I addressed it, in a moderate tone; though I think that I used some gesticulation.

Said I: Personation of the Slave-power! predatory, grasping, black! thinkest thou a panting fugitive lies hid under my "delusion ?" or wouldst thou seize a freeman?
The AEgis of Massachusetts is over me.

Gape! Yawn! Thou art powerless; but thy impudence is sublime .-- Ten or fifteen voices then solemnly chanted these words:-- "Emblem of Slavery Clutching the Free! We've digested the turkey That gobbled oil thee.
Sure as THANKSGIVING hastened, Cock-turkey! thy hour, Thanksgivings shall blazon Thy downfall, Slave-power! "The Slave-power has talons, Like Nebuchadnezzar; Slaves are the Lord's flagons Our modern Belshazzar From the Temple of Nature Has stolen away.
'Mean!' 'Mean!' be writ o'er him! Wrath! canst thou de"-- Here screams of laughter, and a scampering in the entry, and the turkey's leg tumbling into my room, ended the trick and their cantillation.

I was wishing to hear, in the next stanza, the idea that as the tendons of the claw were worked by a foreign power, so slavery at the South owes its activity to Northern influence.

Perhaps it is due to myself to say that the word scampering, a few lines above, has no revengeful reference, in its first syllable, to the author of the trick.
The cause of humanity, I find, has a tendency to make one cautious and charitable in his use of words.
They have anti-slavery meetings in the village, now and then, which I attend.