ild! she had been a faithful servant--her
master tried to save her, but the tide of fury swept away his
efforts. * * * Oh, friend, perhaps, sometimes your heart
would ache, if you were only here and heard of the wrongs and
abuses to which these people have been subjected. * * *
Things, I believe, are a little more hopeful; at least, I
believe, some of the colored people are getting better
contracts, and, I understand, that there's less murdering. While
I am writing, a colored man stands here, with a tale of
wrong--he has worked a whole year, year before last, and now he
has been put off with fifteen bushels of corn and his food;
yesterday he went to see about getting his money, and the person
to whom he went, threatened to kick him off, and accused him of
stealing. I don't know how the colored man will vote, but
perhaps many of them will be intimidated at the polls."

From a letter dated Cheraw, June 17th, 1867, the following remarks are
taken:

"Well, Carolina is an interesting place. There is not a state in
the Union I prefer to Carolina. Kinder, more hospitable,
warmer-hearted people perhaps you will not find anywhere. I have
been to Georgia; but Carolina is my preference. * * The South
is to be a great theatre for the colored man's development and
progress. There is brain-power here. If any doubt it, let him
come into our schools, or even converse with some of our
Freedmen either in their homes or by the way-side."

A few days later she gave an account of a visit she had just made in
Florence, where our poor soldiers had been prisoners; saw some of the
huts where they were exposed to rain and heat and cold with only the
temporary shelter they made for themselves, which was a sad sight. Then
she visited the grave-yards of some thousands of Union soldiers. Here in
"eastern South Carolina" she was in "one of the worst parts of the
State" in the days of Slavery; but under the new order of things,
instead of the lash, she saw school books, and over the ruins of
slavery, education and free speech springing up, at which she was moved
to exclaim, "Thank God for the wonderful change! I have lectured several
nights this week, and the weather is quite warm; but I do like South
Carolina. No state in the Union as far as colored people are concerned,
do I like better--the land of warm welcomes and friendly hearts. God
bless