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 their lives."
Although the new-comers were cordially welcomed in Cincinnati, and
everything possible was done for their comfort and to make them feel
at home, they felt themselves 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 first letter they
received from Hartford after leaving there:--
My dear Sister (Mary),--The 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 a time up to the study to
begin an answer.
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