vidently entangled and embarrassed in her
posture, uttering the most heart-rending cries and shrieks, with
intermingled calls to the horse to stop.

I could not help looking at the horse, as he passed, with feelings of
strong displeasure. To think that anything having an ear to hear and a
sensibility to feel should be so heedless of the cries of distress,
roused up my soul to indignation. As I reflected, however, it occurred
to me that no doubt this horse had been subjected to unkind treatment
from his youth up. I began to blame his owners. Had the law of kindness
been observed in the early management of this horse, doubtless he would
have regarded the first appeal of this young lady to him. May we not
hope, dear Aunt, that a new era is dawning upon us with regard to the
universal triumph of love and kindness over oppression of every kind,
and that the brute creation will partake of its benign influences? The
tone and manner in which horses are spoken to often sends a chill to my
heart.

This reminds me, if you will excuse longer delay in my narrative, of
some unfavorable impressions which I received lately on my way to
Boston, with regard to the imperious manner in which a traveller is
assailed by advertisements on the fences, as you pass through the
environs of the city. Every few miles, as the cars passed along, I saw,
printed on the rough boards of a fence: "Visit" so and so; "Use" so and
so; "Try" so and so. I would not be willing to say how often my
attention was caught by those mandatory advertisements. At last I became
conscious of some feeling of resistance. Whether it was that I began to
breathe the air of Bunker Hill, and the atmosphere which nourishes our
most eminent friends of freedom, so many of whom, you know, live in
Boston and vicinity, I cannot tell; but I found myself saying, with
quite enough resentment and emphasis, "I will not 'use' so and so; I
will not 'try' so and so; especially, I will not 'visit' so and
so,--First, It will not be convenient. Secondly, I have no occasion to
do so. Thirdly, I do not know the way; but, Finally, I do not like to be
addressed in this manner, as an overseer of a Southern plantation
addresses a slave. I am not a slave. I am a Massachusetts freeman." This
way of speaking to people, dear Aunty, must be discountenanced. It will,
by and by, beget an aptitude for servile obedience; the eye and ear
becoming accustomed to the forms of domination, we shall have yokes and