The American Prejudice Against Color - An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got - Into An Uproar. by William G. Allen
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communications between her and Julia, (her sister--who was favorable to
our union) and our family has been broken off--strictly prohibited; and Hibbard's house, on the hill, is the watch tower to guard Elder King's house against such dangerous invaders as ourselves. "When I came from Syracuse that morning, Hibbard was at the depĂ´t on the watch. In the afternoon I went up to the Elder's, and was met on the door-step and told not to deliver any messages or letters to Mary. Of course, I had none with me to deliver, and so I told Elder King. But I saw Mary in the presence of the family and Hibbard, and Mrs. Case and Mrs. Sherman, and such like--for Elder King's folks have a great many such sympathisers now. "I wanted to say some things to her not in the presence of these strangers--so to speak--in the family; _but she told me that she was permitted to say no word to any one but in the presence of such companions as were appointed for her. I went away sad, for Mrs. King is trying to torment her soul out of her, by constant upbraidings and railings_. "Yesterday morning Sarah (Mrs. Porter) started to go up to see her, not having seen her since the affair of the mob; but a cutter from Phillipsville whipped by her, and when she had got near the house, the cutter came back bringing Elder King, who told her that they thought it advisable to request her not to go to his house--that, in a word, _they were determined to prevent all communication between our family and Mary_. Sarah came back. In the meantime, a man came to see me--Mr. Case--to tell me that I must not go to Elder King's--_that I could not go there without getting hurt_. In fact, I had been that morning to Fulton early, to see the Editor of '_The Patriot_;' while I was going |
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