counterplottings

Updated: May 13, 2025

In that circle of colored gentlemen, were the keen sallies of wit, the admirable repartee, the satire now severe, now playful, upon the measures of the colonial government, the able exposure of aristocratic intolerance, of plantership chicanery, of plottings and counterplottings in high places the strictures on the intrigues of the special magistrates and managers, and withal, the just and indignant reprobation of the uniform oppressions which have disabled and crushed the colored people.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

But inside, like every Court, it was a den of quibble, quarrel, envy, and the hatred which, tinctured with fear, knocks an anvil-chorus from day-dawn to dark. A thousand people made up the household of Philip the Fourth. Any one of these could be dismissed in an hour the power of Olivarez, the Minister, was absolute. Very naturally there were plottings and counterplottings.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 : Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists