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partially and haltingly performed: The taint 

 of Slavery still adheres to us with rank repul- 

 siveness and sinful shame. Abolished by Eng- 

 land, France and Holland it is left for the land 

 of freemen to stand shoulder to shoulder with 

 Turkey and Muscovy in the rear ranks of Civ- 

 ilization's columns; its heel on the breast of 

 the hapless Negro precisely as Muscovy grinds 

 hers on the bosom of the cringing Serf. 



Education, that must set both free, has yet 

 to accord to us that Freedom of Speech, that 

 Equality before the Law, now wrongfully de- 

 nied to the poorer and weaker and the irrelig- 

 ious of the citizens of the World. 



And to abate the lengthy hours of toil, the 

 saddenning overwork of unjustly kept down 

 women and stunted little children. And ban- 

 ish the brutishness of the majority of the peo- 

 ple, the arrogance and frivolity of that minor- 

 ity : the rich and great, and the frenzying in- 

 fluence of the Arch Fiend, Rum. Above all 

 it must exorcise the horrible nightmare Relig- 

 ion from every priest cursed land ; substitu- 

 ting the pure, the noble, the holy creed of 

 Thomas Paine : the Doing of Good to all in 

 that common World which is our universal 

 country. Thus shall we answer the problem 



