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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To E. Carpenter
To E. Carpenter. West Boylston [Mass.], May 9, 1836.
Abolitionism is rapidly growing respectable here, because the abolitionists are becoming more and more numerous.
Since truth is thus made to depend on the voice of the majority, what a comfort it is to reflect that all majorities were minorities in the beginning.
I cannot forbear to repeat to you an interview between Miss Martineau and Mrs.-- , formerly a fashionable friend of mine, deeply skilled in the small diplomacy of worldly wisdom.
Mrs. said some things in disparagement of Maria Chapman, accompanied with the wise remark that women were not capable of understanding political questions.
My friend Mrs.--, wishing Miss M. to take up the cudgel in defence of the rights of women, put her mouth to her ear-trumpet, and said, Ask Mrs. To repeat her remark to you!
The lady somewhat reluctantly observed, I was saying, Miss M., that women ought to attend to their little duties, and let public affairs alone.
Believe me, Madam
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To E. Carpenter
To E. Carpenter. Northampton [Mass.], September 6, 1838.
When I remember what a remarkable testimony the early Friends bore (a testimony which seems to me more and more miraculous, the more I compare it with the spirit of the age in which they lived), I could almost find it in my heart to weep at the too palpable proofs that little now remains of that which was full of life.
This letter refers to the opposition to active anti-slavery effort manifested by the New York yearly meeting of Friends of what is called the Hicksite division.
On the Orthodox side there was the same disposition to discountenance decided abolition labors, although both societies professed to maintain a testimony against slavery. I was saying this, last winter, to George Ripley, a Unitarian minister of Boston.
He replied beautifully, Mourn not over their lifelessness.
Truly the dead form alone remains ; but the spirit that emanated from it is not dead, the word which they spake has gone out silently into
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To E. Carpenter
To E. Carpenter. March 20, 1838.
I thought of you several times while Angelina was addressing the committee of the Legislature.
Angelina Grimke, a native of South Carolina, and a member of the Society of Friends, addressed a committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on the subject of slavery in the House of Representatives, February 21, 1838, and on two subsequent days.
She and her sister Sarah left their home and came to the North to reside because of their abhorrence of slavery, and they were the first women to speak in public against the system.
Their testimonies, given from personal knowledge and experience, produced a profound impression, and large audiences gathered to listen to them wherever they went. I knew you would have enjoyed it so much.
I think it was a spectacle of the greatest moral sublimity I ever witnessed.
The house was full to overflowing.
For a moment a sense of the immense responsibility resting on her seemed almost to overwhelm her. She trembled a
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