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G upon some herbless plain; How beautiful and calm and free thou wert In
thy young wisdom, when the mortal chain Of Custom thou did'st burst and
rend in twain, And walked as free as night the clouds among."' Some idea
of the spirit of persecution by which we were pursued may be gathered
from the fact, that when the mobocrats of Fulton ascertained that Miss
King and myself were having an interview in Syracuse, they threatened to
come down and mob us, and were only deterred from so doing by the
promise of Elder King, that he would go after his daughter if she did
not return in the next train. CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSION. Reader,--I have
but a word or two more to say. Insignificant as this marriage may seem
to you, I can assure you that nothing else has ever occurred in the
history of American prejudice against color, which so startled the
nation from North to South and East to West. On the announcement of the
probability of the case merely, men and women were panic-stricken,
deserted their principles and fled in every direction. Indignation
meetings were held in and about Fulton immediately after the mob. The
following Resolution was passed unanimously in one of them:--
"Resolved,--That Amalgamation is no part of the Free Democracy of
Granby." (Town near F.) The Editor of the Fulton newspaper, however,
spoke of us with respect. Let him be honored. He condemned the mob,
opposed amalgamation, but described the parties thus,--"Miss King, a
young lady of talent, education, and unblemished character," and myse
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