The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-10

row she protested IL acas not right
Her Grandfather, aunts and uncles tried
to pacify her, and told her he qeas only
q nigger, and even said Uncle Dick was
a bad man, but this only exasperated
her grief and anger At last they
sent tor the doctor to calm her, fearing
she might seriously injure herself BY
such fantic grief She cried herself to
sleep that night--but ever after she was
the friend and companion of the slave.
The whole plantation knew her and
how she felt Happily, her grandfather
was, as I said, kind-hearted, and always
left unfu'flle his daily threatenings of
punishment, but the neighborhood was
full of attrocious occurrences of bodily
cruelty. At home the cruelty did no.
break bones, but it broke hearts and
souls. Matte did not realize this dis
tinction in her childhood, but the slaves
in the neighborhood knowing her sym
pathy, would show her their marked aud
mangled bodies, and she would secretly
carry them grease to ease their smarting
wounds. She would also go to their
owners and pour out her childish indig-
nation, and for this impoliteness, was
punished at home hy her own relatives
1t was all in vain, however; they could
not shut her mouth, and it never was
closed until she found it made the slaves
far worse. When for this reason, she
suppressed all expression of her misery,
her health began to fail, and her friends
sent her and her sister to a convent to
be educated and out of the way of slaves.
They thought she would take different
view of the matter when older. The
first volume of Uncle Toms Cabin -
was put into her hands, and then she dc.
tcrmined to write book, for she felt as
if she knew far more of the subject than
Mrs. Stowe. She belonged to the larg.
est slaveholding clan of Kentucky
stretching into Virginia and Maryland
and after she left the convent, visited all
around to see for herself Everywhere
she found slavery intolerable, attrocious
and wholly contrary to the light of divine
love that shone in her soul She wrote
her book in secret, without an erasure
in her manuscript--but what should she
do with it? By strange accident, Mr.
Summers Kansas n Nebraska speech fel
in her way. She wrote to him that she
was young girl with six slaves, whom
she wished to emancipate, and that she
had written book. Could he tell hel
what to do next? He told her to 90
North and print the book, which she did
and the publishing of it has, of course
made her an exile from her State anc
family. Her sisters husband aband-
oned her when there were no longer
slaves to be sold for his pleasure
and because she sympathised with hel
sister But they are brave. Arrange
ments have been made by which she can
earn 81 600 this year, and this has en-.
abled her to enancipate her slaves
They have no fears of finding employ
ment. but any aid in the sale of the book
will of course help them. And she un
dertakes to support, not only herself, but
her sister and three children. Can YOU
not do something to spread the knowl
edge of her book and create demant
for it If she could afford to spread il
abroad in newspapers and magazines, il
would earn her reputation which might
help to the object Of supporting this little
family of which she feels all the respon
sibility.-Free Presbyterian.
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