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Why should not Northern members think
That they might innocently wink
At Slavery and its demands,
When such a law securely stands
As that, which hurries day by day
The panting fugitive away
From any section of the land,
To toil beneath the tyrant's hand!
Our noble Doctor Pennington,
Distinguished as a clergyman,
And one of Freedom's advocates
Throughout Great Britain and the States,
By this vile law would be in danger,
The same as any obscure stranger,
Could he not show within a trice
That he has paid the market price
In some remote vicinity
Of Doctors of Divinity.
That they might innocently wink
At Slavery and its demands,
When such a law securely stands
As that, which hurries day by day
The panting fugitive away
From any section of the land,
To toil beneath the tyrant's hand!
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Distinguished as a clergyman,
And one of Freedom's advocates
Throughout Great Britain and the States,
By this vile law would be in danger,
The same as any obscure stranger,
Could he not show within a trice
That he has paid the market price
In some remote vicinity
Of Doctors of Divinity.
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