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...5 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York TO HONORABLE GERRIT SMITH, AS A SLIGHT TOKEN ... ...HIP , AND AS A Small but most Sin- cere Acknowledgement of HIS PRE-EMINENT SERVICES IN BEHALF OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AN... ...41 Frederick Douglas within its secluded precincts. Whether with a view of guard- ing against the escape of its secrets, I know not, but it is a fact,... ...nge and terrible, con- nected with the huge black tombs, were a very great security to the grounds about them, for few of the slaves felt like approac... ...r heard any songs like those anywhere since I left slavery, except when in Ireland. There I heard the same wailing notes, and was much affected by the... ...quality—herrings, which would bring very little if offered for sale in any northern market. With their pork or fish, they had one bushel of In- dian m... ...ng, that being “hanged in England, is better than dying a natural death in Ireland.” I had the strongest desire to see Baltimore. My cousin Tom—a boy ... ..., the day before, chopping wood, I filled the cart with a heavy load, as a security against another running away. But, the neck of an ox is equal in s... ...ry gate through which we had to pass, we saw a watchman; at every ferry, a guard; on every bridge, a sentinel; and in every wood, a patrol or slave- h...

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... rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of four... ...recognised, these have been reburied in private graves, so that the mourners might erect separate headstones over the remains. In all such cases he ha... ...e for thus writing you, for oh, my heart is so very sorrowful. A husband writes: My dear kind sir. Will you kindly inform me whether there are any ini... ...General the Attorney-General the majority of the judges and the ole of the legal profession but through ill elth in my family and the treachery of a f... ...iving man, it has been hasped and padlocked. I cannot quite satisfy my mind whether it was originally meant for the reception of coals, or bodies, or ... ...re violent shrieking, face- making, and gesticulating, greater vehemence of speech and countenance and action, went on about that Bottle than would at... ...the Beadle did it, was this: he summoned me as a Juryman on his Coroner’s In- quests. In my first feverish alarm I repaired ‘for safety and for succou... ... of the Narrows, and got out to sea; also in many an idle hour at sea in sunny weather! At length the observations and com- putations showed that we s... ...th the observations and com- putations showed that we should make the coast of Ireland to-night. So I stood watch on deck all night to-night, to see h...

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...ould be all the wedding-presents. Jewels, and a motor, and a silver dinner service, did she mean? Not a bit of it! She could see he’d never given the ... ...ing would ever again be as sweet as this. And then they had only a year of security before them; and of that year a month was gone. Reluctantly he swa... ...ace where coffee awaited him, he had recovered his usual pleasant sense of security. Susy was there, fresh and gay, a rose in her breast and the sun i... ...ht blurt out something ill-ad- vised. The old habit of being always on her guard made her turn once more to the looking-glass. Her face was pale and h... ...mall for her age: her little round chin was barely on a level with the tea-service, and her clear brown eyes gazed at Susy between the ribs of the toa... ...bably thought of, least often, was a great dull English country-house in a northern county, where a life as monotonous and self-contained as his own w... ...f Great Britain, and Baroness Dunsterville and d’Amblay in the peerages of Ireland and Scotland, I’ll thank you to remember that you are a member of o... ... interval of rest. His wife instantly and exaggeratedly adopted this view, guarding him from the temptation to work as jeal- ously as she had discoura... ... could have chosen she would have crawled away into a dingy inn in a rainy northern town, where she had never been and no one knew her. Failing that u...

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..., good Lord, have mercy on the land. 7 Yo n g e Have mercy on my son,—and guard him when he goes out and when he comes in. Have mercy on the children... ...ain admittance to the castle; and Patrick was re- solved to be well on his guard, though he replied courte- ously to the graceful bow with which the s... ...soul with foul deeds. Bring our King home, and every sword shall be at his service.’ ‘What, when they have all been lavished on the crazy Frenchman?’ ... ...head on his shoulder in loving pride at his exploit, while for her further security Sir James threw round them both the long plaid that had so lately ... ... glittering sun of a clear March day, dry and not too cold for these hardy northern folk. Nigel, the squire, sighed in despondency; and Malcolm, who h... ... art of war as a boy, first under Hotspur, in Wales; nor doth he love that northern fashion of ours of keeping up feud from genera- tion to generation... ...best by leaping into the ditch, taking the spade, and showing the superior security of the angle of inclination traced by the King, but all in vain; b... ...e it! ’Tis the sword of my knighthood, when poor King Richard dubbed me in Ireland; and many a brave scheme came with it!’ The soft movement of the ba... ...L THE BEGGING SCHOLAR AR AR AR AR ‘THE POOR SCHOLAR,’ now only existing in Ireland and Brit- tany—nay, we believe extinct there since the schoolmaster...

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...e yard some thirty shillings, lined with murrey taffeta, and laid down and guarded with two broad laces of gold and silver. And her hat, sir, was trul... ... “Y onder is the enchanted manor, and the dragon, and the lady, all at thy service, if thou darest venture on them.” “Why, so I would for a quartern o... ...lling, Amy!” said T ressilian. “ Alas! is a prison your dwelling?—a prison guarded by one of the most sordid of men, but not a greater wretch than his... ...collars of the various Orders which lay on the table) “into their place of security—my neck last night was well-nigh broke with the weight of them. I ... ... on their ac- count—namely, first, that T ressilian was the Lord Deputy of Ireland, come over in disguise to take the Queen’s pleasure concerning the ... ...ccording to the phrase of the times, a martialist—had done good service in Ireland and in Scotland, and especially in the great northern rebellion, in... ... done good service in Ireland and in Scotland, and especially in the great northern rebellion, in 1569, which was quelled, in a great measure, by his ... ...sed eyes of mine have seen sparkle in the southern heavens, to which these northern blinkers are but farthing candles, I will be unkindly for no one’s... ... will not oppose it. The ruling party in Scotland look to it as their best security. Spain fears it, but cannot prevent it. And yet thou knowest it is...

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... north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me ... ...d me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services. And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some gre... ... by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services. I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady w... ...rd. I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discov ery towards the northern pole. Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to c... ...e had suffered, and how she had been relieved—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted. During one of their walks a poor cot in... ...on was soon explained. With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orpha... ...ver night and day preyed upon my wasted frame. Still, as I urged our leaving Ireland with such inquietude and impatience, my father thought it best to... ... and listening to the dashing of the waves. I hailed the darkness that shut Ireland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a feverish joy when I refle... ... waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour...

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...ds of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to b...

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...y; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already ren- dered me; namely, first, in having bro... ... by way of example, for accession of territory which adds noth- ing to the security of a frontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladi... ...olemn lights described, with lofty trees meet- ing overhead in arches. The guard’s horn, again—a humble instrument in itself—was yet glorified as the ... ..., was doubtless secretly suggested by my own imperfect effort to seize the guard’s horn, and to blow a warning blast. But the Dream knows best; and th... ...pecuniary embarrassments, such as sug- gested prudentially an absence from Ireland. Meantime, what was it that made him an object of peculiar interest... ...it happened, and indeed it often happened, that Lord Carbery was absent in Ireland. It was probable, there- fore, that during the long couple of hours... ...pened that to this day the riddle, which was read pretty deci- sively in a northern county, still remains a riddle in the south. When I saw the Colleg... ... upon my own expectations, or, at least, that I could do so with the joint security of Lord Westport (now Earl of Altamont, upon his father’s elevatio... ...ch, mov- ing at four and a half miles an hour, brought me through the long northern suburb of Oxford, to a shabby coach-inn, situ- ated in the Corn Ma...

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...ving; and therefore it is my counsel, let him pass, for he shall do you good service in short time, and his sons, after his days. Also ye shall see t... ...s place!” “Now do but hear thyself! Escape? Why, man, the corri dors are in guard and keep of men at—arms.” “No doubt, no doubt. But how many, Claren... ...shall appoint me your per petual minister and executive, and give me for my services one per cent. of such actual increase of revenue over and above... ...nas le Savage; all these he bare down with one spear. When King Aswisance of Ireland saw Sir Gareth fare so he marvelled what he might be, that one t... ...king nor knight have ready cognizance of him. Then Sir Agwisance the King of Ireland encountered with Sir Gareth, and there A Connecticut Yankee in Ki... ... little compliment was enough. She clouded up like storm; she called for her guards, and said: “Hale me these varlets to the dungeons.” That struck co... ...k to get up muscle for my trip, and had climbed the ridge which bordered the northern extremity of the valley, when I came upon an arti ficial openi... ...lerk was astonished and charmed. He asked me to retain one of the dollars as security, until he could go to town and — I interrupted: “What, and fetc... ...ed. It was nightfall now, and I withdrew my pickets. The one who had had the northern outlook reported a camp in sight, but visible with the glass onl...

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...apid motion, and the squire curses his miserly purse that would not hire a guard, and his dame says, I told you so!—Foolhardy man, to suppose, be- cau... ...care must be taken after he has begun to cool and calculate his chances of security, that he do not gather to him a curtain of volunteers and go to sl... ...exhi- bition of ourselves in Europe. It looked as if the blustering French Guard were to have it all their own way. And what 9 George Meredith would ... ... historic for daring, and the strong arm, and artfulness, all given to the service of the country?—men of a magna- nimity overcast with simplicity, wh... ...dsome to feminine eyes, resembling one another in build, and mostly of the Northern colour, or betwixt the tints, with an heredi- tary nose and mouth ... ...fit to drain relishingly every private bogside or mountain-side tap in old Ireland in its best days—the illicit, you understand. Further, to quote Mr.... ...ere the sun should be has a suggestiveness richer than sunlight. I’m quite northern enough to understand it; but with me it must be either peace or st... ...oin to crush. There you get at their point of unity. They will pay for the security of Comfort, calling it national worship, or national defence, if t... ...b-nail boots to dance on our heads. Stukely says you should be off over to Ireland. There you’d swim in your element, and have speechifying from insti...

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...e Heroes...................371 There Was a Child Went Forth..........378 Old Ireland........................................380 The City Dead House...... ...ions, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live... ...occult convolutions! Root of wash’d sweet flag! timorous pond snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mix’d tussled hay of head, beard... ... association marching two and two, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 66 (They go to guard some corpse, the flag tops are draped with black muslin.) I hear th... ...t the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we start we never lie by again. This day before ... ...s at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, Others sternly push their way through the northern winter packs, Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Othe... ...ess;) All the mutter of preparation, all the determin’d arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nur... ...ow my words are weapons full of danger, full of death, For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them, I am more resolute ... ...all harvest, Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security, Not a maize stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace. Un...