,"
one of them ran a cane under the delusion and punched me with it,
keeping stroke to the music. This was little short of profaneness. They
asked me if the chair-maker's harnesses were probably made by free or
slave labor, alluding, unfeelingly, to a mistake which I made in a
recitation one day, when two of those very students had kept me talking
about slavery up to the very moment when the recitation-bell rang, so
that I had not looked at my lesson. There are men in my class, and
these were some of them, who, I am told, are plotting to prevent my
having the first appointment, to which they know that my marks at
recitation entitle me. But may I never be so prejudiced against those
who differ from me on the subject of slavery as to deny them credit for
things which they have fairly earned. I leave this to the avowed enemies
of human rights. For the cause of the slave, I must gain the first
appointment.
I alluded, just now, to my feelings at witnessing tricks played on the
Freshmen. Had the Sophomores asked my advice before they played those
tricks, I should have dissuaded them; but when they played them, with
such courage and enterprise, I stood before them with admiration. But
while I was under that quilt, I found that I did not admire the
Sophomores at all, any more than I did the Seniors who then had me in
their power.
The enemies of freedom, in College, had a great triumph the other
evening. One of them, in one of the Literary Societies, read an Original
Poem, the title of which was, "The Fly-time of Freedom." He spoke of
"our glorious summer of Liberty" being infested and pestered with noisy,
provoking things, which he characterized under the names of dor-bugs,
millers, and all those creatures which fly into the room when the lamp
is lighted; the swarms of black gnats which are about your head in the
woods; horse-flies which stick, and leave blood running; and
devil's-darning-needles. One brave man here, a great "friend of
freedom," who, they falsely say, loves to be pers
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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.