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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, Zeke. (search)
Zeke. A man by the name of Daniel Godwin, in the lower part of Delaware, had a business of buywith your neighbor, Mr.——? continued he. Mr. Godwin was at first puzzled to recollect whom he meher he knew where he was. he replied, O yes, Mr. Godwin, I know where he is, well enough. But I'm smake anything out of him. A bad speculation, Mr. Godwin. Why, what's the matter with Zeke? askedne cent's worth of good. A bad speculation, Mr. Godwin. The prospect seemed rather discouraging,he would behave better if he was free, urged Mr. Godwin. That's the only chance there is of his eored man said, Zeke is now free is he? When Mr. Godwin answered Yes, he turned to Friend Hopper and Friend Hopper interfered between them, and Mr. Godwin agreed to go before a magistrate to have thease your honor to grant me a warrant against Mr. Godwin? He violently seized me by the collar; thusr be satisfied with that day's work, and let Mr. Godwin go home. He yielded to this expostulation, [5 more...]<
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The two young offenders. (search)
eople should be excluded from the common privileges of public conveyances. If a hundred citizens in New-York would act as Friend Hopper did, the evil would soon be remedied. It is the almost universal failure in individual duty, which so accumulates errors and iniquities in society, that the ultratheories, and extra efforts of reformers become absolutely necessary to prevent the balance of things from being destroyed; as thunder and lightning are required to purify a polluted atmosphere. Godwin, in some of his writings, asks, What is it that enables a thousand errors to keep their station in the world? It is cowardice. It is because the majority of men, who see that things are not altogether right, yet see in so frigid a way, and have so little courage to express their views. If every man to-day would tell all the truth he knows, three years hence, there would scarcely be a falsehood of any magnitude remaining in the civilized world. In the summer of 1844, Friend Hopper met w