To work with an Ass in the Union Yoke. To walk in the furrow and take the short end, Seemed ever the fate of the Ox to attend, While the Ass, having learned a political trick, Knew wickedly well how to bray and to kick. But patience wears out, though it ever adorns,-- The ears are now feeling the push of the horns, And wonders of justice are coming to pass:-- The North is the Ox and the South is the Ass. From 1789 to the outbreak of the Rebellion, Slaveholders occupied the Presidential chair for 48 years, and Northern sympathizers with Slavery for 12 years more--leaving only 12 years for Freedom-proclivities in the President. Although greatly outnumbered by the North, the South almost uniformly ruled in Congress. Not getting _all_ it demanded, the Tariff was made a pretext for secession. "The next pretext," said Jackson, "will be the Negro or Slavery question." [Illustration: 0022] |P Stands for _Principle_. Policy fain Would measure all deeds by the loss or the gain, While Principle never finds aught to consult. But conscience and duty, whate'er the result. In slaveholding policy, all that you win May fitly be reckoned the wages of sin, And what has been earned by the master or thrall, Is never withheld by the Ruler of All. Perhaps you will learn, when the payment is due, That a deed which is wrong is impolitic too. In 1786 Washington expressed his determination never to "possess another slave by purchase." Avowed in 1794 that he held slaves "very reluctantly to his own feelings." By will emancipated all he held, making provision for the support of the aged and infirm, and for the education of the young--and most solemnly enjoined his executors to see that his instructions were religiously fulfilled. According to the Slavery propagandists of this age of grace, all this was fundamentally wrong! [Illustration: 0023] |Q Stands for _Query_. Inquisitive thought May lead to conclusions not anxiously sought. Suppose of Quadroon we a moment should think, With _one_ side of ancestry sable as ink, The other side claiming complexion as fair As fatherly planters most commonly wear: The child of her Master, a Slave-daughter still, Must bow to the law of his sensual will; And when he shall sell her, (perhaps very soon) The Query may follow the chattel Quadroon.