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Show • THE TOUCHSTONE. .A MAN thoro came, whence none could tell, Bearing a Touchstone in his hand, And tested all things in tho land By its unerring spell. A thousand transformations rose, From fair to foul, from foul to fair; The golden crown he did not share, Nor scorn tho beggar's clothes. Of heirloom jewels, prized so much, Were many changed to chips o.ud clods, And even statues of tho gods Crumbled beneath its touch. Then angrily the people cried, "The loss outweighs the profit far, Our goods suffice us as they are, We will not have them tried." But since they could not so aYail To check his unrelenting quest, Tbey seized him, saying, "Let him test llow real is our jail." But though they Sll\W him with their SWOrds, And in tho fire tho Touchstone burned,- Its doings could not bo o'orturned, Its undoings restored. Anti when, to stop all future harm, They strewed his nshes to the breeze, 'l'hey little guessed each grain of those, Conveyed the pel'fect charm. CoNTENTs • TITLE, DEDICATION, PREFACE, • TAnLE OF CoNTENTs, Doox FmsT- BuNKER HILL, • J3oox SECOND- MouNT SINAI, • Do ox TmnD- NON-INTERVENTIONISTS, Do ox FouR-N o~-RESISTANTS, Do ox FrvF.-VoiCE OF KANSAS, • BooK Srx- JonN BRowN's PmsoN LETTEns, noox SEVEN- DEATH OF SAMSON, • APPENDIX, • ~ ooh Jirst - ~lmher ~ill. A Plea for Capt. John Brown, by Henry D. Thoreau, The Lesson of the Hour, by Wendell Phillips, . Speech delivered at Tremont Temple, by R. "\.Y. Emerson,. Two Letters by Theodore Parker, Speech by Theodore Tilton, Two Letters by Victor Hugo, The Puritan Principle, by "\V en dell Phillips, Speech delivered at Salem, by Ralph "\Valda Emerson, ~ocrft .S.e.conb- - ~lonnt ~hmi. PAOB 1-2 3-4: 6-9 11-14 16-122 123-236 237-300 301-3.57 359-383 386-433 435-454 455-514 17-42 43-66 67-71 73-92 93-97 99-104 106-118 119-122 The Beginning of the End of American Slavery, by Rev. Gilbert Haven, • 125-14:0 |