Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-09-08
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LETTER FROM OTTAWA.
OrrAwA CREEK, Angus, 3, 1855.
Mn. EpiruR Il thought had 60 much to
du extendin' the ''srea of human freedom"
down here on the Ottawa, that ! couldn't pos
sibly write Communications for the Herald
But, dear me, what changablo critters we arc
how mighty small thing turns US right-abont
face, when it hits right When got the sec
ond number of the Herald, directed to me BOX
1872, and read the glorious speech of Thomas
ii. Ford, of Ohio, at the Philadelphia *. N.
Conventional say, when had read it out loud
10 Jacob, and laughed and cried over it with
him, began to thinKl'd find time to tell you
how il does our old hearts good to hear the
eastern breezes givin' oui sich tones as those.
All, Mr.. EdiiuI, when Jacob and left our
old home in Vermont, and slakcd out claim
IN this Territory, we didn't know how seldom
we would get the news of the true and fas, friends
of freedom at the East We didn't think of
going beyond Lawrence Post office so far that
we must wait three weeks fur a chance to get
and send letters and papers. But we are to
have our mails brought weekly hereafter, and
that makes US feel a good deal nearer our old
friends, for we can hear from them with mo-
raj certainty Of getting return in given time.
Mr.. Eduur, know your paper is taken by
great many OF my acqualntances, and would
like "mghty well'' to say cheap of things
TO them, but | a Mt in philosophical mood just
now, and my "dgni,y" is sip-shod so | just
beihought me that, as used to write for the
Brallleburg Democrat and have good many
intimate friends there, who knows my style and
will recognise my signaiure-l could write you
in my slip-shod, "old wife" character, and the
hot weather wouldn't Spite it for them, if they
don't see it till ''dog days" are over.
My friends East are main anxious to hear
how we live out here, aud they write US SIGH
pityin' letters that we nldlecmeiimes after read
in 'em like the client, who cried to hear his
counsel plead his case and said he "didn't
know before how much he had suffered" Well,
il our friends would send us words of good cheer
instead of telling us how unhappy our absence
makes em, it would make us glad to receive
their letters. Ii is a fact, come to look it all
over, that the greatest sufIGrin for US pioneers
Is aller all in the friends we have left We
aint like to starve, and we have better appeites
than we brought from the East with US. II
our eastern friends could only see Jacob and the
boys stowe away the bacon and Johnny-cake
and milk, they'd think the cooks in Kansas a
hard-worked class, and expect we'd be voiin,
for slaves to du our work insied of runnn' bull
lets and sendn the boys-with Johnny-cake
lunch in their pockets-to Palmyra, to keep
the Missourians from burning down the town.
BY the way, Mr. Ediiur, if the Missourans
would come and live among US, we reckon there
wouldn't be any fghin'. We have several
Missouri neighbors, and they are right peacea-
BILE people. We wish we had more of 'em. -
For, as tell Jacob, the very air Of Kansas
smells of feedom; and nobody can breathe it
long and curse the Yankees because they love
it and have brought it with them from Ticonde.
roga and Bunker Hill.
But this want what took my pen to write
about. I've been thinking Of the progressive
women" of the East, and so longed to see some
thing from their pens. For Mr. Editur, do you
know I'm thinking that they have almost forgot
"wimin's rights" since mems rights are agin
TO be fought for in this republican country
Our old Revolutionary mothers-Heayen re-
member 'em-had pretty much sich rights as
we wimin Of Kansas have-the right TO bake
johnny-cakes and help the men folks build log
cabins, and fight for EN-.
Nobody out hero knows anything about irinl-
ms rights. The men here wouldn't have any
arguments like our eastern opponents-that "the
women want the right to work out doors'-we
all do that Nth their oonSent-"to turn soldiers
they'd make ammunition of us--"driye cattle
cut wood"-,hese are feminine employment in
Il new Territory-and the like.
No, no, Mr.. Editur, the women of Kansas
feels that slavery threatens their rights when i,
would parade degraded, beastly womanhood
TO be trampled beneath the contempt Of theii
husbands, sons and brothers. Our tights will
never be won and secured while slavery tralnples
upon our black sisters. | tell Jacob, however
that as for the legal rights of white women, I'd
sooner trust the Missourians than men of Mas
sachuseiis and Vermont; for thus far the "chiv-
airy OF Missouri has legislated better for mar.
ried women and widows than have the ''jastiee-
loving" men Of those States.
But my sheet is full, and | don't know as you
can make out what ! have rit. My spectacles
that brought from the Fast don't suit my eyes
right well, and I've used my hands so hard
doin' all sorts of things that can't get over the
paper as fast a must to say what want to
and write handsum hand as used TO. Your,
for Kansas ill write agin.
DEBORAH VAN WRINKLE.