New York, December 7, 1860.
Never, in my lifetime, have we been at so interesting a
point in our political history; and if you and William did not talk on the
volcanic topic before breakfast and after supper, I should think the blood of
your fathers had lost all moral vitality in your veins. Oh, for the spirit of
Wisdom and of Love! But alas! what hope of it, or what desert of it! I suppose
you will think it quite consonant to my cowardly character if I tell you that I
feel most deeply interested in the poor mothers and maidens that are trembling
in the midst of their servile enemies. As for that bullying State of South
Carolina, one would not much care. As C. (cousin C.) says,”Let the damned
little thing go!” or as C. B. (two of the most humane men I know) says, “Plow
them under, plow them under! It has been a little wasp from the beginning!”
SOURCE: Mary E. Dewey, Editor, Life and Letters of
Catherine M. Sedgwick, p. 387
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