“Resolved,—­That Amalgamation is no part of the Free Democracy of Granby.” (Town near F.)

The Editor of the Fulton newspaper, however, spoke of us with respect.  Let him be honored.  He condemned the mob, opposed amalgamation, but described the parties thus,—­“Miss King, a young lady of talent, education, and unblemished character,” and myself, “a gentleman, a scholar, and a Christian, and a citizen against whose character nothing whatever had been urged.”

I have said that some of the Papers regretted that I had not been killed outright.  I give an extract from the “Phoenix Democrat,” published in the State of New York:—­

“This Professor Allen may get down on his marrow bones, and thank God that we are not related to Mary King by the ties of consanguinity.”

To show that I have not exaggerated the spirit of persecution which beset us, I will state that in a few days after Mr. Porter was dismissed from his School, he called upon the pastor of the church of which he is a communicant; and though without means—­the chivalrous people who turned him out of his School not having yet paid him up—­and knowing not whither to go, the pastor assured him that he could not take him in, or render him any assistance, so severely did he feel that he would be censured by the public.

That Mr. Porter is still pursued by this fiendish spirit, the reader will see by the following paragraph of a letter received from him a few days since:—­

“I have advertised for a School in S——.  They would not tolerate me in O——­, after they found out that I was the Phillipsville School-master.  I was employed in O——­ three months.”

Such, reader, is the character of prejudice against color,—­bitter, cruel, relentless.

THE END.

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A SHORT

PERSONAL NARRATIVE,

BY

WILLIAM G. ALLEN,

(Colored American,)

  FORMERLY
  PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
  IN NEW YORK CENTRAL COLLEGE

RESIDENT FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS IN DUBLIN.

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  DUBLIN: 
  SOLD BY THE AUTHOR,
  AND BY
  WILLIAM CURRY & CO., 9, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET, AND
  J. ROBERTSON, 8 GRAFTON-STREET.

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  1860

  PRICE ONE SHILLING.

  DUBLIN:  PRINTED BY ROBERT CHAPMAN,
  TEMPLE LANE DAME STREET.

PREFACE.

In preparing this little narrative, I have not sought to make a book, but simply to tell my own experiences both in the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States of America, in as few words as possible.  The facts here detailed throw light upon many phases of American life, and add one more to the tens of thousands of illustrations of the terrible power with which slavery has spread its influences into the Northern States of the Union—­penetrating even the inmost recesses of social life.