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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
nd your emotions, but at the way you live, and speak, and act, every hour of your lives. Then she sang Whittier's exquisite hymn:--O, praise an' tanks,--the Lord he come To set de people free; Ana massa tink it day ob doom, Ana we ob jubilee. De Lord dat heap de Red Sea wabes, He just as 'trong as den; He say de word, we last night slabes, To-day de Lord's free men. Here were a thousand people breathing their first free air. They were new born with this delicious sense of freedom. They de Lord's free men. Here were a thousand people breathing their first free air. They were new born with this delicious sense of freedom. They listened with moistened eyes to every word which concerned their future, and felt that its utterance came from a heart which could embrace them all in its sympathies. Life was to them a jubilee only so far as they could make it so by a consciousness of duty faithfully done. They had hard work before them, much privation, many struggles. They had everything to learn — the new industries of the North, their changed social condition, and how to accept their new responsibilities. As she spoke