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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw . (search)
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. Wayland, 1856.
The outrage upon Charles Sumner made me literally ill for several days.
It brought on nervous headache and painful suffocations about the heart.
If I could only have done something, it would have loosened that tight ligature that seemed to stop the flowing of my blood.
But I never was one who knew how to serve the Lord by standing and waiting; and to stand and wait then!
It almost drove me mad. And that miserable Faneuil Hall meeting!
The time-serving Mr.-- talking about his friend Sumner's being a man that hit hard!
making the people laugh at his own witticisms, when a volcano was seething beneath their feet!
poisoning the well-spring of popular indignation, which was rising in its might!
Mr. A., on the eve of departing for Europe, wrote to me, The North will not really do anything to maintain their own dignity.
See if they do!
I am willing to go abroad, to find some relief from the mental pain that the course of public affairs in thi
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), List of Mrs. Child 's works, with the date of their first publication as far as ascertained. (search)