Where bastard Freedom waves
The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins,
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains....