XII.
And in conclusion,
_Be it Resolved_, That Bunker Hill was since Mount Sinai, that Faneuil
Hall is far in advance of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; and that our
anti-slavery literature is immeasurably beyond epistles to Philemon and
other inspired pro-slavery tracts.
CHAPTER V.
THE GOOD NORTHERN LADY'S LETTER FROM THE SOUTH.
"No haughty gesture marks his gait,
No pompous tone his word;
No studied attitude is seen,
No palling nonsense heard;
He'll suit his bearing to the hour,
Laugh, listen, learn, or teach.
With joyous freedom in his mirth,
And candor in his speech."--ELIZA COOK.
[My friend, A. Freeman North, having read the foregoing, returned it
with a hasty note, in pencil, saying, "Please send me the Aunt's reply,
if you have it, or can procure it." I accordingly sent it, and we have
it here.]
MY DEAR NEPHEW,--
Your letter came while we had gone into the country for a fortnight.
Hattie is much improved, and I trust will soon be well. I gave her your
letter to read. She told me that she could not find it in her heart to
wonder at you for it; for once she should probably have written very
much in the same strain.
It was Easter Monday afternoon when our steamboat reached the wharf. We
took an open carriage and drove toward the hotel. As we reached the
centre of the city, the place seemed to be full of colored people, who
evidently had just come out of their meeting-houses. This was our first
view of the blacks. Our driver had to stop frequently while they were
crossing the streets, and we had full opportunity to enjoy the sight.
Hattie exclaimed, after looking at them a few moments,--
"Why, Uncle, they are human beings!"
"What did you suppose they were?" said he.
"Uncle," said she, "these cannot be slaves. Where do you suppose the
yokes are?"
"Now, Hattie," said he, "you were not so simple as to suppose that they
wore yokes, like wild cows and swine."
"Why," said she, "our papers are always telling about their
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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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