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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To E. Carpenter. (search)
To E. Carpenter. Northampton [Mass.], September 6, 1838. When I remember what a remarkable testimony the early Friends bore (a testimony which seems to me more and more miraculous, the more I compare it with the spirit of the age in which they lived), I could almost find it in my heart to weep at the too palpable proofs that little now remains of that which was full of life. This letter refers to the opposition to active anti-slavery effort manifested by the New York yearly meeting of Friends of what is called the Hicksite division. On the Orthodox side there was the same disposition to discountenance decided abolition labors, although both societies professed to maintain a testimony against slavery. I was saying this, last winter, to George Ripley, a Unitarian minister of Boston. He replied beautifully, Mourn not over their lifelessness. Truly the dead form alone remains ; but the spirit that emanated from it is not dead, the word which they spake has gone out silently int