ressors, to be forever free.
In the language of young Hamlet: 'I say, we will have no more
marriages.'"
* * * * *
Just before dark one evening, I was sitting in my room, meditating on
the great theme which absorbs my thoughts. My eye was caught by the
bright bolt of my door-lock, the part of the bolt between the lock and
the catch showing, beyond question, that the door was fastened. Some one
on the outside had turned a key upon me.
I had the self-possession to be quiet, for my mind had been calmed by
reflecting, in that twilight hour, that now one more day of toil for the
poor slaves was over.
But as I looked at the bolt, my attention was diverted by something near
the top of the door, moving with a strange motion. It was black; it
opened and shut. I drew toward it. I found that it was the leg of a
turkey, the largest that I ever saw. It was held or fastened in the
ventilator over the door, while some one on the outside was evidently
pulling the tendons of the claw, making it open and shut.
There it performed its tragi-comic gibes for several minutes.
I resumed my seat, unterrified, of course, and proceeded to turn the
spectre to good account. I addressed it, in a moderate tone; though I
think that I used some gesticulation. Said I: Personation of the
Slave-power! predatory, grasping, black! thinkest thou a panting
fugitive lies hid under my "delusion?" or wouldst thou seize a freeman?
The AEgis of Massachusetts is over me. Gape! Yawn! Thou art powerless;
but thy impudence is sublime.--Ten or fifteen voices then solemnly
chanted these words:--
"Emblem of Slavery
Clutching the Free!
We've digested the turkey
That gobbled oil thee.
Sure as THANKSGIVING hastened,
Cock-turkey! thy hour,
Thanksgivings shall blazon
Thy downfall, Slave-power!
"The Slave-power has talons,
Like Nebuchadnezzar;
Slaves are the Lord's flagons
Our modern Belshazzar
From the Temple of Nature
Has stolen away.
'Mean!' 'Mean!' be
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.