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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 9 1 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. E. C. Pierce. (search)
To Mrs. E. C. Pierce. New York, May 27, 1841. Your last letter was all filled with accounts of your outward life. What do I care whether you have one room or six, provided you are happy? I want to know what your spirit is doing? What are you thinking, feeling, and reading? As for feeling, you cannot, I know, reveal to me or any one the world of sweet emotions that are now opening in your heart; but you can give me a glimpse. And see that you do it, instead of telling me how many gowns the baby has, and whether he sleeps in a swing cradle. You need not tell me about working all the time. You shall not do it. There is no sense in burying your soul under butter and cheese, any more than under laces and ruffles. Your husband, be he ever so plain a Friend, must mind me, and observe stated seasons. On every anniversary of your wedding day, he must give you a book .. My task here is irksome to me. Your father will tell you that it was not zeal for the cause, but love for my
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. (search)
w roused her up to write it. Behold how God makes the wrath of man to praise him! Charles Sumner has made a magnificent speech in Congress against the Fugitive Slave Law. How thankful I was for it! God bless him! The Republican party don't know how to appreciate his honesty and moral courage. They think he makes a mistake in speaking the truth, and does it because he don't know any better. They do not perceive how immeasurably superior his straightforwardness is to their crookedness. History will do him justice. It is really droll to see in what different states of mind people read Uncle Tom. Mr. Pierce, Senator from Maryland, read it lately, and when he came to the sale of Uncle Tom, he exclaimed with great emotion, Here's a writer that knows how to sympathize with the South! I could fall down at the feet of that woman! She knows how to feel for a man when he is obliged to sell a good honest slave! In his view the book was intended as a balsam for bereaved slave-holders.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To David Lee Child. (search)
don't come, I shall put on your old hat and coat, and vote for you. Alas, I am afraid it is no matter what New England does, since Pennsylvania and Illinois seem likely to go so wrong. My anxiety on the subject has been intense. It seemed as if my heart would burst if I could not do something to help on the election. But all I could do was to write a song for the Free Soil men. If you had been here I should have had somebody to admire my effort, but as it is I don't know whether anybody likes it or not. I have been told that the Boston Post was down upon me for the verse about President Pierce. I could n't help it. His name would not rhyme to anything but curse! . . . The scenery up in that hilly region must indeed be beautiful this sunny autumn. I should mightily enjoy rambling about with you, but then I think the pleasure would be more than balanced by the liability of being called upon by such highly respectable people. I should demur about heaven itself on such terms.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
peal the, 145. Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 229. Phillips, Wendell, confronts a mob, 147-149; defends the Chinese, 251; tribute of, at Garrison's funeral, 254; his remarks at Mrs. Child's funeral, 263. Philothea, by Mrs. Child, XI., 21. Pierce, Mrs. E. C,, letter to, 42. Pierce, Senator, of Maryland, on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 69. Pocasset tragedy, the, 254. Princess of Thule, A, by William Black, 223. Progress of Religious Ideas, The, by Mrs. Child, XII., 65, 77, 265. ProgressiPierce, Senator, of Maryland, on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 69. Pocasset tragedy, the, 254. Princess of Thule, A, by William Black, 223. Progress of Religious Ideas, The, by Mrs. Child, XII., 65, 77, 265. Progressive friends, meeting of the, 81. Prohibitory law, aim and effect of the, 222. Protestant reformation, the, helped on by base agents, 187. Protestant reformation in England, the, 32. Q. Quincy, Edmund, presides at an anti-slavery meeting, 150; anecdote of, 173. R. Randolph, John, on the insecurity of slave-holders, 133. Raphael and Michael Angelo, 76. Rejected Stone, The, by M. D. Conway, 160. Renan's Life of Jesus, 245. Richmond Enquirer, the, on the subserviency