The Martyr of Alabama.
"Tim Thompson, a little negro boy, was asked to dance for the amusement of some white toughs. He refused, saying he was a church member. One of the men knocked him down with a club and then danced upon his prostrate form. He then shot the boy in the hip. The boy is dead; his murderer is still at large."—News Item.
He lifted up his pleading eyes,
And scanned each cruel face.
Where cold and brutal cowardice
Had left its evil trace.
And scanned each cruel face.
Where cold and brutal cowardice
Had left its evil trace.
It was when tender memories
Round Beth'lem's manger lay,
Round Beth'lem's manger lay,
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