An account of the imprisonment and sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge : who while peaceably and quietly and rationally in possession of his own house, was seized and detained in the M’Lean Asylum for the Insane, at Charlestown, Mass. 65 days, from June 24th, to August 28th, 1832, together with some remarks on that institution by Robert Fuller
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Overview: I am happy to say, as St Paul said to King Agrippa, that I can answer for myself. — I make the following narration not from feelings of malice or enmity, but from a sense of duty, which I owe to myself, my family and friends. I have been wronged, and I should think myself almost destitute of the feelings of humanity, did I not expose these wrongs, and use my feeble strength in awakening the public to the evils that exist. When one has been falsely accused, imprisoned, and persecuted nearly unto death, it is both his right and duty to make such an exposition of the whole affair as will tend to prevent its recurrence. The mariner, who should discover rocks and shoals,which he had narrowly escaped, and to which others would be exposed,would be regarded as a monster, did he not give information, and warn all who should go that way to avoid them. I sound the alarm not so much for my own good as for others. What has been done cannot be undone. The inju- ries I have received cannot be atoned for. No mat- ter what acknowledgments may be made ; no matter what offerings of sympathy maybe tendered; no matter what acts of kindness are performed— all cannot blot from my memory the sufferings I endur- ed, nor draw the mantle of oblivion over the injustice, cruelty, folly and madness of my professed friends.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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