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What's hallowed ground? | where, mourned and | missed,|

The lips re- | pose our | love has | kissed, |

But where's their | memory's | mansion? || Is't Yon church-yard's | bowers? |71

No! in our | selves their | souls ex- | ist, |

A part of ours. |17|

A kiss can consecrate the | ground!
Where mated | hearts are | mutual | bound: |
The spot where | loves | first | links were wound |
That ne'er are | riven, |

Is hallowed down to | earth's pro- | found, |

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And up to heaven! |

What hallows ground where | heroes | sleep? 71 'Tis not the sculptured | piles you | heap: ||

In dews that | heavens | far- | distant | weep,

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Their turf may | bloom; |

Or genii | twine be- | neath the | deep |

Their coral | tomb. ||

But strew his | ashes to the | wind,

Whose sword or voice has saved man- | kind

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And is he dead,

whose | glorious | mind |

Lifts thine on | high? |

To live in hearts we | leave be- | hind, |

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Is't death to fall for | freedom's | right? 1
He's dead alone that | lacks her | light! |

And murder | sullies in | heaven's | sight, |
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The sword he draws: 71

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What can alone en- | noble | fight? |

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A noble cause. I

Give that: |

and | welcome | war to | brace

Her drums! |

and | rend | heaven's | reeking | space! |

The charging | cheer, |

The colors planted | face to face,
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Though | death's | pale | horse | lead on the | chase,

Shall still be | dear. 1771771

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What's hallowed | ground? 'Tis | what gives | birth

To sacred thoughts in | souls of | worth!
Peace, inde- | pendence! || Truth,

Earth's compass | round; |

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go | forth |

And your high | priesthood | shall make | earth |

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All hallowed ground! ||

CAMPBELL.

WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH SLAVERY?

| DOES | any one | ask |at| this late | day, | when the

| giant | wrong, which our

fights for, threatens to strip us

butes of freedom and hu- | manity, |

What have we to do

country | legalizes and |

of the dearest | attri

does | any one | ask,

with the in- | justice that ex- |

ists, not here, | but in an- | other | part of the | land? | ❘ |

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prejudices, | more | fatal than | muskets or ar- | tilWe have | no | right to sur- | render to it the | sacred principle of | freedom of speech as we have done. We have | no | right to af- | ford it the | broad pro- | tection of our silence, as we do. We have no | right to allow it to | flourish in the | capital of the | nation, as we do. We have | no | right to | aid in ex- | tending, and per- petuating, and | fighting for it,

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| which we have no | right to inter- | fere. | | We must

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| turn over a | new | leaf, | and | learn, | hard as the | les| to mind | every one his | own | business. | And what is our | business? Why, to do | | | justly. |17| It is what | God | specially re- | quires of 1 us, to cease from doing | evil; to main- | tain freedom of speech, || that | precious | thing, |◄ with- | out which our civil se- | curity | is but | stubble, which the out- | bursting | fires of | violent | passions | may, at | any moment, con- | sume; to guard the public | liberties in the person of the meanest of the |

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land; to de- | stroy in- | justice of | all kinds, | and | let the voice of hu- | manity, the swelling | key-note of the | world, |be| heard, | pleading for the | right. | ◄

| This is the | business, || this the | just | thing which we | have to do, | every | man and woman of us, | and of | which, | as | surely as we are | here this | day, | we must give an ac- count. I caution you, | 0 | | |

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men, as you would pos- | sess the | good which | God hath showed you and | do what | he re- quires, care how you | meddle any | longer, | or | countenance |

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with the in- | alienable | rights of

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That is inter- | ference with other with | which | they are | chargeable |

women as their property to be

It is an insult to our

common hu- | manity. | It | | 1

must come to an end, and it | will; let the

blood of the nation be

petuate it.

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poured out | ever so | freely to perFor | God hath | showed thee, | 0 | man, │

what is good,

and what does | he re- quire of us,

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but that we do | justly? | He has | written it in our | hearts, and his | providence is | bringing | out the divine | hand-writing | in | ever | clearer and | more | flaming | characters, un- | til it shall | flash con- | viction on the | darkest | mind.

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'Twill murmur | on a | thousand | years, |

And flow as | now it | flows.

And here, on this de- | lightful | day, |

I cannot

choose but | think |

How | oft, |

a | vigorous | man, I | lay

Be- | side this | fountain | brink.

My eyes are | dim with | childish | tears,

My heart is idly | stirred, |

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For the same sound is in my | ears, |

Which in those days I | heard. ||

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