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Title: The gospel of slavery : a primer of freedom
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Thomas, Abel C. (Abel Charles), 1807-1880
Subjects: Slavery Slavery
Publisher: New York : T.W. Strong
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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F Stands for Fugitives hasting from wrath,And furies are hot on their dangerous path.Away from the cabins of slavery pomp,A refuge they seek in the hideous swamp ;Or, haply eluding the hunters of blood.They struggle through thicket and perilous flood,Till, reaching the lines of the Union Host,The echo has died of the scandalous boast, Hurra for the banner that Liberty waves, With stars for the Masters and stripes for the Slaves! A history of this Liberty War would be very incomplete with-out sample-sketches of the patient, shrewd efforts.of individualsand families of Slaves in getting away from the house ofbondage into the lines of the Union Army. Almost starved,hunted by dogs and men, shot at, some of the party killed,—none but the good Lord knoweth the miseries endured bythousands in escaping from the comfortable, patriarchal, Gospelinstitution of the South ! s TO BE bOLD CHURC HAfirW//^
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G Stands for Qospel, How beautiful areThe feet of the bearer of news from afar,When coming to touch a humanity-chordAnd preach the acceptable year of the Lord!Set free the scourged bondman, now branded and sore,And write him a freeman, a man evermore.Around whom a family closely may draw.—Or if the Good Gospel be Slavery Law,Tlie clergy, for aught that to reason appears,Might honestly prosper as Slave Auctioneers! Why not ? Disrespect is intended for such clergymen only asput Southern Slavery on Bible grounds. They might sellbooks, shoes, horses, by public outcry, and feel no shame ofsin. If the Gospel endorses colored peojole as property, whyshould the clergy scruple to be Slave-Auctioneers ? BishopHopkins, of Vermont, might do a thriving business in that line,down South. Doubtless he is popular in that region, andwould be largely patronized!

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