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Yet those oppressors steeped in guilt— I still would have them live; For I have learned of Jesus To suffer and forgive. I want no carnal weapons, No enginery of death, For I love not to hear the sound Of war's tempestuous breath. I do not ask vou to engage In death and bloody strife, I do not dare insult my God By asking for their life. But while your kindest sympathies To foreign lands do roam, I would ask you to remember Your own oppressed at home. I plead with you to sympathize With sighs and groans and scars, And note how base the tyranny Beneath the stripes and stars.

How she received her name: "And the Lord gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up an' down the land showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards I told the Lord I wanted another name, 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people."

Although deprived of the advantages of even a common school education, that once slave girl became the most remarkable woman this century has produced; a wonder to the philosopher, the philanthropist and sage. A bold defender of the rights of men, a powerful