“I spoke on Free Produce, and now by the way I believe in that kind of Abolition.  Oh, it does seem to strike at one of the principal roots of the matter.  I have commenced since I read Solomon Northrup.  Oh, if Mrs. Stowe has clothed American slavery in the graceful garb of fiction, Solomon Northrup comes up from the dark habitation of Southern cruelty where slavery fattens and feasts on human blood with such mournful revelations that one might almost wish for the sake of humanity that the tales of horror which he reveals were not so.  Oh, how can we pamper our appetites upon luxuries drawn from reluctant fingers?  Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?  I have read somewhere, if I remember aright, of a Hindoo being loth to cut a tree because being a believer in the transmigration of souls, he thought the soul of his father had passed into it ...  Oh, friend, beneath the most delicate preparations of the cane can you not see the stinging lash and clotted whip?  I have reason to be thankful that I am able to give a little more for a Free Labor dress, if it is coarser.  I can thank God that upon its warp and woof I see no stain of blood and tears; that to procure a little finer muslin for my limbs no crushed and broken heart went out in sighs, and that from the field where it was raised went up no wild and startling cry unto the throne of God to witness there in language deep and strong, that in demanding that cotton I was nerving oppression’s hand for deeds of guilt and crime.  If the liberation of the slave demanded it, I could consent to part with a portion of the blood from my own veins if that would do him any good.”

After having thus alluded to free labor, she gave a short journal of the different places where she had recently lectured from the 5th of September to the 20th of October, which we mention here simply to show the perseverance which characterized her as an advocate of her enslaved race, and at the same time show how doors everywhere opened to her:  Portland, Monmouth Centre, North Berwick, Limerick (two meetings), Springvale, Portsmouth, Elliott, Waterborough (spoke four times), Lyman, Saccarappo, Moderation, Steep Falls (twice), North Buxton, Goram, Gardner, Litchfield, twice, Monmouth Ridge twice, Monmouth Centre three times, Litchfield second time, West Waterville twice, Livermore Temple.  Her ability and labors were everywhere appreciated, and her meetings largely attended.  In a subsequent letter referring to the manner that she was received, she wrote, “A short while ago when I was down this way I took breakfast with the then Governor of Maine.”

For a year and a half she continued in the Eastern States, speaking in most or all of them with marked success; the papers meting out to her full commendation for her efforts.  The following extract clipped from the Portland Daily Press, respecting a lecture that she was invited to deliver after the war by the Mayor (Mr. Washburne) and others, is a fair sample of notices from this source: