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The hatred of slavery was revived in all its intensity by such cases as that of Margaret Gorden in 1856. This unhappy mother had escaped from Kentucky with her four children to the house of a free colored man below Mill Creek in Hamilton County, where they remained concealed with thirteen other fugitives.
Every day I heard innumerable jokes and pleasant anecdotes; interesting hunting stories, in which his friends Oswell, Webb, Vardon, and Gorden Cumming were almost always the chief actors. I was not sure, at first, but this joviality, humour, and abundant animal spirits were the result of a joyous hysteria; but as I found they continued while I was with him, I am obliged to think them natural.
Absalom Jones, Rev. Richard Allen, James Forten, Robert Douglass, Francis Perkins, Rev. John Gloucester, Robert Gorden, James Johnson, Quamoney Clarkson, John Summersett, Randall Shepherd. JAMES FORTEN, Chairman. RUSSELL PARROTT, Secretary. In 1827, in New York, was begun the publication of Freedom's Journal, the first Negro newspaper in the United States.
"Exactly." Rives nodded. "Shall I announce to him it once the vote of Congress conferring on him the supreme power?" "Not if you can approach him more carefully," Alexander cautioned. "I can first propose that as Commanding General he might accept the peace proposals which Francis Preston Blair has brought from Washington " "What kind of peace proposals?" Gorden asked sharply.
"Am I a slave, to sit in solemn rapture at your feet and await your nod?" "You seemed to eagerly await the nod of another man to-night." She laughed. "Am I not your serene-browed Grecian goddess whose untamed eyes of primeval womanhood proclaim the end of slave marriage?" Gorden winced, scowled and was silent. "I like the beautiful ceremony you invented.
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