Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-09-20

or kind friends do not know where l should /
lave been now. No living being but mysefknows
he troubles and trials have passed through for
The last three years. am woman of sorrow
and acquainted with grief My health has been
growing poorer and poorer ever since my husband
went away, though ] am able to attend to my
work. wash for three students and take in
little sewing. They pay me in work again, OF let
me have orders; but cannot always get the most
needful articles with them, such as groceries and
-four. | am willing to do what can to get liv-
ing, but my family requires good deal of my
time. am troubled to get sufficiency of flour:
we live mostly on the coarse article. Perhaps you
do not know what that is:-the superfne is taken
out of the wheat and then the fine, and this that
use Is the next do not say this to complain, for
| should be glad to get enough even of that. II
have had but very little meat in my house for
good while. friend sent me few pounds of
pork the other day, which thankfully received.
] have seen the time since my husband went away
that l would have been glad of bran to make
bread of. 1t has got to be old story, his being
in prison. There is but little said or done about
lent about it. You wish me to tell you what will
make my family comfortable. 1t is hard for Inc to
tell. have learned to get along with little. My
master knows what we need and has sent me help
more than once when | was ready to despair.
must trust in the Lord for supply (for he is kind
and your kindness shows it) for the remainder
of the summer and the coming fall and winter
You may think look great ways ahead do
not know as shall live till that time, but remem-
Der the ,cinters that gone By, and what we suf
fered. can bear cold and hunger much better
than can see my children bear it. Many a time
have we shivered over a few embers, and have
waded through the snow Cor wood and to take care
of my cow, till my clothes have been frozen near
a quarter of yard deep. Many time last win
ter did travel miles through the snow to find my
COW. For the want of food she wandered off, and
do not know but she will have to do the same
the coming winter. You may think tell you a
great deal, but the one half have not told YOU
If the friends can spare bed clothing, or winter
clothes shoes, any such thing, or clothing of
any kind, should be very glad, for think could
exchange some of them for food, and some of them
want. know money is very scarce One oft the
teachers here has gone east, and heard that him
self or his agent was going to Vermont to get
Something if he could, for the institution here. If
you and the friends could, without robbing your
selves, send me a small box by this man, think
the Lord will reward you. 1t is great favor to
ask, and will not urge it. If you should see fit
to send box, will you put in a paper containing
the names of the donors. 1t would lie a comfort tc
me to read them over.
| am glad to hear you speak SO much about
Freedom. lfyou was as near slave State as
am, you would want to giue in t,Oo uotes TO man
live two miles from the Mississippi river, which
divides Illinois from Missouri. have four chill
dren. have buried one since my husband wen
to prison. have little son added to my famil,
since he went away. His name is Alanson. HI
is in his third year. People that come here ash
him where his father is. He tells them he is il
the penetencia They ask him what they shall dc
to the men that put him there. He says, pa
them about The penting of SINS: that u.s. pray abou
their repenting of their sins | think my HUSBAND
being taken, was the cause of my little girls death
She would lie in her cradle from morning til
night and call for her father, till she pinned ava,
and died. The day but one before she died sh
called for paper, and said she wanted to write t.
father. The night before she died, Il was watch
ing with her--it was past midnight-no one in tn
house but my children, and they asleep. 1t was
very cold night, and had no wood cut for fire
and was shaking with the cold,) she went into
fit, and held her in my arms, should think, tie
minutes that she did not breathe awaked m,
eldest child and sent for neighbor. She did no
breathe when the height came. After she hat
been here while, Ellen came partly out of tn
fit, and went into another, which she never cam
out of. o! I thought if my husband had bee
here at the time, what would | have given! Blu
. no it could not be. There is world which w
are looking forward to. where sorrowing and sigh
! ing will be done away, and where the wicked viii
cease from troubling and the weary be at rest
RI Perhaps you have not been called to wade throug
the furnace of affection; but with me, sometime
think it has been heated one seven times hottie
than before. But the Lords will, not mine, b
done.
My husband wishes me to go into Missouri an
circulate petitions have already been thre
D times, and exposed life and health, and am Wi
ling to do it again if can get him released; br
my faith is very weak Kind sir, pray for me an
i mine.
s Yours Truly,