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Show 100 Tllll NOJI!THLY OFFERING. to yon1" She assented, and he began, in a tone of mingled rid;cu\e and irony to read aloud, but as he continued, the wnrds " wives torn from thetr hu~bands, mothers I rom their children" ~eemed strangely to interrupt his utterance. He slid in a parenthesis," For a\\ this I am very sory." l:lut after he hnd finished and made sundry inquiries as to the number of subscribers obtained, the touch of grace vanished and the man's natuml feeling returned. "Now, my good young lady, let me !lave a little talk "·ith you. I really feel sorry to see you running about on such an errand. I suppose you have heard of the Crusaders, havnt't you l" I assented. "Well, every body now a days laughs at the Crusaders; everybody thinks they were very ridiculous people: now you are acting just like the Crusaders. Freeing the slaves is a perfect Crusade, I dare say all the things on this paper you have brought are true enough; but only look at the matter reasonably. If it be our duty to be working for people as far off' a• the slaves, whv, if we should succeed and free them, there would be half the world still in some difficulty or other, am\ the same reasons that make it right to help the slaves would bring all these other people on our hands r so you see," ended he, in a triumphant tone, " it is no use for yot1 to begin, for where are you to stop 7" I ndmitted the truth of a part of what he said, and add· ed that 1 supposed it was the duty of all Christians to labor for the annihilation of all suffering, during the whole of their lives, that to do this was one of the reasons for which they were sent into this world. A laugh on his part, and an avowal that we all had better manage our own affairs, and leave those of our neiahbors, closed the interview. I met with but little of gr0ss"'abnse. One lady turned me out of the house with much violence of manner, declaring that I must mean to insult her. I found the sol\ltion of her conduct in the fact that she was, before marriage, a Eoutherner, and a slave-holder. Another, the wife of a distinguished merchant, when some allusion was made to the sufferings of the slaves, exclaimed," It is all a ANTI·SLAVERY EXPERIENCE. 101 perfect farce'!'_' and angrily left the room, leaving me stand· mg on the mrddle of the floor. Peace to the memory of one amrable old _IadJ:, since dead, who, though the widow of a ~1an once hrgh m state, complimented me on my kindness 10 travellrng so far as was the District of Columb' I explarned to her her mistake, and she replied," Wh/ai thought, ~y dear, as you was only trying to help the slav~s 10 the D1stnct of Columbia, you must belong there · els why doni you try to do somethino- for the rest as v~u sae, there ts so many." I again expl~ned, and sb~ kindlv ~ai~ she would thmk about th~ matter. One did not "know ~vhat her ~usband would thmk about it, and a large ma· orJty coldly rndrcate? that the whole subject of slavery beL ohrt of tht appr_opnate sphere of women, was one in wbic~ t ey too c no tntere_st. l obtained but a sin ale sio-nature ~t was that of an intelligent looking girl, wh~ cam~ to th~ 'oor,_ and who anxrously asked what success I met. Mr Hamson Gray Otrs ushered me from the room with mu h em~ressment, and Lieut. Gov. Armstrong, as far as I cou~d conJeCture, from a sort of dumb show t Jd h' ·r gi~e her name. ' o IS Wile not to h One nam~, though obtained on another day I judge t Y of mentron here ARe D h' h . ' warworld, said to his w.ife, "Gi:~ y:~r '!am~n i~h;oth1~logibal sake use of.your own christian name, d~n't u~e '::{neu'~ o Jt was written, Julia so and so not Mrs .. might have compromised the int~rests of .a-n--, ~vhrch wh · 1 · I ' assocJatron mi~fs~:r:emtosshacttrve y engla!l'cd in the work of raising more B u more pu prts. farth~~ le\me purhue the uncomfortable remembrance no ~ors h~d s~~~;ded~~~t ~~;[{8:1~~re~s~iri~ed. All ~Y tre-m fact, so amazed that wo ' a ts~ourage ' and tic ties were such ob· t ~e?, to whom the!T own domcsly esteem th f 6ec s o Impoztance, should apparent- Th. ose o ot ers of no consequence at all snme IwS orwka s five years . sine e, an d I h ave gone · over the ly has my every y:ar, m the interim. Slowly, very ~lowsuccess Increased, and now, in 1840, so harden- |