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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 17
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
and Hardiest tion f of those our race . l We the cann needle ot fe in el t , hese then establi , surprised shmen a t t the nor emaci will at ed
readers con be o amazed when py we tell them that they go every ye ; ar in large numbers into consumptionand terminate their sufferings in a premature
, grave . " The same authority goes on to say-
done " We to have relieve no symp the miseries athy with persons lessen w th h o tell misfor us t t unes hat no of thing those oug who ht to are be distant climeswould do all for the
doomed to a hard lot in . We we can skin sons and or the daug land hters in w of hich wre the tchedness y live . , Real whatever philanthropy may be the knows colour nothing of their of
unhappy the so comprehensive distinctions , . But of whil as society e to we embrace , ought nor is the to it feel a whole ffected for world all by , a geograp nd . do It excludes everything hical accide none that nts who . lies It are in is
our do wha power t we to lesse can t n o their relieve sufferings the miseries , we oug of ht those esp eciall our y to commisera landand t e and our own doors . This we ought before now to have done , and yet , not to have undone !
left the other " cause Surel of y those the slaves who have on the so other identified side themselves of the equator with and the
exerted themselves so much in their behalfwould wear laurels , exercise brighter th the an" sam ever e yet influence decked their for those brow , , with if they white would skins only
suffering The whole at home of my . public correspondence during the months ied into all
leadin of of March Mrs g journals Beecher and April of Stowe France in the ' s subsequent and year America 1858 , visit was ; but cop to on Eng the land occasion she the
considered . _. herself justified in doubting " facts ; " and on , her return to America , g contradiction ives them , in her published 1 will not " Sunny
Memories" a decided . _ISTow attempt to Mrs ask Stowe any , sensible or myself reader —is , which most of likel the y two to be individuals the best
informed of us . knows upon best this the truth matter of ; it or ? perh Mrs . ap Stowe s I should a minister say , ' s which wife
and a cleveramiable woman , was on a visit , to England , , boug had receiving ht never her , and experience spent , deservedl the years and y , the having in admiration a workroom only " Sunny of as every I (!) have one Memories ; ; had but not she "
of her visitwe can but , imagine that she saw everything very brightl therefore y : read in , a word her views , that upon she had the been subject misinformed I immediatel . Having y gave
which them my I addressed flat contradiction to _" The Times , founded " and on which experience , I here , in subjoin a letter .
, " Mrs . Beecher Stowe and the Dressmakers .
To the Editor of the Times . find Sir , —Having had ' Sunny to Memories correspondence ' put into with my hand journal , I am of surprised last to
I will a chapter not trouble referring you "with my quotations , but refer your your readers to the work year ,
VOL . XII . B
A Season With The Dressmakers. 17
A _SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 17
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/17/
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