Could These People Only Know In What Sacred Simplicity I Had Been
Living In The State Of Maine, Where The
Only dressmaker of our circle
was an intelligent, refined, well-educated woman, who was considered
as the equal of us
All, and whose spring and fall ministrations to our
wardrobe were regarded a double pleasure, - a friendly visit as well as
a domestic assistance, - I say, could they know all this, they would
see how guiltless I was in the matter. I verily never thought but that
the nice, pleasant person, who came to measure me for my silk, was
going to take it home and make it herself; it never occurred to me
that she was the head of an establishment.
And now, what am I to do? The Times seems to think that, in order to
be consistent, I ought to take up the conflict immediately; but, for
my part, I think otherwise. What an unreasonable creature! Does he
suppose me so lost to all due sense of humility as to take out of his
hands a cause which he is pleading so well? If the plantation slaves
had such a good friend as the Times, and if every over-worked female
cotton picker could write as clever letters as this dressmaker's
apprentice, and get them published in as influential papers, and
excite as general a sensation by them as this seems to have done, I
think I should feel that there was no need of my interfering in a work
so much better done.
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