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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Introduction. (search)
losely allied in our sorrows and limitations, in our aspirations and hopes, surely we ought not to be separated in our sympathies. However various the names by which we call the Heavenly Father, if they are set to music by brotherly love, they can all be sung together. Her interest in the welfare of the emancipated class at the South and of the ill-fated Indians of the West remained unabated, and she watched with great satisfaction the experiment of the education of both classes in General Armstrong's institution at Hampton, Va. She omitted no opportunity of aiding the greatest social reform of the age, which aims to make the civil and political rights of woman equal to those of men. Her sympathies, to the last, went out instinctively to the wronged and weak. She used to excuse her vehemence in this respect by laughingly quoting lines from a poem entitled The under dog in the fight -- I know that the world, the great big world, Will never a moment stop To see which dog may be in
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
mpressed me very favorably, not only because it was uncommonly well written, but especially because he wrote: Don't beg for me at the North, my good friend. I will go to work and try again. I want to row my own boat. I sent the letter to General Armstrong, and asked that the Osgood scholarship might be bestowed upon him. That would defray the expense of his education, and if he was unable to pay for board, necessary books, etc., I agreed to be responsible therefor; with the request that he ms unable to pay for board, necessary books, etc., I agreed to be responsible therefor; with the request that he might not know there was any one to help him row his boat. A few days ago I had a letter from General Armstrong, in which he says: Forsyth is an uncommonly intelligent, sensible, and every way satisfactory pupil; and I have no doubt he will make a good record of himself hereafter. That had a very happyfying influence. I have so often been unsuccessful in my efforts to help others.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
ish governess at the Siamese Court, 210. Animals, the treatment of, 214. Anti-Slavery Society (Mass.), annual meeting of, mobbed, 148-150. Appeal in behalf of that Class of Americans called Africans, by Mrs. Child, IX., 48, 195. Armstrong, General, and Hampton Institute, 241. Arnold, Edwin, 257. Aspirations of the world, by Mrs, Child, XIX., 246. Aurora Leigh, by Mrs. Browning, 87, 197. Autobiography of a female slave, 90, 132. B. Banneker, Benjamin, 184. Beecher, Heraphy of a female slave, 90, 132. Grimke, Angelina, addresses a committee of the 1;Massachusetts Legislature, 26; her testimony against slavery, 130. Grimke, Sarah M., her testimony against slavery, 129. H. Hampton Institute and General Armstrong, 241. Hedrick. Professor, expelled from North Carolina, 108. Henry the Eighth and the Protestant reformation, 187. Heyrick, Elizabeth, promulgates the doctrine of Immediate Emancipation, 23. Higginson, T. W., his biographical a