Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe _

n Cincinnati.-Birth of Twin Daughters.-Professor Stowe's Return and Visit to Columbus.-Dom

before her wedding, was not completed until nearly two mont

our marriage we took a wedding excursion, so called, though we would most gladly have been excused this conformity to ordinary custom had not necessity required Mr. Stowe to visit Columbus, and I had too much adhesiveness no

dear, it is a wonder to myself. I am tranquil, quiet, and happy. I look only on the present, and leave the future with Him who has hitherto been so kind to me. 'Tak

return to. Well, so it shall be no longer. In about five weeks Mr. Stowe and myself start for New England. He sails the first of May. I am going with

ne of the founders in Cincinnati of "The College of Teachers," an institution that existed for ten years, and exerted a widespread influence. Its objects were to popularize the common schools, raise the standard of teachers, and create a demand for education among the people. Professor Stowe was associated in this movement with many of the leading intellects of Ohio at that tim

, on June 8, 1836, and carried with him, to be opened only after he was a

digo,' as Elisabeth calls it, in any way or shape. Keep yourself from it most scrupulously, and though you are unprovided with that precious and savory treatise entitled 'Kemper's Consolations,'[2] yet you can exercise yourself to recall and set in order such parts thereof as would more particularly suit your case, particular

ngs, fine churches, and, above all, think of seeing Tholuck, your great Apollo

ation in the "Western Monthly Magazine" or the "New York Evangelist," and maintained a constant correspondence with her husband by means of a daily journal, which was forward

While thus engaged he had been so impressed with the evils and horrors of slavery that he had become a radical abolitionist, and had succeeded in converting several Southerners to his views of the subject. Among them was Mr. J. G. Birney of Huntsville, Alabama, who not only liberated his slaves, but

'Birney's printing-press has been mobbed, and many of the respectable citizens are dispo

ention to a long editorial of Henry's in which he considers the subject fully and seriously. His piece is, I think, a powerful one; indeed, he does write very strongly. I am quite proud of his editorials; they are well

ur principles in your absence, and wanted you to see how manfully I talked about it. Henry h

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the demand, and twelve of his boarders immediately left, Dr. F. among the number. A meeting has been convoked by means of a handbill, in which some of the most respectable men of the city are invited by name to come together

im that he would have nothing to do with disorderly public meetings or

have a hot meeting, i

mon to his church, for many of its members

ir acts. The mob madness is certainly upon this city when men of sense and standing will pass resolutions approving in so many words of things done

Dr. Fore has been exceedingly violent. Mr. Hammond (editor of the 'Gazette') in a very dignified and judicious manner has condemned the whole thin

stand his ground and assert his rights. The office is fire-proof, and inclosed by high walls. I wish he would man it with armed men and see what can be done. If I were a man I

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forgot that mobs were worse evils than these, talked against Birney, and winked at the outrage; N. Wright and Judge Burnet, for example. Meanwhile the turbulent spirits went beyond this and talked of revolution and of righting things without law that could not be righted by it. A

meant to put down Birney, but rather hoped to do it without a mob; those who felt ashamed to go, foreseeing the

re specimens; and in the last such men as Hammond, Mansfield, S. P. Chase,[3] and Chester were prominent. The meeting in so many words voted a mob, nevertheless a committee was appoin

openly 'mobocratic.' As might have been expected, Birney refused to leave, and that night the mob tore down his p

and was heard to say, 'Well, lads, you have done well, so far; go home now before you disgrace yourselves;' but the 'lads' spent the rest of the night and a greater part of the next day (Sunday) in pulling down the ho

ganized, who for three nights patrolled the streets with firearms and with legal warrant f

, and we really saw Henry depart with his pistols with daily alarm, only we were all too full of patriotism

eeting, with the names of those who got it up, throwing on them and on those who had acted on the committee the whole responsibility of the following mob. It makes a terrible sensation, but it 'cuts its way,' and all who took other stand than that of steady opposition from the first are beginning to feel the reaction of public sentiment, while newspapers from abroad are pouring in their reprehensions of the disgraceful conduct of Cincinnati. Another time, I sus

