Notes: Remonstrance
This is the first and the greatest of the ‘Street-cries’: see the introductory note to ‘Life and Song’.
For an interpretation of the poem see ‘Introduction’, pp. xxix [Part III], xlv, xlvii [Part IV].
26, 33. Amusing illustrations of such intolerance may be found in ‘Jack-knife and Brambles’ (Nashville, 1893), by Bishop Atticus G. Haygood, of the Methodist Church, South. One brother, we are told (p. 278), objected to hearing Bishop Haygood in 1859 because of his wearing a beard; while another (p. 281), along in the thirties, voted against licensing Bishop George F. Pierce because his hair was “combed back from his forehead”!
46. For an account of Socrates, the Greek philosopher, poisoned in 399 B.C., see Xenophon’s ‘Memorabilia’ and Plato’s dialogues.
47. See St. Matthew 27:20.
54. For the burning of Nicholas Ridley, an English Bishop, on October 16, 1555, see Green’s ‘Shorter History of England’. Michael Servetus, a Spanish scientific and theological writer, was burned as a heretic at Geneva, October 27, 1553.