f all this
terrible wrong remains untouched."...

Your fish pole never caught so luscious a basketful as it has this
afternoon. I made a march through the peach orchard with pole in
hand to fish down the soft Early Crawfords that had escaped even
the keen eyes of father and mother when they made their last
detour. As the pole reached to the top-most bough and down dropped
the big, fat, golden, red-cheeked Crawfords, thought went away to
the owner of the rod, how he in days gone by planted these little
trees, pruned them and nursed them and now we were enjoying the
fruits of his labor, while he, the dear boy, was away in the
prairie wilds of Kansas. I thought of many things as I walked
between the rows to spy out every ambushed, not enemy but friend of
the palate. With the haul made I filled the china fruit dish and
then hallooed for Mary L. and Ann Eliza to see what I had found,
and down they came for a feast. I shall send Aaron and Guelma the
nicest ones and how I wish my dearest brother could have some to
cool his fevered throat.

Evening.--Father brings the Democrat giving a list of killed,
wounded and missing, and the name of our Merritt is not therein,
but oh! the slain are sons, brothers and husbands of others as
dearly loved and sadly mourned.

Later.--Your letter is in to-day's Democrat, and the Evening
Advertiser says there is "another letter from our dear brother in
this morning's Shrieker for Freedom." The tirade is headed
"Bleeding Kansas." The Advertiser, Union and American all ridicule
the reports from Kansas, and even say your letters are gotten up in
the Democrat office for political effect. I tell you, Merritt, we
have "border ruffians" here at home--a little more refined in their
way of outraging and torturing the lovers of freedom, but no less
fiendish.

Miss Anthony was busy through September and October securing speakers
for the national convention. She still believed that her chief strength
lay in her executive ability. Having written Lucy Stone that she could
not and would not speak, the latter answered: "Why do you say the
people won't listen to you, when you know you never made a speech that
was not attentively heard? All you need is to cultivate your power of
expression. Subjects are so clear to you that you can soon make them as
clear to others." In response to an invita