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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
been to me only a spiritual presence through life. In 1882 Mrs. Stowe writes to her son certain impressions derived from reading the Life and letters of John Quincy Adams, which are given as containing a retrospect of the stormy period of her own lifeexperience. Your father enjoys his proximity to the Boston library. He is now reading the twelve or fourteen volumes of the life and diary of John Q. Adams. It is a history of our country through all the period of slavery usurpation that led to the war. The industry of the man in writing is wonderful. Every day's doings in the house are faithfully daguerreotyped,--all the mean tricks, contrivances oo prove that freedom was bad for negroes. Records of deaf, dumb, and blind, and insane colored people were distributed in Northern States, and in places where John Q. Adams had means of proving there were no negroes. When he found that these falsified figures had been used with the English embassador as reasons for admitting Tex
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
ition sentiment, growth of, 87. Abolitionism made fashionable, 253. Adams, John Quincy, crusade of, against slavery, 509; holds floor of Congress fourteen days,ra, its history, 157; work for, 186. Negroes, petition from, presented by J. Q. Adams, 510. New England, Mrs. Stowe's knowledge of, 332; in The minister's Wooits injustice, 255; its death-blow; 370; English women's appeal against, 375; J. Q. Adams' crusade against, 509; gone forever, 506. Slaves, H. B. S.'s work for andnce on reading tour, 496; enjoys proximity to Boston Library, and Life of John Quincy Adams, 509; death, 512 and note; letters from H. B. S. to, 80, 106; on her illnon interest of herself and Prof. Stowe in life and anti-slavery career of John Quincy Adams, 509. Stowe, Eliza Tyler (Mrs. C. E.), draft of, 75: twin daughter of n letters to Mr. Stowe and letters from friends, 508; interest in Life of John Quincy Adams and his crusade against slavery, 510; death of husband, 512 and note; of