The glorious day beyond the grave,
Which knows no master-owns no slave.

And there, too, are the rack-the wheel-
The torturing screw-the piercing steel,—
Grim powers of death all crusted o'er
With other victims' clotted gore.
Frowning they stand, and in their cold,
Silent solemnity, unfold

The strong one's triumph o'er the weak-
The awful groan-the anguished shriek-
The unconscious mutt'rings of despair-
The strained eyeball's idiot stare—

The hopeless clench-the quiv'ring frame-
The martyr's death-the despot's shame.
The rack-the tyrant-victim,--all
Are gathered in that Judgment Hall.
Draw we the veil, for 'tis a sight
But friends can gaze on with delight.

The sunbeams on the rack that play,
For sudden terror flit

away

From this dread work of war and death,

As angels do with quickened breath,
From some dark deed of deepest sin,

Ere they have drunk its spirit in.

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No mighty host with banners flying,
Seems fiercer to a conquered foe,
Than did those gallant heroes dying,

To those who gloated o'er their woe ;-
Grim tigers, who have seized their prey,
Then turn and shrink abashed away;
And, coming back and crouching nigh,
Quail 'neath the flashing of the eye,

Which tells that though the life has started,

The will to strike has not departed.

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Sad was your fate, heroic band!

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Yet mourn we not, for yours' the stand
Which will secure to you a fame,

That never dieth, and a name

That will, in coming ages, be

A signal word for Liberty.
Upon the slave's o'erclouded sky,

Your gallant actions traced the bow,
Which whispered of deliv'rance nigh—
The meed of one decisive blow.
Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure;
Thy name with that of L'Ouverture,

And all the noble souls that stood

With both of you, in times of blood,
Will live to be the tyrant's fear-

Will live, the sinking soul to cheer!

George Breshon

SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 31st, 1853.

The Law of Liberty

FREEDOM, under the proper restraint of Law and

Duty, is a political good, for that which is morally wrong can never be politically right.

Fine moral sense will pour indignation on oppression, as well as applause on worth. It will give sympathy to the afflicted, and treasures to relieve the needy. Such a spirit will exalt a nation, and command the respect of other nations. But general freedom can only flourish beneath the undisturbed dominion of equitable laws.

Governments should aim at the welfare of the peo- . ple, and that government which secures the person, the property, the liberty, the lives of dutiful subjects, and thus makes the common good the rule and measure of its government, will receive a blessing from God.

Let America act on her own avowed principles, that every man is born free, and she will be exalted, when tyrannical, persecuting, slaveholding nations will come to nought.

Mamarsh DD