“Ho, then, people of the Bay State,—men, women, and children; children, women, and men, scattered friends of the _friendless_, wheresoever ye inhabit,—if habitations ye have, as such friends have not _always_,—along the sea-beat border of Old Essex and the Puritan Landing, and up beyond sight of the sea-cloud, among the inland hills, where the sun rises and sets upon the dry land, in that vale of the Connecticut, too fair for human content and too fertile for virtuous industry,—where deepens the haughtiest of earth’s streams, on its seaward way, proud with the pride of old Massachusetts. Are there any friends of the friendless negro haunting such a valley as this? In God’s name, I fear there are none, or few; for the very scene looks apathy and oblivion to the genius of humanity. I blow you the summons, though. Come, if any of you are there. “And gallant little Rhode Island; _transcendent_ abolitionists of the tiny Commonwealth. I need not call you. You are _called_ the year round, and, instead of sleeping in your tents, stand harnessed, and with trumpets in your hands,—every one! “Connecticut! yonder, the home of the Burleighs, the Monroes, and the Hudsons, and the native land of old George Benson! are you ready? ‘All ready!’ “Maine here, off east, looking from my mountain post like an everglade. Where is your Sam. Fessenden, who stood storm-proof ’gainst New Organization in ’38? Has he too much name as a jurist and orator, to be found at a New England Convention in ’43? God forbid. Come one and all of you from ‘Down East’ to Boston, on the 30th, and let the sails of your coasters whiten all the sea-road. Alas! there are scarce enough of you to man a fishing boat. Come up mighty in your fewness.” Such timely, pure, and unpremeditated expressions of a public sentiment, such publicity of genuine indignation and humanity, as abound everywhere in this journal, are the most generous gifts which a man can make. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THOMAS CARLYLE AND HIS WORKS.[9] Footnote 9: Graham’s Magazine, Philadelphia, March, 1847.