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Said Martin V. Delany: "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands.
The only sure way, therefore, to prevent Tony's escape would be by not giving Delany the chance to change his testimony; and by waiving examination before the magistrate and consenting voluntarily to having his client held for the action of the grand jury, in which event Tony would be sent to the Tombs and there would be plenty of time for Simpkins to get an assignment of Mrs.
In view of the changed conditions, Delany and others who disagreed with Douglass felt that for the good of the race in the United States the whole matter of emigration might receive further consideration; at the same time, remembering old discussions, they did not wish to be put in the light of betrayers of their people.
The son immediately whispered to him for a moment, when the old man instantly rose, got his hat, and after drinking another bumper of the poteen, departed. "Twas hardly worth while," said Delany; "the ould fellow is mettle to the back-bone, an' would never show the garran-bane at any rate, even if he knew all about it."
In the railway carriage I turned over some letters and papers which I found in my pockets, not with deliberate intention, but to while away the time. One scrap startled me. It was the sheet on which Brande had written the Woking address, and on reading it over once more, a thought occurred to me which I acted on as soon as possible. I could go to Woking and find out something about the man Delany.
Delany, who seems to have understood from these words that her Majesty was in the habit of exploring the booths of Moorfields and Holywell Street in person, could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. "Why," said the Queen, "I don't pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever; and, if they are not to be had at the booksellers, they are not for me more than for another."
Old Colonel Delany, whose "optics" were so very "keen" to spy out the danger of his son's forming a mésalliance, was stone blind when such a misfortune threatened Alice, liked the young man very much, and could see nothing out of the way in his attentions to his niece, and finally refused to close his doors against him at his son's instance.
'Tis nothing at all but that confounded egg, he said, raising that untasted delicacy a little towards his nose. 'Why the divil will you go on buying our eggs from that dirty old sinner, Poll Delany? And he dropped it from its cup plump into the slop-basin. 'A then maybe it was, said poor Mrs. Mac, smiling as well as she could; 'but I'm better.
The telephone buzzed on the wall set beside him. "That you, chief?" came the voice of Simpkins. "Yep." "Got one off Delany." "What is it?" "Kid smashed a window malicious mischief. Held for examination to-morrow at two. Five hundred bail." "Any sugar?" "Don't know. Says his father's dead and mother earns seventeen a week in a sweatshop and sends him to school. Got some insurance.
CULP, D.W. Twentieth Century Negro Literature, or a Cyclopedia of Thought, Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by One Hundred of America's Greatest Negroes. DE BOW, J.D.B. Industrial Resources of the Southern and Western States. DELANY, M.R. The Condition of the Colored People in United States.
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