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Pigg knew this at once, so she asked: "What would you like to do, Buddy?" "I don't know," he answered, rather cross and fretful-like, which wasn't very nice, I suppose. "All the boys have gone to Asbury Park or Ocean Grove," said Brighteyes, "and I guess you are lonesome, Buddy.
Finally it began to rain Negro voters, and as one man they voted against their former candidates. Their organisation was perfect. They simply came, voted, and left, but they overwhelmed everything. Not one of the party that had damned Robinson Asbury was left in power save old Judge Davis. His majority was overwhelming. The generalship that had engineered the thing was perfect.
He thence traveled southward and, on the 15th of the same month, met Francis Asbury at Dover, Delaware. At this first meeting, Coke suggested the founding of an institution for higher education, to be under the patronage of the Methodist Church. This was not a new idea to Asbury; for, four years previous to this meeting, John Dickins had made the same suggestion to him.
Asbury to take charge of his patients, that his overseer had to be looked after. He told me he was going to the plantation, and I would have asked him when he was coming back, but he was in one of his unsatisfactory ways looked just like his mouth had been dipped in hot sealing-wax, so I held my tongue."
"Some one fancied he had a better chance by slipping off than in remaining here, and has looked after his own safety. I wish I knew who it was." "We can soon find out," remarked Capt. Asbury; "our men are not too numerous for me to forget their names and voices." He raised his tones and summoned them.
If they were given time to organize they could sweep the captain and his little party from the earth. There was reason to believe they would do that very thing, now that Duke Vesey was at liberty to spread his account of the last outrage. Capt. Asbury held a brief consultation with his men, all, including Sterry, taking part.
In 1772 Wesley sent over Francis Asbury, a man of shrewd sense and deep religious feeling, to act as his assistant and representative in this country.
It was difficult and almost impossible between the date of the speech of acceptance and the first of October to revive interest in the Democratic campaign and to bring about a renewal of hope of success that had almost been destroyed by the psychological results of the Maine election. Frequent demands were made upon us at the Executive offices at Asbury Park to get busy and to do something.
Nor was he deficient in his other qualifications as a Minister of Christ. When Brother Curtis fell from the walls of Zion, it might have been truly said, "A Prince in Israel has this day exchanged the earthly for the Heavenly Crown." During this year Rev. D.H. Muller was Pastor of Asbury Church. Brother Muller entered the Conference in 1861, coming from the Biblical School at Evanston.
"Yes, and here comes another!" cried his sister, and, sure enough, another wave came sizzling and sloshing up out of the pond. And then another, and another, and another, until there were a dozen, or, maybe a dozen and a half of waves, one after the other. "Oh, this is grand!" cried Buddy. "It's almost as good as Asbury Park!" and, really it was, I'm not fooling a bit.
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