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AND THENCE
TO NEW YORK.
SHE next went to Oberlin, where she met with most cheering encouragement.
Hon. Mr. Plumb (one of the "Rescuers," we
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believe,) took hold of the matter with great spirit. The Wesleyan Methodist
Church took a collection of $14.92; the Congregational Church, $99.58; and the
Episcopal Church, ninety-five cents! Other private subscriptions brought the
amount collected in Oberlin up to $135; for which a draft was sent on to Mr. W.
T. Drake, banker, Cincinnati. She then visited Penfield, Litchfield, Medina, and
other small places, collecting small amounts (all of which are carefully entered
in the subscription-book), and finally went to Cleveland. Here she received
$9.62 at the door of the Baptist Church, in the morning on the Sabbath, and
$17.14 in a collection in the First Congregational Church, in the evening.
At Cleveland Mrs. P. was advised to visit Buffalo, where the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in session. The Baptist
minister in Cleveland wrote a letter to another Baptist minister in Buffalo, and a
Mr. Day wrote another to Rev. Mr. Hill, a delegate to the General Conference.
Mrs. Picquet then went on to Buffalo and delivered one of her letters, but
received so little encouragement, owing, doubtless, to the interest upon the
subject of slavery then pending in the General Conference, that she concluded to
go on to New York.
Mr. Henry R. Smith, of Cleveland, had been very active in Mrs. P.'s behalf
while she was in that city, and had given her letters to Henry Ward Beecher and
others in New York. On reaching that city she met with excellent
encouragement, so that, in a few days, she collected $223 there; $55.70 of this
was collected at the Anniversary of the American Anti-slavery Society, at the
Cooper Institute.
24.03.2006
CHAPTER XIX.
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
WHILE in New York, Mrs. P. was going from the Brooklyn Ferry to 29th
Street, where she stopped. On her way up, between Fulton Street and the Park,