24 MAY 1913, Page 16

A QUOTATION.

[To TER EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can any of your readers tell me the authorship of the following couplet ?

" Hear it, ye senates, hear this truth sublime,

He who permits oppression shares the crime."

I have been much interested by your stalwart position with regard to the crime of slavery in the late numbers of the