| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 124. Garrison |
| | | By Amos Bronson Alcott |
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| FREEDOM’S first champion in our fettered land! | |
| Nor politician nor base citizen | |
| Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor withstand. | |
| Thy trenchant and emancipating pen | |
| The patriot Lincoln snatched with steady hand, | 5 |
| Writing his name and thine on parchment white, | |
| ’Midst war’s resistless and ensanguined flood; | |
| Then held that proclamation high in sight | |
| Before his fratricidal country men,— | |
| “Freedom henceforth throughout the land for all,”— | 10 |
| And sealed the instrument with his own blood, | |
| Bowing his mighty strength for slavery’s fall; | |
| Whilst thou, stanch friend of largest liberty, | |
| Survived,—its ruin and our peace to see. | |
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