Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a biographical introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips.

190 LETTERS.
that the war is over, and slavery is abolished, I think
his reason for enjoining secresy no longer exists.
When I urged upon him that the moral influence of
the action might do good, he did not renew his prohibition, In a recent letter to me he expresses great
satisfaction that he has been enabled to take an active part in the struggle that has resulted in the
emancipation of the slaves. How I wish that your
darling Robert had survived to look back upon the
Revolution as a thing completed, and to glory in his
share of it! Yet perhaps it would not have been better so. I am glad it is proposed to erect a statue to
him in Boston; but I hope they will not place it in
the vicinity of Daniel Webster. If Webster had
done his duty, there would have been no storming of
Fort Wagner.
TO THE SAMIE.
1865.
I agree with Garrison in thinking the Anti-Slavery
Society had better dissolve when the States have ratified the andmdment to the Constitution. But I
think they ought to form themselves into a society for
the protection of the freedmen. Those old slaveholders will " act like Cain " as long as they live.
They will try to discourage, misrepresent, and harass
the emancipated slave in every way, in order to prevent the new system of things from working well,
just as the Jamaica planters did. It will not do to
trust the interests of the emancipated to compromising politicians; their out-and-out radical friends must
mount guard over them.