Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Post, Mary Robbins

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1857?

Description

Handwritten letter from Mary Robbins Post to Isaac Post, 1857?

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1139

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

with the exclusiveness of sect I want to ackn
-owledge the good let it come from whom it may
all that live up to their highist [sic] convictions
unmindful of professions I told him I thought
there was no need to be affraid [sic] of the paper
it would strengthen him in them and I thought
would be a means to set him free from the
bondage of sect he said education or tradition
was very strong in him yet He told us lately
perhaps in the Q M that ^Jesus^ did not wish his
deciples [sic] to be taken out of the world but to
labor in it and that in our day it was des
-irable that we should labor in the world
to remove the great evils that so much abo
-unded that he thought it unnecessary to
wait for any special revelation to prompt
to feed the hungry or to clothe the naked
and that it was not right to judge and condem^n^
those who were laboring for the elevation of man
Others who spoke were all it seemed to me
more sounding abstractions mystical words
which my dull comprehension cannot fatho^m^
to make at all to coincide with the plain
teachings of the lovely Nazarene

(Page 2)

Richard Cromwell I understand thinks the
negro race are only fitted for slavery
as they are very little above monkeys in
intellect and he has sometimes almost
wished his was ^skin was colored that he might be^ a slave he thought he wou
ld be so good and obedient to his master
that it would be a benefit to himself
He need not wait for his skin to grow dark
as that would be no objection and his mind
is sufficiently clouded for bondage if this
is a sample of its quality And then to have
his sustained by a respectable community is
too bad at Maria Farrington s funeral they
tell us he was very objectionable even to
those who discountenance spiritualism
but they thought he needed eldering for
treating on that subject was very lengthy
and confessed he knew nothing himself and
no one else could know any thing about the
after state J D Wright we hear continues to
speak occasionally against it We have not
heard any thing in a long time Rachel has
been very circumspect lately and said nothing
against any reform She has been attending Phil
Y M this week A and C Willet accompanied her hope
she will not feel called to it on her return

Tags

Enslaved people; Quakers; Spiritualism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Post, Mary Robbins, “Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3429.

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