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feeling the duties and obligations
of men resting upon them; but
they were under rules made for
boys, who are not supposed to have
assumed such responsibilities.
The rules of the school forbade
the formation of an Anti-Slavery soci-
ety; all discussion [crossed out: of the subject]
either written or oral, and public
declamation ^on that subject^ in the school.
One young man, a professing
Christian of considerable ability
though somewhat indolent, of very
excitable and pugnacious conscience
against all matters standing in
the way of his wishes: broke over
the rule, by speaking a very in-
flammatory and insulting piece
upon the stage, in the presence
of Dr Johnson. He was expelled
for it and received very little
sympathy from the A.S. party in school.