I repudiated the idea at
once. They will commend themselves to you, dear Aunty, I am sure, as
honest and truthful.
The President called me to his room yesterday, and asked me about the
treatment which I received from those Seniors. While I was telling him
of it, I noticed that he kept his handkerchief close to his face almost
all the time. I thought at first that his nose bled, or that he had a
toothache; but I afterward believed that he was weeping at the story of
my wrongs. A Southerner, in the Junior Class, said he had no doubt that
the President was laughing heartily all the time. None but a minion of
the slave-power could have suggested this idea. The President felt so
much that he merely told me to return to my room.
But I perceive, by the students with letters and papers in their hands,
that the mail is in. I will add a postscript, if I find a letter from
you; and I will send on the resolutions at once. Write soon, dear Aunty,
to your loving nephew, and to
Yours for the slave,
Gustavus.
CHAPTER IV.
RESOLUTIONS FOR A CONVENTION.
"Nay, and thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou."--HAMLET.
I.
_Resolved_, That the continued practice of wild geese to visit the South
for the winter, flying over free soil--Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill,
Faneuil Hall,--on their way to the land of despotism, cannot be too
loudly deplored by all the friends of freedom in the North; and that the
laws of nature are evidently imperfect in not yielding to the known
anti-slavery sentiments of this great Northern people so far as to make
the instincts of said geese conform to our most sacred antipathies and
detestations.
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