Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-11-24

letter from u Recent Convert to Free.
Love.
Ho,o Abigail Moses learned phat her "innard
nature required, and that Hiram Moses, her
husband, acas a BooJy.
From the New York Evening Post
IraiIy baint minute of time, dear neighbor
Mrs. Baldwin, to devote to nobody, but | do
reckon I'd better jest let you know somethin'
| about this here society of Associationers I'm
contemplatin' jonin.' Afore begin I'd like
| to menshun that if you'd just step in and see
to husbands stockins I'd take it agreeable.
| hadn't no time to mend 'em, for Professor X
had such heap to tell me about the nnard
development, and of his spiritual coalition with
my spiritual witals, that sat good bit longer
than | meant to, with him; an somehow or
other he ketched hold of my hand an said he
didn't know when he'd been so monstrously
drawed to anybody afore. He hadn't nothin'
to say agin my husband; he might be a very
clever person; but yet he felt convinced my ma
tur was sch an elevated one, he rally believed
my wants hadn't never been met.
told him sure enough they hadn't, but ]
reckoned the reason was, we were too pO~r to
60 to further expense in buyn' things. But
did confess, if there was want had, it was
for new parlor carpet, ourn was gittin' SO
dreadfully shabby. The Professor give me an
awful nudge then. and said must excuse him,
if he didn't feel disposed for jokin' that morn.
in; he was a suferin' most tremendous innard
tortures, cause he'd been misunderstood the
day afore by person who wasn't great
enough to comprehend him. OF course | let
on understood him, and pretended I'd been
SrI.1 lint efn I'd sr,ha To kko
meetin,' found out all about what il meant;
and I'm real miserable, neighbor Baldwin, to
think I've been livn' these sixteen years with
Hiram Moses, an he's never yet comprehend
ed what my natur' required.
know my hull bein' aint called into play;
there's only one set of faculties agon, an |
might as well be livin' mummy as to be ma.
ted with such noodle. Brother Be ses
he's convinced me and him has sch sympathy
fur one another that we must have played to.
gether when we was children in some other
state Of existence, an though don't remem-
Der ever ben' in that state, yet 'spose it's all
Just so. Brother Re is very spiritual
soul, and is jest as developed as he can be.
Me and him has sch good times together, and
sich beautiful attraction to one another, that |
we don't think no more of kissn' than if we
was two females. He sed need mt tell Hir- |
am, though, forit wasn't likely he'd understand |
how our spirits met, an he was one of those I
bein's who might 60 and kick
up rumpus about me kissin' another wo-
mans husband.
do declare it's too bad to be forced into
sich a position as am with Hiram, but Dr..
C-s ses that's just the way with him an
lis wife; she haint no undertsandin' of the
deal beauty Of sich friendships, and don't begin
o fill up the measure of his souls vearning
lfter perfection. Poor fellow! he's often cast
,ack upon himself that it's enough to crush
lis too sensitive natur. The meetins on
Thursday nights is all the comfort have
There's been Professor K-h. an S-m
s-t, an Dr.. E-y, an Mr.. HIS, that's
II situated in the same uncomfortable way
. their domestic relations, besides several
emales that's studyin' medicine and 'natomy
Q hard that they partake quite Of the natur Of
keletons. Their souls is developed at the ex-
ense of their poor frail, perishable bodies.
E-B-m dop't think no more Of dis
ectin' dead bodies than she would of cuttin' up
roast chicken. / don't know a. I'd trust her
0 treat my neurology, but Hiram might jest
) well employ the poor thing for his rheuma-
z as not. She looks as though she might
andle right grippin' case pretty severe
ut the best is the principles we purfess. There
. sit the hull evenin' and jest discourse about
le poor oppressed creatures that have to git
,eir lvin' q. shovelIin' snow an handIin' wood
A. so on. It would rally DO your very mar
w bones good to see the benevoIence an
rarity that prevails; an how they remarks,
'ey don't want nobody to,do nothin' that don't
,ree with 'em-an' I'm sure mendin' stockings
on't agree with me. /,
An they tell sich lovely anecdotes about the (
.ople who 70 an git everything done as cheap
J they can, 80 as to cheat folks an grind down
e poor. And then besides all this active
oodness an strugglin' to redeem their feller