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Show Letters from Northern Women. like to take the youngest, and educate her in my family as one of them, if you and your friends nrc willing. I have a daughter sixteen years old, and it would be her delight to help educate one of Capt. John Drown's daughters .... Farewell! May God Almighty strengthen you us you arc about to be offered up. CoLui\mus, N ovembcr 28. Dear Sir: Duty and inclination both urge me at this late hour of your affliction to show you at least one token of remembrance and sympathy. The fact of my curly acquaintance with you in former ycnrs, although much younger than yourself, the intimacy that existed between our fathers' families for years, growing out of the relations they sustained to each other as neighbors and citizens, and brethren in the same Church with yourself, cooperating for the establi. hment of a New England town in Hudson, Ohio ; for religion in a church, morals in a town, and education in the founding of the Western Reserve College- all which they lived to sec; the friendship which my (now sainted) father cherished for you, of which you had ample testimony; the high esteem which I had and have now in memory of your worthy (now departed) father, as well as the high respect you su tained in intelligent and religious society; the strong friendship which I now feel for your worthy and nffiictecl sister, Mary Ann, and a heart yearning with tenderness for all in sorrow, and especially now in your peculiar position,- I say all this produces the most intense interest in me as well as thousands of others ; and although I had scarcely heard a word of you for many yeat·s, excepting your Kan ·as trials, and not even particulars of that ; yet when I first heard of the outbreak at Harper's Ferry- the death of your two sons- the hasty trial- the merciless sentence - after your truthful nnd noble speech, and allmy inmost soul was moved with sadness; and although suffering with illness, my fir t impulse was to do something, if possible, for a grant of mercy; but I soon was foiled in that hope, and I resolved to re ort to prayer that God would overrule all for good, as He has, no doubt, and that you might be u ·tained in every conflict: which prayer has not only gone up under my roof, but from thousands of others all over the land; and those prayers have been !Icard. At any rate, from your interesting letters it seems you nrc almo t miraculously sustained in these your last days of earthly trials ; and although you sometimes may be piercc·d for a moment to be surrounded by those '\vho deride instead of those who love, yet r~joice and triumph. And I pra:se my l\1aker that he gives you grace to conquer, and at last, when that last hour comes, from which all flesh shrinks, I firmly trust that the Saviour, (when, perhaps, poor man supposes he is crushing vou with Letters frorn Northern w ornen. anguish) ·will put underneath you Iris ererlasting a11d Al · 1 A l ·r mtgt~ty rm nne h t you above all fear and l)<tnCTS and ' 'Otl .·11 · · ' . o · • < J "1 r eJ01cc and tri-ttmph; and 0 ! how glonons will be the tran ·'t' f· , • < st 10n 1om earth s cruel bondage to that Heavenly Ltberty nn<l from £ocs h . t · ones above! God grant all th1. .· · ' . · et c o sam ted loved -Is the unce · . . asmg pra3 er of many as well as your mo t smcere and sympathizing friend, U. Ii. . .. Please tell those f ellow-prisoners I pray th · . . G c eu peace may b" made w1th od. You have the kind reO'ard and ca. t . "" b an d and son. o 1 ncs prayer of l11)' hus- Dear Sir: To the accompanyin(T line from ~1 R I ld I am g1 a d you feel so well prepared0 to meet Wl.th rs. 1 · ac a word • , ~ . ca mncss and com-po~ ure your lUte. I feel assured as one in th' St . '' Tl L d . , lS ate recently ~rll cl 1e or Wlll take care of your soul and postc ··t ··ll 1 • . ' , " ' 11 Y "1 ta \.C can• of your name. lhc Lord and time will both be ri(Tht . th . 1 of men•s c h arnctcrs and motives May th L do b 111 . e JUt :":, mrnt guide and sustain. · c or c With you, and FUOl\f A MASSACHUSETTS MATRON.* .· . , MAc:sACHUSETTs, November 29. Dear Fuend: I have wnttcn to you once before but £ . 1 never reached you; and n ow I try n(•ain trus tt'n(T 1.11. th ear It ~as f C A · · 0 ' o e g~ n e ro·qty o apt. VIS. l3c of good cheer dc·lr brave old f.. d . ·n ' · ' ' ucn ; your dear on~s ," 1 be gcn~rously and lovingly cared for all the rc&t of th t·ir :~)t~~ T~;~t cv;~mg there was a crowded and rnthu~iastic ffi l'''ting . . ont lemvlc, llo._ ton, the proceed , of which were to (ro to your stncken family. Every where from all ·t, f h :-. mon · · · . ' ' P<ll s o t e country, d e! Is pounng m, m large sums and small, for the can~c your svlf-cvotwn has made acred t 11 Ch . . 1. . ' 0 a nstum hearts. I would ghdly re mqtush ten years of my t 1 1'£ ·r ' the echo of . mor a 1 e, 1 thereby you could hear C'' '211 l d 1 _the noble thmg. that were said by the noblest men in our an a t mght. I lonO'ed for win(Ts t ti t of 1'~· b 0 1 c, eauty, and eternal truth ot·t 0 d Y o you and tell the words nn d p h1.1 O !'iophcr Mr Em . bu 1 elrfe · o eloquently by thHt J>Ot>t ' · erson, m e 1a of you and )·our cause :'\ ot many eye: were d · · · d · · tl 'lt' ·o .· 1 1} ' an every body that Jwd a heart throbb,·d in · · n "1t 1 your ow G 1 · get. t , . 1 . n. oc 1R 'l'ery good, my friend. He n tvl'r for-s t :s ' ant , m our darh~st h h d we ne d '1'1 ' " . our, c sen sus the light and ::-tn·tPth e · 1onsancls of true d . . . ,.., to fill th 'd . men an '" omen Will never tnc of tn ino· Elba '1~ .VOl your death will make to the afflicted family at x~)J'th . lust me when I say we will never forget them ..•. D<.!ar, * The writer of the fil'st Iotter of this chapter. 36-J:. |