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Show II. LETTERs FROM NoRTHERN WoMEN. FROl\i these letters of Northern women I l1aye omitted such pa sages only as I suppose the writers would not wish to see published. Requests for autographs and locks of lutir abound in all the letters ; but, for sufncient reasons, I lu\Ve stricken most of them out. FROl\I A 1\!ASSACIIUSETTS 1\IATnON. [:\fASSACHUSF.'fTS,] Nov. 8. Dear and Honored Frientl: At last my bonds nrc loosed, nnd I can write you n word of love and h elping. Comfort and clieer you 1Hlvc from obedience to that eternal law of 1·igltt God 1-ltampccl in suc:h living characters upon your soul when he sent it forth to do its work among the children of men. Your sublime allegiance to truth is our comfort and clwar in this sharp trial. Through much nnd sore anguish I have come to look upon the second of December ns the O'lorious birthday of one whom all men will delight to honor wl1en the mist of sin nnd selfishness shall have rolled away forever from their eyes. Dear, brave old friend, you can never die! The gallows , eems no longer a degradation, :since your exnmplc has so hallowed and glorified it! l"or the Trutlt's 11akc I can let vou die; but for our nffection's sake we would put our arms around you nnd hold you here forever. 1 ou nrr. con:stantly in our minds by day and by night. I cnnnot tell you wlmt we all suffered the few fir t days ; and had I not been confined to a sick bed, I think I should have found. my way to that Virginia prison. God bl0ss you forever for your faithfulness to n great principle. Justice, truth, nnd immortality Reem the only realities when contemplated frorn the heights you have achieved. I will try to be a 3.5 ·.~ (413) |