<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345712" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jefferson's Daughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that the<br>daughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was<br>sold at New Orleans for $1,000.'-Morning Chronicle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Can the blood that, at Lexington, poured o'er the plain,<br>When the sons warred with tyrants their rights to uphold,<br>Can the tide of Niagara wipe out the stain?<br>No! Jefferson's child has been bartered for gold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you boast of your freedom? Peace, babblers-be still;<br>Prate not of the goddess who scarce deigns to hear;<br>Have ye power to unbind? Are ye wanting in will?<br>Must the groans of your bondman still torture the ear?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The daughter of Jefferson sold for a slave!<br>The child of a freeman for dollars and francs!<br>The roar of applause, when your orators rave,<br>Is lost in the sound of her chain, as it clanks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peace, then, ye blasphemers of Liberty's name!<br>Though red was the blood by your forefathers spilt,<br>Still redder your cheeks should be mantled with shame,<br>Till the spirit of freedom shall cancel the guilt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the brand of the slave is the tint of his skin,<br>Though his heart may beat loyal and true underneath;<br>While the soul of the tyrant is rotten within,<br>And his white the mere cloak to the blackness of death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are ye deaf to the plaints that each moment arise?<br>Is it thus ye forget the mild precepts of Penn,-<br>Unheeding the clamor that 'maddens the skies,'<br>As ye trample the rights of your dark fellow-men?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the incense that glows before Liberty's shrine,<br>Is unmixed with the blood of the galled and oppressed,<br>O, then, and then only, the boast may be thine,<br>That the stripes and stars wave o'er a land of the blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345712" data-title="Jefferson's Daughter de Anonymous Americas" data-description="'It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was sold at New Orleans for $1,000.'-Morning Chronicle. Can the blood that, at Lexington, poured o'er the pla..."></div> </div> </div>

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