As long as the baby sleeps with me
nights I can't do much at anything, but I will do it at last. I will
write that thing if I live.
"What are folks in general saying about the slave law, and the stand
taken by Boston ministers universally, except Edward?
"To me it is incredible, amazing, mournful!! I feel as if I should be
willing to sink with it, were all this sin and misery to sink in the
sea. . . . I wish father would come on to Boston, and preach on the
Fugitive Slave Law, as he once preached on the slave-trade, when I was
a little girl in Litchfield. I sobbed aloud in one pew and Mrs. Judge
Reeves in another. I wish some Martin Luther would arise to set this
community right."
December 22, 1850, she writes to her husband in Cincinnati: "Christmas
has passed, not without many thoughts of our absent one. If you want a
description of the scenes in our family preceding it, _vide_ a
'New Year's Story,' which I have sent to the 'New York Evangelist.' I
am sorry that in the hurry of getting off this piece and one for the
'Era' you were neglected." The piece for the "Era" was a humorous
article called "A Scholar's Adventures in the Country," being, in
fact, a picture drawn from life and embodying Professor Stowe's
efforts in the department of agriculture while in Cincinnati.
_December_ 29,1850. "We have had terrible weather here. I
remember such a storm when I was a child in Litchfield.
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