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Quincy— Saturday 12. August 1843
12. IV. Saturday.
- Lunt William P.
-
White Franklin
- Loring Thomas.
- Johnson William C
- Sarah A Johnson
- Adams Isaac H
- Elizabeth C Adams.
Sun rose cloudy.— The return to a sedentary life from a month of great
and constant agitation, excitement and over exercise forms a trial of
the Constitution— It seems as if a hurricane had passed over my spirits;
and now, when they have been a whole week settling down into the
ordinary quiet current of rural Summer life, exercise is necessary to
save them from falling into Syncope— My time for exercise is from the
hour of rising till breakfast; and if I miss it then the day is very apt
to slip through without it— For exercise I am obliged to resort to my
garden and seedling trees— I emptied a seedling pot into Mary Louisas Seminary plot, where there
is now a seedling Apple stock—An Englis Oak and a shagbark walnut, all
of the third year— When Mr Curtis was here day before
yesterday, I agreed to meet him in Boston next Monday Morning, to
execute the deeds of exchange with the purchasers of the Tremont
Theatre— Also to meet Mr Fuller the administrator of
Moses Gill junr.
and endeavour to come to a settlement, at the
probate office with him. And further to prepare a Letter to Petty Vaughan at London to be sent by
the Acadia to sail for Liverpool next Wednesday— Mr Curtis dined with us and returned home immediately after
dinner. This day there were visits from Mr Lunt, and Mr Thomas
Loring of Hingham with whom I agreed to go upon our usual
annual fishing party from Cohasset, next Thursday. Isaac Hull Adams and his Sister Elizabeth
William C. Johnson, and his
sister Sarah were here, and the
latter is to stay with Mary-Louisa, while upon her visit here— We
received a Piano from Boston, upon hire by the week. The Boston Courier
of this morning republishes from the Bangor Courier my Letter of 4 July
last to the Bangor Committee for celebrating the anniversary of the
emancipation of Slaves in the British West India Islands; with all the
errors of the Bangor, and several more. Not a word of comment upon the
Letter is in either of the papers— I expected the publication of that
Letter; and wrote it for the purpose of exhibiting in as brief a compass
as possible my principles, feelings and opinions, relating to the
abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade throughout the world— I meant
it as a note of defiance to all the Slave-holders, Slave traders and
Slave breeders upon earth. As the experiment of Summons to the whole
Freedom of this Union in its own defence, I sent it forth alone, to try
its Fortune in the world, and made it purposely bold and startling, to
rouse if possible both friend and foe— The two publications without
comment, give no promise of a rally for the support of Freedom. As yet
there is no hostile notice of it abroad— It may remain altogether
unnoticed, which is the worst fate that can befall it—for if I can but
raise a controversy by it—that is; an adversary worthy of being
answered, it shall be if my life and health will admit, a text book for
future enlargement and illustrative for the whole remnant of my toilsome
days.
