in sight from Mr. Greeley’s house, at Turtle Bay, where Margaret, on her arrival, went to reside. ‘Seven hundred females,’ she writes, ‘are now confined in the Penitentiary opposite this point. We can pass over in a boat in a few minutes. I mean to visit, talk, and read with them. I have always felt great interest in those women who are trampled in the mud to gratify the brute appetites of men, and wished that I might be brought naturally into contact with them. Now I am.’
THE TRIBUNE AND HORACE GREELEY.
It was early in December of 1844 that Margaret took up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Greeley, in a spacious old wooden mansion, somewhat ruinous, but delightfully situated on the East River, which she thus describes: —
‘This place is, to me, entirely charming; it is so
completely in the country, and all around is so bold and
free. It is two miles or more from the thickly settled
parts of New York, but omnibuses and cars give me
constant access to the city, and, while I can readily see
what and whom I will, I can command time and retirement.
Stopping on the Haarlem road, you enter a
lane nearly a quarter of a mile long, and going by a
small brook and pond that locks in the place, and
ascending a slightly rising ground, get sight of the
house, which, old-fashioned and of mellow tint, fronts
on a flower-garden filled with shrubs, large vines, and
trim box borders. On both sides of the house are
beautiful trees, standing fair, full-grown, and clear.
Passing through a wide hall, you come out upon a
