Endnotes + 

A machine of this description was really the invention of a young colored man in Kentucky. ↩ + 

Dr. Joel Parker of Philadelphia. ↩ + 

These lines have been thus rather inadequately translated: + 

“Think, O Jesus, for what reason + 

Thou endured’st earth’s spite and treason, + 

Nor me lose, in that dread season; + 

Seeking me, thy worn feet hasted, + 

On the cross thy soul death tasted, + 

Let not all these toils be wasted.” + 

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