The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other PoemsMcCarter & Company, 1856 - 169 Seiten |
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Abolitionists Acura African band beauty bestows billows black race blessed blue boat boon brave bread breast breeze bright cacique calm Celt charm cheer CHICORA chief coursers cruelty Dahomey deep distant evil fear feast Fezzan fields fierce flashing flowers forest friends gentle gold grief grizzly bear ground hamlet hand heart Heaven hill hireling horses hunter impart Indian isles Jamaica joyous knows labor land light Lord Grey maize manumission manumitted master morning mortal mullet native Nature's Negro never night Note o'er ocean pauper peace pine poor race rise rites sachems sand savage scene secure shade shining shore skies slave slaveholder slavery smile snowy white soft solemn song sorrow sparkling spirits spread spring stranger stream strife tale toil trees tribes Uchees vale warriors watch wave wigwam wings wood Yemassee yields Yohèwah's
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Seite 149 - Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."—COLERIDGE.
Seite 51 - SECOND. See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil, And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife . And helpless offspring
Seite 159 - that, in Jamaica, on a single plantation, there had been seventy deaths from violence for six from natural causes. See what Lewis says of the same people: " I never saw people look more happy in my life, and I believe their condition to be more comfortable than that of the laborers of Great Britain.
Seite 157 - MG LEWIS, author of the Monk, writing of the Negroes in Jamaica, says, "After all, slavery, in their case, is but another name for servitude." Lewis is the most competent of witnesses; honest, intelligent, prejudiced against slavery, he gives the most conclusive testimony that Negro slavery and European servitude are very much the same.
Seite 27 - Labor with hunger wages ceaseless strife, And want and suffering only end with life; In crowded huts contagious ills prevail, Dull typhus lurks, and deadlier plagues assail, 9 Gaunt Famine prowls around his pauper prey, And daily sweeps his ghastly hosts away; Unburied corses taint the summer air, And crime and outrage revel with despair. 10
Seite 26 - There, unconcerned, the philanthropic eye Beholds each phase of human misery; Sees the worn child compelled in mines to slave Through narrow seams of coal, a living grave, Driven from the breezy hill, the sunny glade, By ruthless hearts, the drudge of labor made, Unknown the boyish sport, the hours of play, Stripped of the common boon, the light of day,
Seite 158 - In the Sanitary Report, a witness says of a particular parish, "I believe this parish most fearfully demoralized. It is said that twenty years ago there was not one young female cottager of virtuous character ; there was not one man who was not, or had not been, a drunkard, and theft and fighting were universal.
Seite viii - it would be quite as just and logical as the argument to abolish slavery because there are sufferings among slaves, and hard hearts among masters. The cruelty or suffering is no more a necessary part of the one system than of the other. Notwithstanding its abuses and miseries, the hireling system works beneficially with white
Seite 27 - 8 Childhood bestows no childish sports or toys, Age neither reverence nor repose enjoys, Labor with hunger wages ceaseless strife, And want and suffering only end with life; In crowded huts contagious ills prevail, Dull typhus lurks, and deadlier plagues assail,
Seite ix - the slave to the master. The slave is an apprentice for life, and owes his labor to his master; the master owes support, during life, to the slave. Slavery is the Negro system of labor. He is lazy and improvident. Slavery makes all work, and it insures homes, food, and clothing for all. It permits no idleness, and it provides for sickness,