The oak trees were the white people.

The acorns were the doctrine of human liberty, everywhere preached by Anglo-Saxons.

The negroes, feasting off of the same thought, had become the same kind of being as the white man, and grew up to a point of equality.

The hurricane was the contest between the two races over the question of equality.

The voice was intended to inform the whites that they had brought about these aspirations in the bosom of the negro, and that the liberty-loving negro was their legitimate offspring, and not a bastard.