Angels
Independent Press
Independent Press 1833-12-30
Negative notice
Transcription
“The Middletown Sentinel and Witness, contains a statement from a man who says that he saw an Angel at Chatham, Con.—that the Angel communicated the important intelligence that Hannah Marsh and Caroline Blood had experienced religion,—that somebody had turned Universalist,—and that the world would pass away before the year 1848.”
“The Editor of Brooklyn Unionist, (advocating we believe a union between the white and black races) in remarking on this statement, says he sees half-a-dozen Angels a day with pouting lips;—the man must half fallen in love with “half a dozen” misses of color!” Verily, we opine that he would not be united to one of the charming Philisses very long, before he would become an advocate of immediate emancipation. ”
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"Philisses" here is a cruel taunt against Black talent and intelligence, as it mocks the accomplishment of Phillis Wheatley, the Black woman poet of the Revolutionary Era
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