. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ,i„,iimiliiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiui;, iiiiiiimiiimiiimiiimmiiiiiiiuniumi uuiuiiiiiiiii mill LYDIA MAEIA CHILD. AUTHOR OF an APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED EXT to Harriet Beeclier Stowe, no woman, perhaps, has contributedmore to the liberation of the black man than has the subject of thissketch. It was Lydia Maria Child who wrote the famous reply toGovernor AVise, of Virginia, after the hanging of Joh
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ,i„,iimiliiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiui;, iiiiiiimiiimiiimiiimmiiiiiiiuniumi uuiuiiiiiiiii mill LYDIA MAEIA CHILD. AUTHOR OF an APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED EXT to Harriet Beeclier Stowe, no woman, perhaps, has contributedmore to the liberation of the black man than has the subject of thissketch. It was Lydia Maria Child who wrote the famous reply toGovernor AVise, of Virginia, after the hanging of John Brown, andit was to her that the wife of the Senator from Massachusetts, theauthor of the Fugitive Slave Law, wrote, threatening her withfuture damnation for her activity against the operation of that law. Mrs. Childsreply to Governor Wise, of Virginia, and Mrs. Mason was published with theirletters in pamphlet form, and three hundred thousand copies were quickly distri-buted throughout the North. On the altars of how many thousand hearts theykindled the fires of universal liberty of person can never be known; but it is certainthat after the appearance of this pamphlet, and Mrs. Stowes immortal book, the fateof slavery in the United States was sealed, and the rising star of the black manslibertv and the setting sun of the accursed institut
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