phasis, "I will not 'use' so and so; I
will not 'try' so and so; especially, I will not 'visit' so and
so,--First, It will not be convenient. Secondly, I have no occasion to
do so. Thirdly, I do not know the way; but, Finally, I do not like to be
addressed in this manner, as an overseer of a Southern plantation
addresses a slave. I am not a slave. I am a Massachusetts freeman." This
way of speaking to people, dear Aunty, must be discountenanced. It will,
by and by, beget an aptitude for servile obedience; the eye and ear
becoming accustomed to the forms of domination, we shall have yokes and
chains upon us before we are aware. Some one says, "Let me write the
songs for a nation, and I care not who makes her laws." So say I, Let me
write imperative advertisements on fences and buildings, and all
resistance to Southern encroachments and usurpation will soon be in
vain.
But to resume my narrative. I began to look round, as soon as my
excitement about the runaway horse would allow, for some one to whom I
could open my overburdened mind on the subject of freedom. I espied a
man with an immense load of chairs, from a factory in our neighborhood,
as I supposed, on his way to Boston. Four horses drew the load, which I
saw was very heavy; not so heavy, I thought with myself, as that which
four millions of my fellow-men are this moment laboring with, over the
gloomy hills of darkness in our Southern States. I felt impelled to
address the driver on this great theme. So, before he had reached the
top of the hill, I called out,--
"Driver!"
Perhaps there was more suddenness and zeal in my call than was
judicious, but the driver immediately said "Whoa!" to his horses, and he
ran hither and thither for stones to block the wheels to keep his load
from running back, down hill.
I felt encouraged, by this, to think that he was of a kind and pliable
disposition; and seeing the wheels fortified, and the horses at rest, I
felt more disposed to hold conversation with the man. "Who knows," I
said t
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.