Yesterday Morning I Amused Myself With An

When Marriage Is What It Ought To Be, It Is Indeed The Very Happiest Condition Of Existence.

The Vast Concourse Of People Who Had Assembled To Witness The Triumphant Arrival Of The Successful Travellers Was Of The Lowest Orders Of Mechanics And Artisans, Among Whom Great Distress And A Dangerous Spirit Of Discontent With The Government At That Time Prevailed.

Politics Of All Sorts, I Confess, Are Far Beyond My Limited Powers Of Comprehension. Those Of This Country As Far As I Have Been Able To Observe, Resolve Themselves Into Two Great Motives. The Aristocratic Desire Of Elevation And Separation, And The Democratic Desire Of Demolishing And Levelling.

[on Disagreeing With Her Husband About His Slave-holding:] I Cannot Give My Conscience Into The Keeping Of Another Human Being Or Submit The Actions Dictated By My Conscience To Their Will.

I Have Sometimes Been Haunted With The Idea That It Was An Imperative Duty, Knowing What I Know, And Having Seen What I Have Seen, To Do All That Lies In My Power To Show The Dangers And The Evils Of This Frightful Institution.