Did
I not believe that "an excellent spirit" is in you, I would not take
the trouble to write all this. If in any points in this note I appear
to have misapprehended or done you injustice, I hope you will candidly
let me know where and how.
Truly your friend,
H. B. STOWE.
[Illustration: Lyman Beecher]
In addition to these letters the following extracts from a subsequent
letter to Mr. Garrison are given to show in what respect their fields
of labor differed, and to present an idea of what Mrs. Stowe was doing
for the cause of freedom besides writing against slavery:--
ANDOVER, MASS., _February_ 18,1854.
DEAR FRIEND,--I see and sincerely rejoice in the result of your
lecture in New York. I am increasingly anxious that all who hate
slavery be united, if not in form, at least in fact,--a unity in
difference. _Our_ field lies in the church, and as yet I differ
from you as to what may be done and hoped there. Brother Edward
(Beecher) has written a sermon that goes to the very root of the
decline of moral feeling in the church. As soon as it can be got ready
for the press I shall have it printed, and shall send a copy to every
minister in the country.
Our lectures have been somewhat embarrassed by a pressure of new
business brought upon us by the urgency of the Kansas-Nebraska
question. Since we began, however, brother Edward has devoted his
whole time to visiting, consultation, and efforts the result of which
will shortly be given to the public.
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