Hear their reply :

"Oppression shall not always reign:
There comes a brighter day,

When Freedom, burst from every chain,
Shall have triumphant way.

Then Right shall over Might prevail,
And Truth, like hero, armed in mail,
The hosts of tyrant Wrong assail,
And hold eternal sway.

"What voice shall bid the progress.stay

Of Truth's victorious car?

What arm arrest the growing day,

Or quench the solar star?

What reckless soul, though stout and strong,
Shall dare bring back the ancient wrong, —
Oppression's guilty night prolong,
And Freedom's morning bar?

"The hour of triumph comes apace, –
The fated, promised hour,
When earth upon a ransomed race

Her bounteous gifts shall shower.

Ring, Liberty, thy glorious bell!
Bid high thy sacred banners swell!

Let trump on trump the triumph tell

Of Heaven's redeeming power!"*

* These are the words of Henry Ware, jr., the last minister, eminent for religion, who had died in Boston.

THE ASPECT OF FREEDOM IN AMERICA.

SPEECH

AT THE

MASS ANTI-SLAVERY CELEBRATION

OF INDEPENDENCE,

AT

ABINGTON, JULY 5, 1852.

SPEECH.

MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN,- This is one of the anniversaries which mark four great movements in the progressive development of mankind; whereof each makes an Epoch in the history of the human race.

The first is the Twenty-fifth of December, the date agreed upon as the anniversary of the Birth of Jesus of Nazareth, marking the Epoch of Christianity.

The next is the First of November, the day when, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed the ninety-five theses on the church door at Wittenberg, the noise of his hammer startling the indolence, the despotism, and the licentiousness of the Pope, and his concubines, and his court far off at Rome. That denotes the Epoch of Protestantism, the greatest movement of mankind after the teaching of Jesus.