H.
was not at home, but was away holding a protracted meeting, and Bro.
Burnett therefore called on his wife.

Mrs.Hutchinson was a pious, refined, and educated New England woman, who had married her husband after he had become known as the most successful evangelist in the "Old Christian Order" in the New England States.

She had with pain seen him turned aside from his chosen work by hard necessities, and was now greatly rejoiced to see him once more a preacher.Bro.

B.was an accomplished gentleman, whose polished and cultivated manners sometimes laid him open to the charge of a proud and aristocratic exclusiveness; but this Yankee lady herself knew how to queen it, and stood before him with no sense of inferiority.

She frankly said to him that herself and husband were abolitionists, but that they knew the value of peace, and would do what could be done, in good conscience, to make peace and keep it.Bro.Burnett evidently went away from Lawrence with a good opinion of this family of Yankee abolitionists, and Bro.