Above all, let them know that you are about the only Abolitionist in _this_ vicinity." This severe letter does not seem to have affected her very deeply for, on the next day after receiving it, she writes her parents: "Since school to-day I have had the unspeakable satisfaction of visiting four colored people and drinking tea with them.

Their name is Turpin, and Theodore Wright of New York is their stepfather.

To show this kind of people respect in this heathen land affords me a double pleasure." Mr.McLean evidently did not believe in woman preachers, for the radical Susan writes him: I attended Rose street meeting in New York and heard the strongest sermon on "The Vices of the City," that has been preached in that house very lately.

It was from Rachel Barker, of Dutchess county.

I guess if you could hear her you would believe in a woman's preaching.