OF HARPER'S FERRY. "By the rude Bridge that arched the flood, Here once the embattled farmers flood, And fired the fhot heard round the World." 326.4 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, BY JAMES REDPATH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. DEDICATION. TO GENERAL FABRE GEFFRARD, President of the Republic of Hayti: May it Please your Excellency: I dedicate this collection of ethical and political papers to you, as my first demurrer to the Haytien indictment against American character. You have done justly, I think, in refusing, in your speeches, to recognize our Union as a free Republic. For, in fifteen of our Southern States, men and women of your race, many of them with the blood of their tyrants in their veins, are held and reputed, by law and custom, and universal practice, as chattels personal or real estate; and, as such, are sold and exchanged, mortgaged and bequeathed! Professing to be Christian Commonwealths, these States unblushingly traffic in humanity! Professing to be Republican Communities, they deprive an entire race of every social, personal, and political right! Professing to be civilized Societies, they have inhumanly forced free citizens of color to leave their States, or be sold into eternal and irremediable Slavery! And, in the Northern States, where Slavery has ceased to exist, a spirit of intolerance, alike unchristian and unrepublican, politically disfranchises and socially excommu nicates your race. 442607 593569 (3) |