Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems

Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?
Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?
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How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!
It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.
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The sixties brought a clash of arms—
The mem'ry of it thrills and charms—
While Negro slaves for freedom prayed,
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Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,
Who to lift a fallen people had a work of worth begun,
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Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,
How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part,
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In the State of 'Old Palmetto,' from the town of Eutawville,
Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses to be still.
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The ills of all the human race,
The woes of earth that bring disgrace
Would banish, if we only could,
Escape the fiend, Misunderstood.
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The Southern pulpit, in our eyes,
Descends to make a compromise
With evil things in heaven's name;
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When Egypt said, 'Exterminate
The males among the Jews,
Fair Goshen's land make desolate
And bid them glad adieus:'
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When a Negro comes in question you may watch the Southern press,
See how bias its opinions, how his ills are given stress,
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