Poetry: The Warfare Of Freedom And Slavery

"If liberty of Speech, and of the Press,cannot coex8t with Slnvery, whieh of them is best worrh preserving?" - E. G. Loring. Our fathersjof old upon L?xmg!on's plain, For the rich boon of freedom first opened thefight; In Lexington. now ís commenccd again, The contest for freedom, for truth and for right. Has it e'en cometo this.that in Liberty'e lnnd; (Ah Liberty! that's Ihe f ir title we claim, Álthough on our natioa is Slavery's dark brand, And the despots of Europe exult n our sbaine.) Has it eVn corne to tliis that the prees must bebound? Thot free speech nnd freo thonght are to freomea denied?Then faréwell forever to e'en libeity't. soumi; Farewell to that freedom we boa6t of witli pride. Kntuckian?! think ye that the "ems of the free" Will admit che suppression of Speech or of Though! ? No, nevcr! these rig-hts still most Bacred slial! be, Aud the batlle for frecdum ehall firmly be fought . May it ever be bloodless - for much ehould vre dread, The red flag of wnr in onr country unftul'd, W!ien brethren for Shivery should brethren's blood shed, For Slavrry - the cur60 and the shame of . the world! Oh! that its foul blot from our nation were cast! Tliat Columbia might rise in her strength truly free:And escape the diré caurse thal will clsc ful) . at last, To consign hcrto ruin- no longer to be. Shall t Ft il! be the boast of the mouarchs of earth, Tlint Columbia alune is the land of the Slavp? Klmll the nation, who first gare to freedom her birth, In a contest for Slavery go down io llie grave7 Forbid it, my eotíntrymení ít is in your power, Let otr land still enjoy the nch blessings of peace, Theee carr ne'er bv her portion-, until (he biest hoiir When Slavery'tf power in her borders shïl ceaee.Tor the war has íegtín, end it etill fíerce will ruge', Sestrucliorï to Slavery i's hcard on cach . hand : The champions of freedom the conlcst will wage, Till oppression and bondage shall cease n the land.