The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-01-12

Ma34 A00 nay luhuAh1 InlA me IN love
to yoR Nothing more, bus ! remain,
Nour daughter,
ElnAHerH Smm
June 27th another letter says it
gives me much pleasure 10 bear from
you and ia hnd that you are in the en-
ioymeHt ot health and that you are SO
comfortably situated IN your cid age,
1 hope il viii not prevent your making
US visit, as soon as you can make it
convenient You wished 20 know about
yonr people Your sister Maria has
been dead about eleven years, your sis-
ten Lucy is we'll An the old Deaoons
that you left here are dead brothers
Holloway, Walker, Wilcox. Lewcy, Coy
and Guvens
The times are very hard here, as rent
is very high. Enclosed you will find
the photographs Of my two dasg g,ltdfs,
the eldest is named Lucinda, and the
youngest Mary Ann, after my mother.
As | am not acquainted with your
daughter, cannot say much to her,
but viii you please TO give my love to
her, and tell her, although we are at
present strangers, hope we may be-
come acquainted, as am anxious to
see her viii you please to write mo
her name, as may write her
Jaly 28th.--This leaves me and mine
Wen, and / hope it may find you aud
yours we'll Your mother has been
dead about fourteen years. l have
nothing new to tell, as news is dull, and
it looks gloomy prospects not very
bright, as every thing is dear
August oath. 1T gave me much pleas
ure to hear from you again, and hope
that at the reception Of this It may find
you all well. You wished to know
about Martha and Lucinda, former
daughters They have been sold away
for over twenty years. The Guildfeld
church is in prosperous condition.
The Lord has blessed us this summer
with large revival. / have been con
yerted fifteen years, and my Oldest
daughter has been professor six years.
The letter concludes with messages Of
love from various friends to himself and
his northern daughter, Mary, with a
desire to hear from him soon.
Two years after Mr.. White commen-
eed living in Manchester, he married a
widow Of noted copability. She died
in 1860, and their daughter, then near
maturity, las followed her mothers ex-
ample in rendering him in every way
comfortable, and aiding him to secnre
a pleasant home Of their own.
He was asked Jew days since, wheth-
er he would 20 to Virginia and visit has
remaining children there. Ho replied
perhaps So, but not would wait
for the copperheads to get cooler"
The story Of Frederic Douglass in
Mrs Stoves new book was read to him,
to which he listened with intense inter-
est, remarking, he could confirm from
his own experience ali the statements
there made regarding the food Of the
yonng slave children at the plantation,
and the manner in which they are fed,
from troughs, dc.
His father, whose name was his own,
iu his earlier life was the body servant
of Col Cyrus Branch, while an officer in
the revolutionary war Afterwards lie
purchased his freedom Of his master, by
the payment Of 500 and retained his
name This purchase not being duly
registered, he was attached and sold,
after Col Branch's death, for debt due
the estate Of 5000. But by bis untiring
industry he again earned the means Of
cxtricating himself from the yoke Of
slavery, at cost Of $1,000 These
facts, together with the disappearance
ofa young and beautiful daughter,wh
John was promised should never be
sold, wrought in his breast such an alb
horence Of slavery, and such a sense Of
its utter injustice in every form, that
life TO him as a slave was not life, what
ever other dear ties would have held
HIM on his native soil He was dili-
gently sought for two whole years after
he had made his escape, bis owner
sending once TO New York TO ascertain
il be had fed there, and spending
sum equal TO his estimated value to se-
cure, II possible, possession 81 tim again.
But be was held "in the Hollow of Je-
Lorah's hand, as II it had been said 10
him II am with thee. and 10 maa sa..i
SET on thee to hurt thee. Eaw
Manchester Dec 20 1904
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The sign boards on the Union Ia.
cifc Railroad are said to be Look out
for the iniuns.
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