The liberty minstrel

Brothers be brave for the pining slave, From his wife and children riven; From every vale their bitter wail Goes sounding up to Heaven. Then for the life of that poor wife, And...

She sings by her wheel at that low cottage door, Which the long evening shadow is stretching before; With a music as sweet as the music which seems Breathed softly and faint in...

Ye heralds of freedom, ye noble and brave, Who dare to insist on the rights of the slave; Go onward, go onward, your cause is of God, And he will soon sever the oppressor's stro...

Produced by Carlo Traverso, collective PM for music, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images gene...

In pride and pomp to roll, Shall tyrants from the soul God's image tear, And call the wreck their own,-- While from th' eternal throne, They shut the stifled groan, And bitter p...

Does the land, in native might, Pant for Liberty and Right? Long to cast from human kind Chains of body and of mind-- That's my country, that's the land I can love with heart an...

March on! march on! we love the Liberty flag, That's waving o'er our land; As fearless as the eagle soaring O'er the cloud-capped mountain crag, Slavery in terror flies before u...