The old order seemed to her to be crumbling.

Revolution might break forth.

The middle classes in England, having secured their rights, as she expressed it, the laborers were now striving for the franchise.

Chartism was rampant.

What would it all come to?
Was England safe against such innovation?
But how about America, if the colored people were given freedom, not of the franchise merely, but in civil rights of property and free activity?
But contemporaneous with this letter, two events came into my life of profound influence.