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

LETTERS. 241
the emotions of that hour, but I dared not, lest I
should indirectly give a new impulse to war. For
his parents I feel that reverence which belongs to the
highest manifestation of devotion to duty and forgetfulness of self, in view of the mighty interests of humanity. There must be a noble pride in their great
sorrow. I am sure they would not exchange their
dead son for any living one."
TO THE SAME.
WAYLAND, 1876.
The books arrived safely; for which I thank you.
I must now tell you of something pleasant that has
happened to me. Miss Osgood left $2,000 for the
colored people, and appointed me trustee. I gave
$1,000 to the Home for old colored women, and with
the remainder I founded a scholarship at Hampton
College, Va. Soon after, I chanced to see a letter
from a young colored man in Georgia, to a lady who
had been his teacher. He had been working very industriously to earn money to go to Hampton College,
and had for that purpose placed $300 in the Freednman's Bank, and lost it all by the dishonesty of the
managers. His letter impressed me very favorably,
not only because it was uncommonly well written, but
especially because he wrote:'" Don't beg for me at
the North, my good friend. I will go to work and
try again. I want to row my own boat." I sent the
letter to General Armstrong, and asked that the " Osgood Scholarship" might be bestowed upon hilm.
That would defray the expense of his education, and
if he was unable to pay for board, necessary books,
etc., I agreed to be responsible therefor; with the
request that he might not know there was any one to
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