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Show 48 THE MONTHLY OFFERING. And his joy and gladness leap forth And dance along the vale, His bondage shall be broken And his spirit on the gale! Hark! o'er the plains ascendin_g, Like the sound bef~re the ram,Like the noise of many waters,• Like the wind upon the main, The shouts of deep rejoicings That tremble on the sky, The mu•ic of two million tongues In a dance of ecstacy! "Dark slavery now is over, "It shall trouble us no more, "Its cruel scourge and bondage "And its agony are o'er! , "And great is our redemptiOn, These million voices sing, "Praise to the high Deliverer-: , "To Freedom's Prince and Kmg. Long live th;s L:issful chorus O'er the light of happier years, Oh swiftly speed che moment When its tone~ shall greet our ears! Like the slave, in all his rapture, Will we, who toil for him, Shout for hi• great deliveran~e Till the morning stars are d1m. Doston, Sept. 14, 1840. J.P. B. We would su.,.gest to the contributors to "THE WEEKLY coNTRIIlUTION," ~ways to have the amount of their monthly contribution deposited in the BOX, so t~at the. collecto~s need not be under the necessity of calhng twice. This must be, to them, very discouraging. THE MONTHLY OFFERING. OCTOBER, 1840. For the 1\Jonlhly Offering. What do you Abolitionists Wnntl Methinks I hear one of our modern Conservatives, whois holding in his breath for fear of excitement, and lookinu· with cold indifferen~e on the struggle which is going o~ in this country between freedom and slavery,-methinks I. hear him whispering in my ear, " What do you abolitionists want, that you are so furiously agitating the community, thereby destroying the peace of society, dividing churches, unsettling pastors, and turning the world upside down T What would vou have ns do?" What do \'Ve wnnt 1 I will tell you. We want you to aid us in raising to the condition of men, millions of your equal brethren, who are now regarded as marketable commodities. We want you to aid in the erection of a platform of rights and privileges, on which the whole human family can stand free and unmolested. We want to leave the human mind in the free exercise of all those powers nnd faculties which God has given it, to increase its enjoyment and usefulness in this world, and prepare it for neverending felicity in that which is to come. The slave lies bleeding at your feet-crushed to the earth by this "freest nation under heaven." We ask you to work for his liberation. We want you to aid in abolishing that system of worse than Hindoo caste, which prevails so extensively in our midst, and compels one portion of our citizens to toil on through an unending series of degradation and wretch• edness, with scarcely a prospect of escape from that stern |