[Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm]@TWC D-Link bookHalf a Century CHAPTER X 2/9
You are a mere baby.
They all thought as you do.
Go home to your mother!" "But I never can go to destruction! No evil can befall me, for He that keepeth Israel slumbers not nor sleeps." She concluded to give me work, but said: "I will send it by a servant.
Don't you come here." I never thrust my anti-slavery opinions on any one, but every Southerner inquired concerning them, and I gave true answers.
There were many boarders in the house, and one evening when there were eighteen men in the parlor, these questions brought on a warm discussion, when one said: "You had better take care how you talk, or we will give you a coat of tar and feathers." I agreed to accept such gratuitous suit, and a Mississippi planter, who seemed to realize the situation, said gently: "Indeed, madam, it is not safe for you to talk as you do." "When reminded of constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech, and his enjoyment of it in my native State, he replied: "There is no danger in Pennsylvania from freedom of speech, but if people were allowed to talk as you do here, it would overthrow our institutions." There were mobs in the air.
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