Letter from an Unidentified Person to Frances Miller Seward and William Henry Seward, July 1850
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Letter from an Unidentified Person to Frances Miller Seward and William Henry Seward, July
1850
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Date:1850-07
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Letter from an Unidentified Person to Frances Miller Seward and William Henry Seward, July 1850
action: sent
sender: Unidentified
Birth:
Death:
location: Unknown
receiver: Frances Seward
Birth: 1805-09-24
Death: 1865-06-21
location: Washington D.C., US
transcription:
revision: 2016-11-09
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Hon WH Seward
I am an old acquaintance
my mind had been much [ distured ]
Alternate Text: disturbed of late
upon the suffering of women and my heart
almost broken and happiness destroyed together
with 1000 of others who mourn in silence
and carry a smiling face before the publick
and by will all this task to unveil
the filth of their Lords and masters
while you men of power spend your time
in Washington [ quarenty ]
Alternate Text: quarrelling about a few slaves
at the South; and permiting an eavil, (Intemperance)
that is breaking the hearts of half the woman in
the , and sending them to a untimely
, with eve let me ask the the question
would you not? I would rather be a black
woman ^or man^ with a good master, than a white
one with a drunken white master
yet such is the fact that more than 100,000
white woman slaves there are in these United
Publik; and you Lords of who should
protect our rights; are spending your holetime about a few blacks, and letting your
own coller dye of grieft, not but I would wish
the hole coller to be fread I would
end all mankind and again let me ask
who is greater slave than a man
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that is so great a slave to rum
that it destroy all his affection for the wife
he has sworn to protect and the children
that God has instructed to his care? oh that
I could have the [ privaledge ]
Alternate Text: privilege of standing on the
floor in Congress an half hour and describe my
similar argument. I am sure (unless you were all
more or less under the influence of stimulus)
you would do something to prevent the great
eavil; and now Sir will you be so kind
as to hand this note to President Taylor
at a time when he will have time to
read; and will you [ esent ]
Alternate Text: assert t yourself to do
something to protect the happiness of women
you ever had a sister be thankful she goes
to heaven and with the wife of some inebriate
Husband; I will choose this servant for I fear you
will not take the time to read an think of it
Mrs Seward I direct this to you that you may
try and read it to your Husband at a quiet
time when he will have time to think if
any thing can be done; what a survey of worry
to the family and broken hearts and orphant
children if Liquor the License Law was abolished
from a sufferer
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Mrs William H Seward
Washington City
To the care of
Exc Gov Seward
Hon WH Seward
I am an old acquaintance
my mind had been much [ distured ]
Alternate Text
upon the suffering of women and my heart
almost broken and happiness destroyed together
with 1000 of others who mourn in silence
and carry a smiling face before the publick
and by will all this task to unveil
the filth of their Lords and masters
while you men of power spend your time
in Washington [ quarenty ]
Alternate Text
at the South; and permiting an eavil, (Intemperance)
that is breaking the hearts of half the woman in
the , and sending them to a untimely
, with eve let me ask the the question
would you not? I would rather be a black
woman ^or man^ with a good master, than a white
one with a drunken white master
yet such is the fact that more than 100,000
white woman slaves there are in these United
Publik; and you Lords of who should
protect our rights; are spending your holetime about a few blacks, and letting your
own coller dye of grieft, not but I would wish
the hole coller to be fread I would
end all mankind and again let me ask
who is greater slave than a man
that is so great a slave to rum
that it destroy all his affection for the wife
he has sworn to protect and the children
that God has instructed to his care? oh that
I could have the [ privaledge ]
Alternate Text
floor in Congress an half hour and describe my
similar argument. I am sure (unless you were all
more or less under the influence of stimulus)
you would do something to prevent the great
eavil; and now Sir will you be so kind
as to hand this note to President Taylor
Birth: 1784-11-24 Death: 1850-07-09
at a time when he will have time to
read; and will you [ esent ]
Alternate Text
something to protect the happiness of women
you ever had a sister be thankful she goes
to heaven and with the wife of some inebriate
Husband; I will choose this servant for I fear you
will not take the time to read an think of it
Mrs Seward I direct this to you that you may
try and read it to your Husband at a quiet
time when he will have time to think if
any thing can be done; what a survey of worry
to the family and broken hearts and orphant
children if Liquor the License Law was abolished
from a sufferer
Mrs William H Seward
Washington City
To the care of
Exc Gov Seward