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 tem-
