...the famous hut on Emerson's wood-lot with the famous axe borrowed from Alcott, was put in jail for refusal to pay his polltax, and, to sum up much in little, signed off from social obligations. I, Henry D. Thoreau , have signed off, and do not hold myself responsible to your multifarious uncivil chaos named Civil Government. When his college class held its tenth reunion in 1847, and each man was asked to sen...