, for what was very irresolute and

her sympathies, she was not a declared abolitionist. This is still further borne out in a letter written

takes a leading part in the female society in this place yesterday called

nything that has been attempted, though I am glad to se

nthropist.' Abolitionism being the fashion

. If not, as light increases, all the excesses of the abolition pa

this subject? No one can have the system of slavery brought before him with

Eliza Tyler and Harriet Beecher, as her husband insisted they should be called, when, upon reaching New York, he was greeted by the joyful news. His trip f

relieve her from domestic cares, she was sent to make a long visit at Putnam with her brother

hall treat them with merited contempt. This alliance between the old school (Presbyteri

nded educational report that he had devoted the summer to

luded that I read it in Dr. Hodges' church on two evenings, to-morrow and the day after, before both houses of the legislature and the citizens. The governor (Vance) will preside at both meetings. I like him (the governor) m

s. Stowe's third child,

m Putnam, Ohio, and George from Batavia, New York, while Catherine, Harriet, Henry, Charles, Isabella, Thomas, and James were already at home. It was the first time they had ever all met together. Mary had never seen James, and had seen Thomas but once. The old

life outlined by Mrs. Stowe's own hand. It is contained in the follo

m since then-the mother of three children! Well, if I have not kept the reckoning of old times, let

ows: "Now I must not forget to tell Mr. Stowe about the starch and dried apples"-doze-"ah, um, dear me! why doesn't Mina get up? I don't hear her,"-doze-"a, um,-I wonder if Mina has soap enough! I think there were two bars left on Saturday"-doze again-I wake again. "Dear me, broad daylight! I must get up and go down and see if Mina is getting breakfast." Up I jump and up wakes baby. "Now, little boy, be good and let mother dress, because she is in a hurry." I get my frock half on and baby by that time has kicked himself down off his pillow, and is crying and fisting the bed-clothes in great order.

little dresses, have just calculated the length and got one breadth torn off when Master Henry makes a doleful lip and falls to crying with might and main. I catch him up and turning round see one of his sisters flourishing the things out of my workbox in fine style. Moving it away and looking the other side I see the second little mischief seated by the hearth chewing coals and scraping up ashes with great apparent relish. Grandmother lays hold upon her and charitably off

the gen

o we, so

ndmother catches her by one shoulder, drags her away, and sets the jar up out of her reach. By and by

Indeed, my dear, I am but a mere drudge with few ideas beyond babies and hou

I hope I shall grow young again one of these days, for it seem

ead from my heels, I must say that I think myself a fortunate woman both in husband and children. My children I would not change for a

e city looking for her, and that if she were not careful she would be seized and conveyed back into slavery. Finding that this could be accomplished by boldness, perjury, and the connivance of some unscrupulous justice, Professor Stowe determined to remove the girl to some place of security where she might rema

that Mrs. Stowe conceived the thrilling episode of the fugit

to accomplish literary work amid her distracting domestic duties at this t

visit to her I had an opportunity one day of witnessing the combined exercis

o walk, 'where is that piece for the "Souvenir" which I promised the editor I would get from

Harriet. 'You will at least have to wait till I g

now, and she has been turning and blushing till I am sure it is time to go to her relief. Come, it would not take you three hours at the rate you can write to finish the courtship, marriage, catastrophe, éclaircissement, and all; and this three hours' labor of you

a great baking down in the kitchen, and there is a "new girl" for "help," besides prepar

ot to help a woman out of a scrape. Come, set your wits to work, let me h

ut kitche

ke your seat at the kitchen table with your writing weapons, and while you su

, and lard on one side, a dresser with eggs, pork, and beans and various cooking utensils o

e on this atlas in your lap; no matter

'Mina, you may do what I told you, while I write a few minutes

by, on the top of th

both laughed to see her merrim

l the portfolio to

llen, glancing at her brilliant face, and saying somet

nto a muse, as she attempted to

he pork on the top of

is. Mina is a new hand and cannot do anything without m

m quiet; you shall dictate and I will write. Now, this is the place where you left off: you were describing the scene between Ellen and her lover; the last sentence was, "Born

e milk into this pea

hrough her fingers and her whole frame

dow, as she turned her mind to her story. 'You may

nt so sacredly guarded"-Mina, roll that crust a little thinner.

ect Mina about these matters

ile my culinary knowledge and skill were proof to all Mina's investig

ver the manuscript; 'now you must direct Mina

ry lady than my friend. Without a wor

t sentence was: "What is this life to on

brown or the white br

first,' sa

to one who has suffer

pron and sat down for a moment in a

orne up. I have borne up under all that tr

ginger into this pu

one just now,' replied Ha

the hour must come. You must take them,

these egg-shells and all this

e pail by you,'

earthly comfort,"'

inued to

e-that I shall soon follow, but the breaking heart of a

t the gingerbread sta

utes,' sai

ger,"' I repeated in a dolorous

ng, till I finally accomplished my object. The piece wa

ere passed along from one to another, each one adding his or her budget of news to the general stock. When the filled sheet reached the last person for whom it was intended, it was finally remail

us as we write. It is postmarked Hartford, Conn., Batavia, N. Y., Chillicothe, Ohio, Zanesville, Ohio, Walnut Hills,

lls, Apri

g the preparations for my forward journey. Belle, father says you may go to the White Moun

ely to all,