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Poetry: Welcome To John Quincy Adams

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Day
20
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Written for and sung at an address of John Quincy Adams to his constituents in Dedham, Massachusetts, on October 24, 1843. First published in the November 3, 1843 issue of William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery newspaper The Liberator.

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We come, no wárrior to meet, No chief with sword and shield, Returning homewith blood-stained feef, Fromsomc great batlle field; We come ths f ríend of man to greet, The hero who hath stond Undatinted - scorning to retreat - . When slavery threatened blood. We come to rpnder homago duo From freemcn to that one Who, foremost of the brave and true, Is Frcedom's champion. We come to hear that fearlesB voice, Long raised in Freedorn's cause, And from the statesman of our choice, Learn how to guard her laws. Thon more than hcro - Patriot, Sage! Shirld of the rights oj' man - Thyname flhall shine on History'a page, A lightto guide nnd wam; And when our sons. in fiUure days, Shall meet round Frecdom's shrine, Thy name shall minóle wiih their lavs Of love fot Auld iséting Syne." Drdham, Oclobrr 24, 1343.