Show Commenting on the platform adopted by the Republicans of Massachusetts the Ienver epoblican says The money plank of the platform adopted at Boston yesterday reminds us forcibly of Whittiers cutting lines regarding re-garding the attitude of similar influences influen-ces in Massachusetts during the antislavery anti-slavery agitation preceding the war Massachusetts God forgive her Shes a kneeling with the rest The lines quoted are not Whittier but Lowells and are from the Bigelow Papers The full stanza runs MassachUsetttU i God forgive her She akneelin with the rest She that ough to ha clung forever In her grand old eaglenest She that oughto stand so fearless Wile the wracks are round her hurled Holdin up a beacon peerless To the oppressed of all the world |