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As well. A reverend doctor of divinity writing in a Cincinnati
newspaper, wondered "how a man of sense could enter that amalgamation
college. If this professor would go to Liberia and display his eloquence
at the bar there; or, if he has any of the grace of God in his heart,
enter the pulpit, he would then be doing a becoming work." From Augusta,
Georgia (Slave State), I received the following document, signed by
several parties, and containing the picture of a man hanging by the
neck, under which was written, "Here hangs the Professor of Greek!"
"Augusta, Geo. Nov. 1850. "Sir,--We perceive you have been appointed
Professor of Greek in New York Central College. Very well. We also
perceive that you have occasionally lectured in the North on the
'Probable Destiny of the African Race.' Now, Sir, if you will only have
the kindness to come to Augusta, and visit our hemp yard, you may be
sure that your destiny will not be _probable_, but certain. "Signed,
------ ------ ------" Of course I did not go to Augusta, Georgia. These
assaults and attempts at ridicule served to bring me into general
notice. I soon found that, by reason of them, and without merit or
effort of my own, I had become known throughout the whole country as
"the Colored Professor." I had a status. The lady being the daughter of
a highly respectable minister, she also had a status. To permit
therefore the union of these parties would be to bring the principle of
amalgamation into respectability. So reasoned those who attempted to
reason on behalf, or rather in excuse, of the mob. "We are sorry," they
went on condescendingly to say, "for Professor Allen, for though a man
of color, he is nevertheless a gentleman, a Christian and a scholar. Bu