JULY 16.
Miss Beecher prays,
if I want any more comfort in this life, that I will not try to build up a
college at the West, and says Mr. Stowe held up his hands in deprecation at the
thought. So you see what persons who know about things think our prospect would
be.
I should like to see
Father Pierce anywhere, even in a picture; but still think that he and I, and
such looking people, ought to let those who don't know us inquire how we look,
rather than show our faces.
I see that some one,
in a Maine paper, says he wanted to nominate Ralph Waldo Emerson for President,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne for Vice-President; but, seeing they have such good men
as Scott and Graham up, he concludes not to do any thing more about it. Wit
ought not to run its head against a stump of any kind. That man forgot that
both President and Vice-President cannot come from the same State.
I do feel homesick
here. When I was here in the summer of '48, I had so much to do, that I had no
time to think how I felt: I was still Secretary then. The next summer I spent
here (1850) was the year of the slavery controversy; and I was too much alive
to the immense interests at stake to have any consciousness of my
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, pp. 375-6
