THE BOSTON KIDNAPPING.
A DISCOURSE
TO COMMEMORATE
THE RENDITION OF THOMAS SIMS,
DELIVERED
ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY THEREOF, APRIL 12, 1852, BEFORE THE COMMITTEE OP VIGILANCE, AT THE MELODEON, IN BOSTON.[1]
There are times of private, personal joy and delight, when some good deed has been done, or some extraordinary blessing welcomed to the arms. Then a man stops, and pours out the expression of his heightened consciousness; gives gladness words; or else, in manly quietness, exhales to heaven his joy, too deep for speech. Thus the lover rejoices in his young heart of hearts, when another breast beats in conscious unison with his own, and two souls are first made one; so a father rejoices, so a mother is filled with delight, her hour of anguish over, when their gladdened eyes behold the new-born daughter
- ↑ Rev. Theodore Parker:—
Dear Sir,—We know that we express the earnest and unanimous wish of all who listened to your appropriate and eloquent address last Monday, in asking a copy of it for the press.Yours respectfully,
Wendell Phillips, 
Henry I. Bowditch, 
Committee Timothy Gilbert, 
of John P. Jewett, 
Arrangements. M. P. Hanson,
John M. Spear, 
Boston, April 15, 1852.
