...never a noble, No lineage counted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a State. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound : Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their freedom, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim : Who is the owner ? The slave...

...take them with or without compensation. They knew what Emerson said about the slave business : — 12 Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim ; Bat who is owner ? The slave is owner ; And ever was ; pay him. He maintained that if any men had...

...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound...Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Fay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy...

...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound...people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound 1 Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And...

...conveyed in a Latin hexameter as good as that of Horace, would scarcely have raised a smile. In the lines, Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. could Emerson have caused his main idea to strike home with equal force by any arrangement whereby...

...his rights, not for him who has been enjoying the rights of others. " Pay ransom to the owner And nil the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." If then landowners are wise, they will not ask for compensation, lest the cry be taken up in earnest...

...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, « So only are ye unbound...ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. 70 Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags,...

...labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. To-day unbind the captive, ra So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the...ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. 70 Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags,...

...rejected, most scornfully, by the insolent slave-oligarchy, Emerson wrote in his "Boston Hymn," this verse: "Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was: pay him." Emerson said, in the presence of Lincoln: "Labor is the cornerstone of our nationality, — the labor...

...mehr mit Gold, sondern mit Eisen und Blut gemacht werden sollte, da stimmte er eine andere Weise an: „Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the...owner? The slave is owner And ever was. Pay him." Er bewunderte John Brown und verherrlichte ihn als „einen neuen Heiligen, der durch sein Märtyrertum...