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A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier |
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The Kansas Emigrants |
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Title: The Kansas Emigrants Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] This poem and the three following were called out by the popular movement of Free State men to occupy the territory of Kansas, and by the use of the great democratic weapon--an over-powering majority--to settle the conflict on that ground between Freedom and Slavery. The opponents of the movement used another kind of weapon. WE cross the prairie as of old We go to rear a wall of men We're flowing from our native hills We go to plant her common schools, Upbearing, like the Ark of old, No pause, nor rest, save where the streams We'll tread the prairie as of old 1854. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |