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...MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY and RECONSTRUCTION By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from... ...Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...NSTRUCTION ..................... 16 4 MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY By Frederick Douglas First printed in The Cnetury Illustrated Magazine, November 1881. I... ...th, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, My Escape From Slavery 5 Frederick Douglas were essential features in the undertaking. My success was due to a... ...red of a colored man how I could get on to New York. He directed me to the William-street depot, and thither I went, taking the train that night. I re... ... “Allender’s Jake,” but in New Y ork he wore the more respectable name of “William Dixon.” Jake, in law, was the property of Doctor Allender, and Toll... ... two Quaker gentlemen who were about to take passage on the stage,—Friends William C. Taber and Joseph Ricketson,—who at once discerned our true situa...

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...The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, ... ...Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ic transmission, in any way. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M., the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...Scott The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, ... ... of that exiled race? Can I not mountain maiden spy, But she must bear the Douglas eye? Can I not view a Highland brand, But it must match the Douglas... ...ust match the Douglas hand? Can I not frame a fevered dream, But still the Douglas is the theme? I’ll dream no more,— by manly mind Not even in sleep ... ... disobedient to my call, Wailed loud through Bothwell’s bannered hall. Ere Douglases, to ruin driven, Were exiled from their native heaven.— O! if yet... ... else dared give—ah! woe the day, That I such hated truth should say!— The Douglas, like a stricken deer, Disowned by every noble peer, Even the rude ... ...is all unstrung, Still, still it loves the Lowland tongue. ‘For O my sweet William was forester true, He stole poor Blanche’s heart away! His coat ...

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... mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglass, fair, smart, and forty, a generous, good hearted soul and well ... ...n you going to try the cat?” “To night. I reckon they’ll come after old Hoss Williams to night.” “But they buried him Saturday. Didn’t they get him Sa... ...s water baffled pursuit. Half an hour later he was disappear ing behind the Douglas mansion on the summit of Cardiff Hill, and the school house was h... ...d this matter inwardly. Then Tom whispered: “Say, Hucky — do you reckon Hoss Williams hears us talk ing?” “O’ course he does. Least his sperrit does.... ...e does. Least his sperrit does.” Tom, after a pause: “I wish I’d said Mister Williams. But I never meant any harm. Everybody calls him Hoss.” “A body ... ...ty. All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams’ grave and felled Potter to the earth with it — and in the same ... ...mptuous smile flitted across Injun Joe’s face. “Were you anywhere near Horse Williams’ grave?” “Yes, sir.” “Speak up — just a trifle louder. How near ... ...of going to Joe Harper’s we’ll climb right up the hill and stop at the Widow Douglas’ . She’ll have ice cream! She has it most every day — dead loads ... ...d ‘a’ said go there if she’d ‘a’ thought of it. I know she would!” The Widow Douglas’ splendid hospitality was a tempting bait. It and Tom’s persuasio...

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...EPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi- son, we learn that th... ...ican names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going for Douglas. I think you will find less than fifty. But even if you find fifty,... ...t man insisting that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties,... ...ot yet say when. Can you not see me at Monticello on the 6th of September? Douglas and I, for the first time this canvass, crossed swords here yesterd... ...y truly, A. LINCOLN. 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO DR. WILLIAM FITHIAN, DANVILLE, ILL. BLOOMINGTON, Sept. 3, 1858 DEAR DOCTOR:—Y o... ...ttending court. Y ester- day, before I left Springfield, your brother, Dr. William S. Wallace, showed me a letter of yours, in which you kindly mentio... ... voted on that question. Of these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibi- tion, thus showing that, in their underst... ...n that Congress, and voted on the question. They were Will- iam Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the pro- hibition thus showing that, i... ... Gilman, Wm. S. Johnnson, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, Thos. Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Claimer,...

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...on A Tale of Flodden Field by Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO CANTO FIRST. TO WILLIAM STEW ART ROSE, ESQ. Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is ch... ...nd so dull and stern. 61 Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO CANTO THIRD. To WILLIAM ERSKINE, ESQ. Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. Like April morning clouds,... ..., that could oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands. XI. Crichtoun! though now thy miry court But pens the laz... ...d has to Henry borne.” 135 Sir Walter Scott XIV. He paused, and led where Douglas stood, And with stern eye the pageant viewed - I mean that Douglas,... ...is locks and beard in silver grew; His eyebrows kept their sable hue. Near Douglas when the monarch stood, His bitter speech he thus pursued: “Lord Ma... ...herald come again. Then rest you in Tantallon Hold; Your host shall be the Douglas bold - A chief unlike his sires of old. He wears their motto on his... ... hasty speech forgive! For sure as doth his spirit live, As he said of the Douglas old, I well may say of you – That never king did subject hold In...

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... place to be in: I had forgotten the child’s name; I hadn’t imagined it would be needed again. However, I had to pretend to know, anyway, so I said: “... ...’t you think so?” “I suppose it must be.” “Hi, there’s Mount Pilatus coming in sight again. Named after Pontius Pilate, you know, that shot the apple ... ...t it, they say. I didn’t read it—an American told me. I don’t read when I’m knocking around like this, having a good time. Did you ever see the chapel... ... and clatter. He could not have six horses all the time, so he made the most of his chance while he had it. Up to this point we had been in the heart ... ...is what the Matterhorn is—a monu- ment. Its office, henceforth, for all time, will be to keep watch and ward over the secret resting-place of the youn... ...e Parks of artillery than the ghastly forms of death which he has faced among the peaks and precipices of the mountains. There *The accident which cos... ...d their bodies were afterward found, lying side by side, upon a glacier, whence they were borne to Zermatt and buried in the churchyard. The remains o... ...half past five, on a brilliant and perfectly cloudless morning. We were eight in number—Croz (guide), old Peter Taugwalder (guide) and his two sons; L... ...t was best for Croz to go 249 A Tramp Abroad first, and Hadow second; Hudson, who was almost equal to a guide in sureness of foot, wished to be third...

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...46 The Stokesley Secret French phrases. She looks up in dull stupefaction. William Rufus is disposed of, and David, as grave as a judge, is taking up ... ...avourite and Miss Fosbrook will not find them. Your affectionate son David Douglas Merrifield. “Oh! this was the letter David insisted on sealing befo... ... after, when the post came in, there was a letter directed to Master David Douglas Merrifield, Stokesley House, Bonchamp. It was a great wonder; for D... ... with the ten shillings if they had not made haste to secure it. So “David Douglas Merrifield” was written, with much difficulty to make it small enou...

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.... That’s the auld Border law, made at Dundrennan, in the days of the Black Douglas, Deil ane need doubt it. It’s as clear as the sun.” “Come away, the... ...ant here?” were the queries of the respectable progenitor. “We are seeking William Graeme of Westburnflat,” said Earnscliff. “He’s no at hame,” return... ...ter and Derwentwater, when a troop, commanded by a Border gentleman, named Douglas, con- sisted almost entirely of freebooters, among whom the noto- r... ...committed on our East-Indian trade by Green and the English thieves,” said William Willieson, half-owner and sole skipper of a brig that made four voy...

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... agone, in the old war, when I 19 James Fenimore Cooper was out under Sir William, I travelled seventy miles alone in the howling wilderness, with a ... ...celebrated among us as the wars of King Philip; but the peaceful policy of William Penn, or Miquon, as he was termed by the natives, effected its obje... ...the game, and you wanted a boat to carry it about in. When I went with Sir William agin’ the French, at Fort Niagara, all the rangers used the rifle; ... ...if they keep on fighting across the water.” “Thou reasonest with judgment, William,” returned Marmaduke. “So long as the Old Worm is to be convulsed w... ... s a green spot; take it out like men, while Jotham and I see fair play.” “William Kirby , I order you to do your duty,” cried Hiram, from under the b... ...rs. CHAPTER XXXI “ And dar’st thou then T o beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall” —Marmion. THE COMMOTION was just subsiding, and the in...

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...bad cold in the head when De Wilton was re-knighted; and when “the hand of Douglas was his own,” he jumped up and shouted out, “Well done, old fellow!... ... And some remarks highly adverse to the volunteer movement were cut short. William Andrews, groom, had been called by Anne Ellis, had seen the wound, ...

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...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and... ...tronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...ctronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frederick Douglas My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas By a principle essen... ...t entered the House of Commons; like Pitt, too, he stood up a born orator. William Lloyd Garrison, who was happily present, writes thus of Mr. Douglas... ...pated in it. In the society, moreover, of Wendell Phillips, Edmund Quincy, William Lloyd Garri- son, and other men of earnest faith and refined cultur... ...itten a “pass,” at the age when Miller’s style was already formed. I asked William Whipper, of Pennsylvania, the gentleman alluded to above, whether h... ...through Aunt Katy’s hands, it was made more slender still, for some of us. William, Phil and Jerry were her children, and it is not to accuse her too ... ...D BARNEY—HIS PROFESSION—WHIPPING—HU- MILIATING SPECTACLE—CASE EXCEPTIONAL— WILLIAM WILKS—SUPPOSED SON OF COL. LLOYD—CURIOUS INCIDENT—SLAVES PREFER RIC...

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...kinsman Mr. Balfour of Pilrig, to Stewart the Writer that was Appin’s agent, and to William Grant Esquire of Prestongrange, Lord Advo- cate of Scotlan... ...lfour! – lay in close dungeons, and shackled forbye, in the military prison at Fort William; none allowed in to them, nor they to write. The witnesses... ...e recommendation. I would have to make the journey back again betwixt here and Fort William. Then would follow a fresh delay till I got fresh authorit... ...s should come from. And at any rate, I would not wish to kill, only to be Catherine Douglas that put her arm through the staples of the bolt, where it... ...but I do better with caller air and the lift above my head. I’m like the auld Black Douglas (wasnae’t?) that likit better to hear the laverock sing th... ...ee huge towers and broken battlements of Tantallon, that old chief place of the Red Douglases. The horse was picketed in the bottom of the ditch to gr...

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...maybe Mary. Aunt Polly — Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is — and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with... ... all the year round — more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but ... ...shiny eyes, HUCKLEBERRY FINN 40 and says: “What might your name be?” “Sarah Williams.” “Where ‘bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’ “No’m. In Ho... ...e. Pretty soon she says, “What did you say your name was, honey?” “M — Mary Williams.” Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it was Mary before, s... ...you said it was Sarah when you first come in?” “Oh, yes’m, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah’s my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary.... ... other things just to make certain. Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you get into trouble you send wo... ...ing is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocrac... ...n’t seen him since they was boys together — and hadn’t ever seen his brother William at all — that’s the deef and dumb one — William ain’t more than ...

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... power of speech a moment, and stared at me in a 93 Stevenson perfect enthusiasm of fear. ‘Why not?’ I continued. ‘The idea is good. I should be safe... ...though! Let some of your Frenchies come over here to invade, and you’ll see whether or not! Oh, yes, I’m En- glish to the backbone, I am. And yet look... ...ith the man whom I must approach next day with my tale of the drovers, and whom I yet wished to please? I stooped in turn. ‘A chevron,’ I said; ‘on a ... ...shed to please? I stooped in turn. ‘A chevron,’ I said; ‘on a chief three mullets? Looks like Douglas, does it not?’ ‘Y es, sir, it does; you are righ... ...ish form?’ ‘Well, sir, it was pretty ‘ard, the form was, and reether narrow,’ he replied. ‘I don’t know w’y it is, but it seems to me like as if thing...

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...s and years pass swift with men T o time’s last goal descending.’ —Issac Williams. THE UNITED FORCE of the younger generation has been brought upon ... ...n had died a gallant death. The Clotho was on her way home, and Midshipman William Clarence Winslow was to be tried by court-martial for insubordinati... ...d all men fast asleep, There came the spirit of fair Marg’ret And stood at William’s feet.’ —Scotch Ballad. WHEN I emerged from my room the next morni... ...n Fordyce, though there was not much in common between her and the maid of Douglas. Indeed, it was a joke of her father’s to tease her by criticising ... ... to tease her by criticising the fa- mous passage about the tears that old Douglas shed over his duteous daughter’s head—’What in the world should the...

