 | James Ormsbee Murray - 1883 - 40 pages
...outrage of the poor. I can recall the thrill which shot through the vast audience as the poet said : Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim...owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. I seem still to hear the words float solemnly over the listening, sympathizing crowds, as, recognizing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner t The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honour, O South... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold: — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who ia the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." His sympathies were all and always with... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1885 - 592 pages
...lines. One of its sections was a distinct anticipation of a stanza in Emerson's " Boston Hymn " : — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." The events of 1834 for Garrison were his marriage and the coming of George Thompson from England to... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 362 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 352 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! 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... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 pages
...slavery by compensating the masters. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the thinker, had this to say about it: " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." Congress was ready to pay for the slaves, and so were the people of the Northern States, but the conspirators... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! " ' Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.' " Two years later he spoke on Lincoln's death terse, tender, golden words, which will be remembered... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 516 pages
...some of them. But I well rememthe immense effect with which his beautiful voice pronounced the lines : "Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him! " And Mr. Cabot chronicles the fact that the gran' rißuto — the great backsliding of Mr. Webster... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 468 pages
...the Proclama1 The verse in Mr. Emerson's poem which won loudest applause was that on compensation : " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay Mm ! " CHAP. in. tion had been issued and was coming over the wires. The 1863. storm of applause which... | |
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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. 
