I am not
discouraged. God will guide us and protect us.
"Ever yours,
"MARY."
'"Thou Friend, whose presence on my wintry heart
Fell like bright Spring 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.
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