She felt deeply
the shame and wrong of American slavery, and tried to make her
workmates see and feel it too.(Petitions to Congress for the
abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia were circulated
nearly every year among the mill-girls, and received thousands of
signatures.)
Whenever she was not occupied with her work or her reading, or
with looking after us younger ones,--two or three hours a day was
all the time she could call her own,--she was sure to be away on
some errand of friendliness or mercy.
Those who do most for others are always those who are called upon
continually to do a little more, and who find a way to do it.
People go to them as to a bank that never fails. And surely, they
who have an abundance of life in themselves and who give their
life out freely to others are the only really rich.
Two dollars a week sounds very small, but in Emilie's hands it
went farther than many a princely fortune of to-day, because she
managed with it to make so many people happy.
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