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Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
g of 1832, but he was not ready to remove his family until October of that year. An interesting account of this westward journey is given by Mrs. Stowe in a letter sent back to Hartford from Cincinnati, as follows:-- Well, my dear, the great sheet is out and the letter is begun. All our family are here (in New York), and in good health. Father is to perform to-night in the Chatham Theatre! positively for the last time this season! I don't know, I'm sure, as we shall ever get to Pittsburgh. Father is staying here begging money for the Biblical Literature professorship; the incumbent is to be C. Stowe. Last night we had a call from Arthur Tappan and Mr. Eastman. Father begged $2,000 yesterday, and now the good people are praying him to abide certain days, as he succeeds so well. They are talking of sending us off and keeping him here. I really dare not go and see Aunt Esther and mother now; they were in the depths of tribulation before at staying so long, and now, In
Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
duation of her favorite brother, Henry Ward, from Amherst College. The earlier part of this journey was performed by means of stage to Toledo, and thence by steamer to Buffalo. A pleasant bit of personal description, and also of impressions of Niagara, seen for the first time on this journey, are given in a letter sent back to Cincinnati during its progress. In it she says of her fellow-travelers:-- Then there was a portly, rosy, clever Mr. Smith, or Jones, or something the like; and a all the philanthropy of our friend was roused, and he sprung up all lively and oratorical and gesticulatory and indignant to my heart's content. I like to see a quiet man that can be roused. In the same letter she gives her impressions of Niagara, as follows:-- I have seen it (Niagara) and yet live. Oh, where is your soul? Never mind, though. Let me tell, if I can, what is unutterable. Elisabeth, it is not like anything; it did not look like anything I expected; it did not look
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
peak; recess-bell, etc., etc. You are tired, I see, says Gilpin, so am I, and I spare you. I have just been hearing a class of little girls recite, and telling them a fairy story which I had to spin out as it went along, beginning with once upon a time there was, etc., in the good old-fashioned way of stories. Recently I have been reading the life of Madame de Stael and Corinne. I have felt an intense sympathy with many parts of that book, with many parts of her character. But in America feelings vehement and absorbing like hers become still more deep, morbid, and impassioned by the constant habits of selfgovernment which the rigid forms of our society demand. They are repressed, and they burn inward till they burn the very soul, leaving only dust and ashes. It seems to me the intensity with which my mind has thought and felt on every subject presented to it has had this effect. It has withered and exhausted it, and though young I have no sympathy with the feelings of yo
Wheeling, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
o each other, and are wide and well paved. We reached here in three days from Wheeling, and soon felt ourselves at home. The next day father and I, with three gentlo-morrow we expect to travel sixty-two miles, and in two more days shall reach Wheeling; there we shall take the steamboat to Cincinnati. On the same journey Geor horses in crossing the mountains. Our average rate for the last four days to Wheeling was forty-four miles. The journey, which takes the mail-stage forty-eight hours, took us eight days. At Wheeling we deliberated long whether to go on board a boat for Cincinnati, but the prevalence of the cholera there at last decided us to remain. While at Wheeling father preached eleven times,--nearly every evening, -and gave them the Taylorite heresy on sin and decrees to the highest notch; and what am since it had not been christened heresy in their hearing. After remaining in Wheeling eight days, we chartered a stage for Cincinnati, and started next morning.
