Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles, Letters to the Editors, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Use of Free Produce Description An account of the resource For the Genius of Universal Emancipation. THE USE OF FREE PRODUCE. "No, dear lady, none for me? Though squeamish some may think it, West India sugar spoils my tea; I cannot, dare not, drink it." New-Orleans sugar possesses the same properties. It is to our taste, and we hope to that of many of our readers, undrinkable; for there are associations connected with it, which its sweetness cannot cover. Yet we, will confess, that it requires, at times, some firmness, and is not a little unpleasant to the feelings, to pronounce decisively the rejecting negative. In a company of strangers, you would gladly escape the kindly meant importunity, which obliges you, though conscious of being, at the moment, a subject of general remark, for those who will consider your opinions affected or singular, to assign a reason for your repeated refusal to partake of anything which is imbued with "the spirit of the cause." And it is still more painful to feel yourself compelled to disappoint the active kindness which, unaware of your scruples, has exerted itself to provide some delicacy for your gratification, or tasked ingenuity to spread before you a board, covered with what, to you, are forbidden viands. Then is the strongest temptation to break through your resolution. You know that so much pains have been taken, solely on your account, you fear that your reasons will not be understood, or felt, and, gratified as you are by the motive which has induced the offering, you cannot bear to think of the look of mortification, and hurt or offended feeling, which you are conscious will meet your meditated refusal. Yet should you weakly yield, and suffer your good nature to induce you to violate your principles, what will you have gained? An exemption from a temporary uneasiness, at the expense of an approving conscience, a consistent example, and probably of the ability to remain firm on a future occasion. While, by persisting in your determination, though you reasons, at first, may not appear satisfactory, or well understood, you will have an opportunity of fairly explaining your sentiments, of engaging in a useful discussion, and, perhaps, bringing light and conviction to some who have never before thought upon the subject. Yet if there be some disagreeable passages occasionally attendant upon this system of abstinence; it has also its redeeming hours, when such trivial embarassment are far more than overpaid. They come in the low-whispered commendation of a satisfied conscience;--in the approbation of those whom you esteem; and in the heartfelt joy of having won over some one whom you love to mingle in the delight of such a moment; you rejoice, not that you have made a convert, but that the slave has gained a friend. While even the slight alloy  of selfish affection, that blends with your pleasure, renders it only the dearer. But in more trifling things than these, there is often a sweet gush of happiness. It comes, though not unmingled, to be sure, in even the tone of regret with which some less scrupulous friend laments the stern rule which dooms the delicacies before you to remain untasted, and your tea to be swallowed sugarless. And still dearer is the kindness, which, bending to your principles, exerts itself to procure you a share of the good things of the festal board, unsullied by the crime for which you reject them. A half formed sigh may mingle with the wish that the table before you was always so spread, but it cannot dispel the pleasure with which you meet the affectionate smile of the eye and lip that bids you partake without fear of the proffered cake, and drink your tea, sweetened as it is, unscrupulously. We have some such remembrances around us now, and we know they will compensate for many an unpalatable meal;--try it for yourself, gentle reader, and prove whether the system of abstinence is a harsh one. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gertrude Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Genius of Universal Emancipation 1:10, p. 155 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1.1831