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Pg. 1 at Joseph’s My Dea Isaac sixth day 12 o’clock- While May is busy preparing dinner I will scribble a little about our progress in the visiting departments yesterday I put a letter in the Glen cove office for thee, John + Mary brought us here yesterday morning did not encline to go with us to monthly meeting a _____ Joseph and Mary seemed to have quite a choice that I should keep my seat in the last meeting so I did so without a word or look of disaprobation, ex crept from Elizabeth Cox who was clerk and when she first discovered me she looked and stared as if she would like to frightened out of meeting but I paid no attention, nor felt no alarm, for I was prepared to give them my views about it + I do yet feel rather more independance among the friends than ^at any other meeting and should ____ have felt much embaracement if they had, have asked me to withdraw, Well Rachel commenced by say ing, “I have a baptisim to be baptized with an now am I straitined until it be accomplished “ and seemed and said she was exceedingly pressed down with a great weight of exercise, and several times repeated the first quotation, we saw what we were expecting and hoping were the symptoms of a coming storm upon Abolitionists, but did not get so great a denouncing as we expected she could not seem to get it out to her satisfaction, and kept trying it over and over to lash us under the kind of Threling mi nistry an finally got in Threling Lectures. Writers and venders of _____ , and try to explain the difference between Lectures and friends Ministers who had, she supposed sometimes received assistance in travling about and in some instances their expences paid _____ She made it clear that they were exactly on the same ground of some of our Lecturers, she was very lengthy and labored hard to _____ the wavering on what dangerous ground they were ___ when in any they way incouraged ^or countenanced these lecturers, _____ but she could not seemed to make out anything very strong, except about friends always feeling concionciously bound to sustain the government, and this notion of dist roying the union if persisted in would bring a great calamity upon us it would again bring us into persecutions as formerly, that if it was destroyed the priest would come in and make a worse one and bring on a much worse state, a union of Church and State x