ecuted, and longs for
martyrdom, and interprets everything that way, he described as a miller,
who seems to court death in the flame. I think he aimed at me in
speaking of soft, harmless bugs which creep over your newspaper or book.
Many faces were turned to me as he repeated these lines. I am sorry to
say the piece was much applauded. It has put back the cause of
emancipation in College, I fear, a term.
The following introduction to another piece was written, and was read,
at the same meeting, by a member of my own class. I fear that there is a
sly hit intended by the writer, which I do not discern, at somebody, or
something, related to freedom. This I suspected from the applause it
excited on the part of those who I know are the most deadly foes we have
to free institutions. I obtained a copy of this introduction. It will
serve, at least, to show you, dear Aunty, what a variety of topics we
have to excite our minds here in College. You can exercise your
discretion about letting uncle read it, as it is on a subject of some
delicacy. The writer says,--
"I am collecting facts from our daily papers illustrating the Barbarism
of Matrimony. My list of wives poisoned, beaten, maimed for life by
their husbands, and of divorces, cruel desertions, the effects on wives
of intemperance in husbands, is truly fearful. I make no question that
there are some happy marriages. But a relation which affords such
peculiar opportunities for cruelty to women, must sooner or later
disappear. No doubt the time will come when marriage will be deemed a
relic of barbarism, and a bridal veil be exhibited as one of the mock
decorations of the unhappy victims. Human nature in man is not good
enough to be trusted with such a responsibility as the happiness of
woman. Let Bachelors of Arts, on our parchments, suggest to us our duty
to aid, through our example, as well as by words, in breaking this
dreadful yoke, bidding those innocent young women who are now, perhaps,
fearfully looking at us as their future opp
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.