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" Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. "
Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd - Page 364
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 376 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 76

1863 - 640 pages
...another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. Pay rnnson to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ! Nevada ! coin thy golden crags...
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...far different attitude from what it was when Emerson sang: "Pay ransom to the owner , And fill his bag to the brim; . Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him !" It is a far different attitude from what it was when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11

1863 - 844 pages
...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy golden crags...
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The Reformed Presbyterian magazine. Jan. 1855-July 1858, 1862-76

1862 - 970 pages
...compensation the rightful owner will not be overlooked. As Emerson says : v Pay ransom to the owner. And All the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. /"ay Aim." We earnestly trust the time for compensation is not yet past ; that of retribution has been,...
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The Anti-slavery Cause in America and Its Martyrs

Eliza Wigham - 1863 - 194 pages
...compensation, the right/ul owner will not be overlooked. For surely Justice says, with Emerson, — > " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." We earnestly trust the time for compensation is not yet past ; that of retribution has been, is now,...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 7-9

Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...on another. To coin his labour and sweat, Ho goes in pawn to his victim, For eternal years in debt. Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The Slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North 1 give him beauty for rags, And honour, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada I coin thy golden...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 76

1863 - 640 pages
...He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. Pay ranson to the owner, And fill the bug to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. О North 1 give him beauty for rags, And honor, О South ! for his shame! Nevada ! coin thy golden...
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The Anti-slavery Cause in America and Its Martyrs

Eliza Wigham - 1863 - 188 pages
...compensation, the rightful owner will not be overlooked. For surely Justice says, with Emerson, — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner 1 The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." We earnestly trust the time for compensation is not yet...
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Lyrics of Loyalty

Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him ! O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy golden...
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Lyrics of loyalty, arranged and edited by F. Moore, Volume 65

Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For eternal years in debt. Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him ! O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy golden...
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