for the righting of our wrongs. We bide our time. The men that shall come after us, will do us justice. The present generation of America cannot "judge righteous judgment," in the case of the uncompromising friends of freedom, religion, and law. They are so debauched and blinded by slavery, and by the perverse and low ideas of freedom, religion, and law, which it engenders, that they "call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness; put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." They have been living out the lie of slavery so long, and have been, thereby, deadening their consciences so long, as to be now well nigh incapable of perceiving the wide and everlasting distinctions between truth and falsehood.

GERRIT SMITH.

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Hope and Confidence.

¡ WHAT a strange thing is the human heart! With its youth, and its joy and fear!

It doats upon creatures that day-dreams impart,— Full sorely it grieves when their beauties depart, And weeps bitter tears over their bier.

The veriest gleamings that dart into birth,
Reveal to its being of light:

The dimliest shadows that flit upon earth,
Allure it, with promise of pleasure and mirth
In a country, where never is night.

It leaves the sure things of its own real home,

To pursue the mere phantoms of thought!

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Well knowing, that certain, there soon must come, An end to the visions, that so gladsome,

It bewilder'd, has eagerly sought.