The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-26
LBTTER PROM aLAsTonRnRY.


Two of your papers, October s and
October Is, have failed to reach me.
Will you send them on? We had
thought perhaps you had stopped pub
fishing for a while, or that you had for
gotten us, as you have not mentioned
our case for So long. But our town has
never forgotten that the laws of the
land permit them to take our property
when they please, and as much as they
please. In their eagerness to get it,
they have not complied with some of
their own laws, which we have taken
advantage of, and therefore they have
not, as yet, succeeded in their doings il
any way, to their satisfaction. We
have now three cases i'm the Hartford
courts, which we expected to come on
this fall, but they are trying every way
to put them off, and are so silent about
them that few of the people of the town
have ever heard of them; even some of
their own officers have not, the whole
business being done by very few.
Some twenty-five years ago, when
our sisters were all living There were
five of US them, and one friend, making
six in all, we became much engaged in
finding out the literal meaning of every
word of the Bible, believing it to be the
word of our Maker. My sister Julia,
who is now left with me, having be-
come somewhat versed in Latin and
Greek while at school, undertook to put
down the English word for every Greek
word in the New Testament, and but
one meaning to the Greek word, the
same meaning everywhere four trans
lators have many in different places)
without regarding the sense at all, but
it did make sense, with which we were
all so well pleased that she went on to
translate the Septuagint, the Greek
copy of the Old Testament, in the same
way. This is an older copy than the
Hebrew. And then, at the suggestion
of learned friend, she studied Hebrew,
to find out the meaning of the proper
names, this friend saying to her she
would then be able to see with her own
eyes, and not through the glasses of her
neighbors, for the Bible is the only
book written in pure Hebrew extant.
After she had finished that she wrote
out the Latin Vulgate-the Catholic
Bible in the same way. She then wrote
out again the whole Bible, both from
the Greek and Hebrew text, for her own
satisfaction, making five times she has
written that book, throughout, without
assistance. These three languages were
written over the head of our Savior;
none other are so perfect in their con-
struction, and they are now dead Ian
guages, and can therefore never be al
tered. Last July, after the towns
shameful treatment of US, 1 told my sis
ter I would publish the copy of the
Hebrew Bible with the Greek New
Testament, for thought it would help
the suffrage cause more than anything
else could do, being what no man has
ever done. Everybody fears knowl-
edge, and perhaps our town and State
would not use us SO badly. We have in
Hartford banks more than sufficient
money to do it with, and this makes
half our taxes, which we might save in
that way. This work is now in the
press of the Hartford Publishing Com
pany, but as it is great work, it can
not come out till April next. The en-
gagement is 1000 copies for $4,000.
Judging by the orders that have come
in already, we think it will more than
pay for itself if we order another edi-
tion. But money is not our object.
1t is most astonishing thing that
this nation should intend to hold a
grand jubilee to honor and glorify what
our rulers have never practiced, for at
the time our forefathers founded this
government, on the principle that "all
men were created free and equal" they
were themselves holding slaves in the
worst kind of bondage, and since, for 100
years, they have been doing to half the
inhabitants of the land much worse
than the government of Great Britain
ever did them, taking the property of
half the people, their nearest relations,
at that, without their consent" and
allowing them no representation, the
very thing they themselves rebelled
against, and to Danish which our fathers
and mothers endured the horrors and
hardships of seven years war. Is it
any worse to take a MANS property
without his consent than it is to take a
woman's property without her consent?
Is it worse to rob a man than it is to
rob a woman? ABBY H. SMITH.
Glastonbury, Ct, November 5, 1875.
The following order, announcing the
1aafh of tha Uioo