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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
His daily dose an old “unread And unreferred” petition. ‘Papers and memorials touching the subject of slavery shall be laid on the table without reading, debate, or reference.’ So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton. There Hayes and Tuck as nurses sat, As near as near could be, man; They leeched him with the ‘ Democrat;’ They blistered with the ‘ Freeman.’ Ah! grisly portents! What avail Your terrors of forewarning? We wake to find the nightmare Haleled with stones and brickbats. And bravely strewed their hall about With tattered lace and trimming? Was it for such a sad reverse Our mobs became peacemakers, And kept their tar and wooden horse For Englishmen and Quakers? For this did shifty Atherton Make gag rules for the Great House? Wiped we for this our feet upon Petitions in our State House? Plied we for this our axe of doom, No stubborn traitor sparing, Who scoffed at our opinion loom, And took to homespun wearing? Ah, Moses!
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Notes (search)
preaching abolition on a writ drawn by Hon. M. N., Jr., of Pittsfield. The sheriff served the writ while the elder was praying. Note 7, page 118. The academy at Canaan, N. H., received one or two colored scholars, and was in consequence dragged off into a swamp by Democratic teams. Note 8, page 119. Papers and memorials touching the subject of slavery shall be laid on the table without reading, debate, or reference. So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. Atherton. Note 9, page 120. The Female Anti-Slavery Society, at its first meeting in Concord, was assailed with stones and brickbats. Note 10, page 168. The election of Charles Sumner to the United States Senate followed hard upon the rendition of the fugitive Sims by the United States officials and the armed police of Boston. Note 11, page 290. For the idea of this line, I am indebted to Emerson, in his inimitable sonnet to the Rhodora,— “If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is it