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Title: Amusing Trial in which a Yankee Lawyer Renders a Just Verdict
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: January 25, 2006 [EBook #17604]
Language: English
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Amusing Trial, in Which a Yankee Lawyer Rendered a Just Verdict.
Published at the Office of the Youth's Cabinet, 126 Fulton Street.
NEW YORK.
1841.
[Illustration: _A Slave sold at Auction._]
A time there was, when no one thought
It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought,
And of his strength have the command,
As much as of his house and land.
A Yankee Lawyer long had kept
A negro-man with whom he slept.
[Illustration]
And ate, and Sabbath day,
He half the time from church would stay;
When Cuff his master's garments wore.--
'Twas strange you say, but he was poor;
And though he cared not for Cuff's soul,
Yet such the times, that on the whole,
[Illustration: CAGE.]
"_Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, thou art a bitter
draught._"--STERNE.
His slave must to the meeting go,
If 'twas for nothing but a show.
They lived on thus for several years--
One would not think, that many tears
Would fall from off that shining face,
So sleek and smooth, or he would trace
[Illustration: NOTE.--_In some parts of the country, slaves are
scantily fed, while their masters live in luxury_.]
The chain which bound, or wish to break,
But choose to stay for his own sake,
Where he so well was clothed and fed,
And shared the lawyer's food and bed,
So well contented he might be,
He'd hardly know but he was free,
[Illustration: _Fetters formerly used by the slave traders, to confine
the ankles of their victims. The editor has seen some that were actually
used by Rhode
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