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Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe, LL.D

	REV. DR. HENRY M. STORRS, the eminent Congregational divine, is a son of 
this first President of the Western Reserve College. The father was one of 
the earliest and strongest to uplift his voice in behalf of the slave; and 
when he died, the then young but now venerable and deeply-revered WHITTIER 
paid to his memory the tribute of his humanizing verses: two of these are 
annexed:
	Joy to thy spirit, brother!
		A thousand hearts are warm. -
	A thousand kindred bosoms
		Are baring to the storm
	What though red-handed Violence
		With secret Fraud combine!
	The wall of fire is round us.
		Our Present Help was thine.
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	Lo, -the waking up of nations,
		From Slavery's fatal sleep, -
	The murmur of a Universe, -
		Deep calling unto Deep!
	Joy to thy spirit, brother!
		On every wind of heaven
	The onward cheer and summons
		Of FREEDOM'S VOICE is given.