is idea. The President felt so
much that he merely told me to return to my room.

But I perceive, by the students with letters and papers in their hands,
that the mail is in. I will add a postscript, if I find a letter from
you; and I will send on the resolutions at once. Write soon, dear Aunty,
to your loving nephew, and to

Yours for the slave,
Gustavus.

CHAPTER IV.

RESOLUTIONS FOR A CONVENTION.

"Nay, and thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou."--HAMLET.

I.

_Resolved_, That the continued practice of wild geese to visit the South
for the winter, flying over free soil--Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill,
Faneuil Hall,--on their way to the land of despotism, cannot be too
loudly deplored by all the friends of freedom in the North; and that the
laws of nature are evidently imperfect in not yielding to the known
anti-slavery sentiments of this great Northern people so far as to make
the instincts of said geese conform to our most sacred antipathies and
detestations.

II.

_Resolved_, That the abolitionists of Maine, and of the British
Provinces, resident near the summer haunts of said geese, be requested
to consider whether measures may not be adopted whereby anti-slavery
tracts, and card-pictures illustrating the atrocious cruelties of
slavery, and appeals to the consciences of the South, or at least
instructions to the colored people as to their right and duty to assert
their liberty, may not be fastened to these birds of passage, to make
them apostles of liberty; so that while they continue to disregard the
bleeding cause of humanity, their very cackle may be converted into lays
of freedom.

III.

Whereas we read in the Revelation a description of the wall of heaven as
having "on the South three gates," a number equal to that assigned to
the North,

_Resolved_, That this description being in total disregard of the great
modern anti-slavery movement, the book which contains it cannot have
been divinely inspired; and that a true anti-slavery Bible would have
represented those pro-slavery gates as shut, with the inscription over
them: Enter from the North.

IV.

_Resolved_, That the great abolitionist who represents himself in his
speeches as baptizing his dogs, in just ridicule of the baptism of
chattel slaves, is worthy, with his dogs, of a place in the heavens
among the constellations; and that anti-slavery astronomers be requested
to make a Southern constellation for them so