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CHAPTER XVI.
SOLICITING HELP ABROAD TO BUY A MOTHER.
THUS fitted for her undertaking, Mrs. P. started out in Cincinnati first, and
obtained subscriptions to the amount of about three hundred dollars. Among
them was one by JOHN CARLISLE, Esq. (the gentleman in whose employ Mr.
Picquet has been for years), amounting to fifty dollars. A Mr. W. Mills gave ten
dollars, P. Wilson twenty dollars, and many others in Cincinnati five dollars
each.
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Mrs. P. then went to Lebanon, Ohio, to see Hon. Thomas Corwin, but he had
gone to Washington; but his nephew, Matthias Corwin, took her book, and
wrote as follows in it:
"I hereby certify that I have known the bearer, Louisa Picquet, for the last ten
years. She comes to Lebanon to ask aid to purchase her mother, who is now a
slave in Texas. I have no doubt but the money that is given will be faithfully
applied to that purpose.
M. CORWIN."Lebanon, January 28, 1860."
A Mr. Suydam went one way in Lebanon with Mrs. Picquet and the book, and
Mr. Corwin another, and between them raised a nice little sum; but the book
does not show where that subscription ends, and the next village begins. Mr.
Corwin then gave her a letter to some member of the legislature, at Columbus,
where she obtained $121. She next visited Dayton, Springfield, Xenia, Urbana,
and Wellington, in all of which places she obtained more or less help, though
the amounts were generally small.
24.03.2006
CHAPTER XVII.
LOUISA IS IDENTIFIED IN OHIO BY A FELLOW-
TRAVELER.
"WHILE in Ohio, going from Xenia to Springfield in the cars," says Mrs. P., "I