Crossword-Solution: DOWNTROD 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero, and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat, those giant sinews combat and conquer.

Speed, speed the day, O righteous God, To break the fetters, dry the tears, To raise the slave, so long downtrod, Through the dark age of by-gone years! Give but to us the sword of power, To work thy ends, in thine own way, To see the promise of the hour Of this the world's most glorious day.

Plug hats and coats of a latest Tammany style And "pleasure saturnine" did figure cut When first thy mouth did voice the burning thoughts That trickled from a brain much overwrought By meditation on conditions here Which bore so heavy on this downtrod race.

Old Man Wright he turns to me one evening when we was setting by the fire in our room, and he says to me: "Well, Curly, how are you enjoying yourself now in this hard and downtrod position that life has gave to you?" "I don't like it none, Colonel," says I; "not none at all, nohow." "Why don't you join a cowpunchers' union, then?" he ast.

Well, I 'spose hany weather's considered good enough for the likes of hus! Hany weather'll do for pore downtrod slaves to assert their man'ood and their hindependence in! (_Cries of "Shame!"_) Never you mind--hour turn'll come some day! We sha'n't _halways_ be 'eld down, and muzzled, and silenced, and prevented uttering the hindignation we've a right to feel! (_Bellowing._) We shall make our vices 'eard one day! But I'm reminded by my friend as I've got to keep to the pint.