[Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm]@TWC D-Link bookHalf a Century CHAPTER XXII 4/4
Henry Peterson's _Saturday Evening Post, Godey's Lady's Book_, Graham's and Sargeant's magazines, and the anti-slavery papers, one and all, gave it pleasant greeting, while there were other editors who did not, in view of this innovation, forget that they were American gentlemen. There were some saucy notices from "John Smith," editor of _The Great West_, a large literary sheet published in Cincinnati.
After John and I had pelted each other with paragraphs, a private letter told me that she, who had then won a large reputation as John Smith, was Celia, who afterwards became my very dear friend until the end of her lovely life, and who died the widow of another dear friend, Wm.
H.Burleigh. In the second number of the _Visiter_, James H.McClelland, as secretary of the county convention, published its report and contributed an able article, thus recognizing it as the much needed county organ of the Liberty Party..
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