Yoke

,—of slavery, is what men of all nations bend their necks to with cheerful submissiveness, and to such things, that lap-dogs would not submit to, but contemptuously wag their tails at. State ministers and church ministers are yoke-masters to the whole of the civilized world, and man is now so accustomed, so wedded to it, that he would think himself robbed of his rights, if deprived of it. Year after year, day after day, he renews his toil for others to enjoy the sweets of that labur, and goes as mechanically to it as the ox to the plough, and succeeding generations claim the yoke as an hereditary privilege.