I think he aimed at me in
speaking of soft, harmless bugs which creep over your newspaper or book.
Many faces were turned to me as he repeated these lines. I am sorry to
say the piece was much applauded. It has put back the cause of
emancipation in College, I fear, a term.
The following introduction to another piece was written, and was read,
at the same meeting, by a member of my own class. I fear that there is a
sly hit intended by the writer, which I do not discern, at somebody, or
something, related to freedom. This I suspected from the applause it
excited on the part of those who I know are the most deadly foes we have
to free institutions. I obtained a copy of this introduction. It will
serve, at least, to show you, dear Aunty, what a variety of topics we
have to excite our minds here in College. You can exercise your
discretion about letting uncle read it, as it is on a subject of some
delicacy. The writer says,--
"I am collecting facts from our daily papers illustrating the Barbarism
of Matrimony. My list of wives poisoned, beaten, maimed for life by
their husbands, and of divorces, cruel desertions, the effects on wives
of intemperance in husbands, is truly fearful.
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