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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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called often to seeher friend Marcia, my family assistant. In some ofher calls I ascertained that she wished to attend myschool, and board at her own fathers house at somelittle distance from the village. I allowed her to enteras one of my pupils. By this act I gave great offense.The wife of an Episcopal clergyman who lived in thevillage told nie that if I continued that colored girl inmy school, it could not be sustained. I replied to her,That it mii^lit sink, then, for 1 should not turn her out!1 very soon found that some of my school would leavenot to return if the colored girl was retained. Underthese circumstances I made u)) my mind that if it were))Ossible I would teach colored girls exclusively. His- • The extract is from a private letter dated .May 15, 1869, addressed to Miss Earned, author of thetory of Windham County, Connecticut. Mrs. Jrudence Crandall Philleo is still living, in the full vigor ofher (acuities, at Elk Falls, Kansas. CONNECTICUT IN THE MJ J) OLE AGES. 781
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PRIDHNXE CRANDALL. FROM THE OIL-PAINTIXG, V,\ F. ALEXAXDER (1838), IN THE LIBRARY OF CORNEI.l. IMVERSETY. (In the latter part of March, 1838, at the suggestionof William Lloyd Garrison, the managers of the NewEngland Anti-Slavery Society voted to request MissCrandall to sit for her likeness. This she did in April,the painter being F. Alexander. A very inadequate-steel engraving was afterwards made from the canvasby W. L. Ormsby, of which the plate is now in thepossession of Mr. F. J. Garrison. The oil-portraitultimately passed into the possession of the late Re\-.Samuel J. May. Concerning its transfer to CornellUniversity, where it now is. President White kindlyfurnishes the following particulars : I first knew the ))ortrait, as )U-rhaps you did, whenit hung in the parlor of Mr. Mays old house at thetop of James street hill in Syracuse. He had an es-pecial affection for it, and told me the story of it, I be-ing then in my boyhood. » *• ()n the last after-noon of Mr. ^Iay■s life I

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