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...d with them when I mayn’t ever have any occasion to use ‘em. There was Lance Williams, he learned how to talk Choctaw here till one come and dug his g... ...stripes wrig gling and winding around over it, which was rivers. The Widder Douglas always told me the earth was round like a ball, but I never took ...

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... he had been at Versailles. During the entire siege, the Prince of Orange (William III. of England) had unavailingly used all his science to dis- lodg... ...mself secure upon the throne. But a usurper is never tranquil and content. William was annoyed by the residence of the legitimate King and his family ... ...hing fact is, that the King, who at heart was more offended than ever with William of Orange, treated this ambassador with the most marked distinction... ... for they are the spots upon which people never walk. The King of England (William III.) lost the Duke of Gloucester, heir-presumptive to the crown. H... ...on of the Princess of Den- mark, sister of the defunct Queen Mary, wife of William. His preceptor was Doctor Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, who was in t... ... from Paris to Alencon. He charged 695 Saint-Simon with this duty Colonel Douglas (who belonged to the Irish (regiments) in the pay of France), who, ... ... and nothing which could render him suspected of being capable of a crime. Douglas got into a post-chaise, accompanied by two horse- men; all three we... ...uld infallibly be informed. She persuaded them of this so thoroughly, that Douglas went away without saying where, except to this third horseman just ... .... She proposed to the horseman to drink something, because when he arrived Douglas had left the table. She served him in her best manner, and with her...

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...er part of his life, the dignified and sternly simple Abbaye aux Hommes of William the Conqueror and the graceful, richly ornamented Abbaye aux Dames ... ...an de Rou 7 in the stirring account of the advance of the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings:— “T aillefer, who sang rig... ...le, and to abate his pride. The armies drew together upon the banks of the Douglas. The two hosts fell one upon the other furiously, and many a sergea... ...y. When he heard the tidings of what had be fallen Colgrin at the Ford of Douglas, and of how he was holden straitly by Arthur in York, he was passin...

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...nanters, remained just the man he was. [The caution and moderation of King William III, and his principles of un- limited toleration, deprived the Cam... ...that tied blessed Mr. Cargill’s limbs till the blude sprung; and Dunbarton Douglas, the twice-turned traitor baith to country and king. There was the ... ... man and a fasting.’ Now these were the very words that the bloody Earl of Douglas said to keep the king’s messenger in hand while he cut the head off... ...ll obey your respected instructions, being your most obedient to command, ‘William Crosbie.’ When Mr. Fairford received this letter, and had read it t... ...denly surprised by a chosen band of insurgent patriots. Their chiefs were, Douglas, Randolph, the young Earl of Moray, and Sir Simon Fraser; and their... ...e’s condition did not prevent Alberick from engaging in the undertaking of Douglas and Moray. He had been the most forward in the attack of the castle... ...ould observe. The Abbot of Dundrennan preached consolation to him in vain. Douglas, who came to visit in his affliction a patriot of such distinguishe... ... as the despotism, of an Eastern sultan permits to his slave. The usurper, William of Nassau, went forth to hunt, and thought, doubtless, that it was ... ...d that, like other Jacobites, in his inveteracy against the memory of King William, he had adopted the party opin- ion, that the monarch, on the day h...

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...f of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The Talisman his expedition to the Holy Land with the heart ... ...man his expedition to the Holy Land with the heart of King Rob- ert Bruce. Douglas, impatient to get at the Saracens, entered into war with those of S... ... of Richard, who made no distinction betwixt his own subjects and those of William of Scotland, excepting as they bore themselves in the field of batt... ...— from whom hadst thou degree of knighthood?” “I took it from the sword of William the Lion, King of Scotland,” replied the Scot. “A weapon,” said the... ...hard. “I should have known him better—I should have remembered how the fox William deceived me touch- ing this Crusade.” “My lord,” said Sir Kenneth, ... ...illiam deceived me touch- ing this Crusade.” “My lord,” said Sir Kenneth, “William of Scotland never deceived; but circumstances prevented his bringin... ... a Scot,” said the King. “I hold Saladin to be truer to his word than this William of Scot- land, who must needs be called a Lion, forsooth; he hath f...