. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . lavery and applauded the Coloni-zation Society as offering a practicable escape from the evils of it. TheSong of the Slave, set, we are told, to a pathetic air. was sung atthe conclusion of the exercises. We copy three of the six cjuatrains fromThe American A(kocate of July 8, 1829: From the plains of the South, as in beauty they lay, With their sloping sides kissed by the oceans green wave,As he bent oer his toil at the close of the day,Came sad and desponding the song of the slave^ In
. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . lavery and applauded the Coloni-zation Society as offering a practicable escape from the evils of it. TheSong of the Slave, set, we are told, to a pathetic air. was sung atthe conclusion of the exercises. We copy three of the six cjuatrains fromThe American A(kocate of July 8, 1829: From the plains of the South, as in beauty they lay, With their sloping sides kissed by the oceans green wave,As he bent oer his toil at the close of the day,Came sad and desponding the song of the slave^ In the land of the stranger, despised and forlorn, We drag out our lives neath the scourge and the name a reproach, our suffering a cry for relief from oppression in vain. O yet while the vengeance of heavn is delayed. Ere your crimes shall have filled up the cup of your woe ;In pity relent at the wreck ye have bind up the hearts that lie bleeding and low. The Williams College Temperate Society was formed in July,1827, with fifty-seven members. They adopted a constitution which. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 55 prohibited the use of ardent spirits and wine except for wounds, incase of sickness, by the advice of a physician, at the sacrament, or whennecessary for the preservation of hfe. This pledge was regarded bysome as unnecessarily stringent, and occasioned no little criticism. Itis true. said the advocates of it, we were ahead of public had taken high and no\el ground, in which the public were not pre-pared to sustain us. * * * But we are not of the number of thosewho idly pretend that we must merely keep pace with public opinion onthis subject and not attempt to lead it. The dissatisfaction resulted inthe autumn of 1827 in the formation of a second organization with amilder constitution— The New Temperance Society of Williams Col-lege. At the annual meeting of 182S this society passed a resolution de-claring that the use of ardent spirits in any c
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