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
it provided that Dr. Beecher accepted the presidency. It was hard for this New England family to sever the ties of a lifetime and, enter on so long a journey to thh those ladies we shall have the most to do with, and find them intelligent, New England sort of folks. Indeed, this is a New England city in all its habits, and its inhabitants are more than half from New England. The Second Church, which is the best in the city, will give father a unanimous call to be their minister, with thves to be strangers in a strange land. Their homesickness and yearnings for New England are set forth by the following extracts from Mrs. Stowe's answer to the firs my needle and sit down to be sociable. You don't know how coming away from New England has sentimentalized us all! Never was there such an abundance of meditationof 1834 the young teacher and writer made her first visit East since leaving New England two years before. Its object was mainly to be present at the graduation of
Granville, O. (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ather preached eleven times,--nearly every evening, -and gave them the Taylorite heresy on sin and decrees to the highest notch; and what amused me most was to hear him establish it from the Confession of Faith. It went high and dry, however, above all objections, and they were delighted with it, even the old school men, since it had not been christened heresy in their hearing. After remaining in Wheeling eight days, we chartered a stage for Cincinnati, and started next morning. At Granville, Ohio, we were invited to stop and attend a protracted meeting. Being in no great hurry to enter Cincinnati till the cholera had left, we consented. We spent the remainder of the week there, and I preached five times and father four. The interest was increasingly deep and solemn each day, and when we left there were forty-five cases of conversion in the town, besides those from the surrounding towns. The people were astonished at the doctrine; said they never saw the truth so plain in the
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
llege plan, with a faculty of instructors. As all these things are treated at length in letters written by Mrs. Stowe to her friend, Miss Georgiana May, we cannot do better than turn to them. In May, 1833, she writes:-- Bishop Purcell visited our school to-day and expressed himself as greatly pleased that we had opened such an one here. He spoke of my poor little geography, This geography was begun by Mrs. Stowe during the summer of 1832, while visiting her brother William at Newport, R. I. It was completed during the winter of 1833, and published by the firm of Corey, Fairbank & Webster, of Cincinnati. and thanked me for the unprejudiced manner in which I had handled the Catholic question in it. I was of course flattered that he should have known anything of the book. How I wish you could see Walnut Hills. It is about two miles from the city, and the road to it is as picturesque as you can imagine a road to be without springs that run among the hills. Every possible v
Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
that negroes were black, used it as an irrefragible argument to all that could be said, and at last began to deduce from it that they might just as well be slaves as anything else, and so he proceeded till all the philanthropy of our friend was roused, and he sprung up all lively and oratorical and gesticulatory and indignant to my heart's content. I like to see a quiet man that can be roused. In the same letter she gives her impressions of Niagara, as follows:-- I have seen it (Niagara) and yet live. Oh, where is your soul? Never mind, though. Let me tell, if I can, what is unutterable. Elisabeth, it is not like anything; it did not look like anything I expected; it did not look like a waterfall. I did not once think whether it was high or low; whether it roared or did n't roar; whether it equaled my expectations or not. My mind whirled off, it seemed to me, in a new, strange world. It seemed unearthly, like the strange, dim images in the Revelation. I thought of t
Vistula (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
d we must have exemplary success to be believed. We want original, planning minds, and you do not know how few there are among females, and how few we can command of those that exist. During the summer of 1834 the young teacher and writer made her first visit East since leaving New England two years before. Its object was mainly to be present at the graduation of her favorite brother, Henry Ward, from Amherst College. The earlier part of this journey was performed by means of stage to Toledo, and thence by steamer to Buffalo. A pleasant bit of personal description, and also of impressions of Niagara, seen for the first time on this journey, are given in a letter sent back to Cincinnati during its progress. In it she says of her fellow-travelers:-- Then there was a portly, rosy, clever Mr. Smith, or Jones, or something the like; and a New Orleans girl looking like distraction, as far as dress is concerned, but with the prettiest language and softest intonations in the worl
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
be passed. At this time her sister Mary was married and living in Hartford, her brothers Henry Ward and Charles were in college, while Willis westward journey is given by Mrs. Stowe in a letter sent back to Hartford from Cincinnati, as follows:-- Well, my dear, the great sheetts from Mrs. Stowe's answer to the first letter they received from Hartford after leaving there :-- My dear Sister (Mary),--The Hartford Hartford letter from all and sundry has just arrived, and after cutting all manner of capers expressive of thankfulness, I have skipped three stairs at know how anxiously we all have watched for some intelligence from Hartford. Not a day has passed when I have not been the efficient agent inface now! And then those well known handwritings! We do love our Hartford friends dearly; there can be, I think, no controverting that fact.e afternoon, and then I held up my letter. See here, this is from Hartford! I wish you could have seen Aunt Esther's eyes brighten, and moth
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