The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1818-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS ARrtCLhs
THE QUAKER LADY.

There il much Simpcily and pathos in the follow
Hng extract from work. recently pno ished,
s1ntitied Letters from the SOUTH" written dur.
ding an excprsion in the summer Of 1916, BY Mr..
.Paulding, Of New. York;
Having TWO or lh,ee hours 10 spare ,li
&ipocr, we. rambIod about the church ya'd,
fesding then nrecerds Of mortality, which,
though every where conhned to few sim
PIE iems, couces aing a few insIeni6ea0
people, are always interesting. They are
she history Of high and low /; and noae san
Rad then without being impressed With
cs,nviclion that all are his brothers st iss,---
Co. all die. Ho who moulders below ws
Aprn--and died and whethes rich or hog
Har, HE short history is shs,.of Kings. The
airuggies Of restless ambiion--the ssve sss
of nc grsAs--and tho story Of the wreck Of
lofty prids, We read as az interesting rcuanee,
aGdrea.iug ,tself solely ,othe imagination |.
hu when = monarch or o hero dies, he be-
coDes our equslj his death is an example
Que with that of the mssnest mortal; and
Ne Icle realize our common nature, ant
ccnpon end.
Willio poring over these tomb stones, our
attention was attracted by a long cavalcade,
on foor, on hot setback, and in car ages OF va.
rioas kinds, winding slowly over one OF the
hills at sdisraoce. 1t came towards the
church yard, entered IL and s,opt al a large
oak, under which was newly dog grave We
had not noticed before. Tne people OF he
village were attracted by IT,, and came up, one
efte, another, until there wero, ! suppose,
two hundred, men, woman and childeen, gath
cred ,ogsshes. Without a whisper, except
tb., of toe oaks around, the coffin was sken
from the wagon, lowered into the gave, and
covered with earth. never witnessed q si-
jpnce more solemn and affecting; and beau
tlfu, ss is our church funeral service, will
venture to ssy IL yaevsr taised = fneling of
more deep and awfui devotion, than that which
Impressed The dead silencc around. There
vac no osed OF saying " dust 70 dust - cye-
~ clod Of earth, ds il fell hollowly on the
coffio, proclaimed that neither vss any proof
vsmting that " man who is born OF woman"
mus, die, for thousand iitile hillocks arou0d
aago silent testimony 10 tho fact. When
the mound ovor, the grave was snootecd
Wi,h pious care. little buxzing ran through
the crowd->anu as il slowly sepernscd, some
sentersd to talk about the deceased Tc,sop,
Who was, found, a quaker lady, who tled--
a. Others die, of some com mso malsdy or
otner.--Shc was neither a belle, nor beau.
~! no crowd ever followed her at . ball, nor
coa,d learn thss she had ever received a
singlo offer Of marriage, except from the
perseo We had ish still stseding BY her grave.
Ee there was something IN the story iearo-
cd of her, that Affected me, can hardly tell
why, for il ives no, the least romantic.
I, scems that her husband, in consequcsce
of imprudence or misfortane, had several
pes before been confined in prison Tor
leoi, iesviog q family 5f eight children dss-
si,u'e.--By the rare magic of Industry and
pconomy united, this womao BY her own
lah ,urs, kept the little ones ,ogcther-fed,
clo,hed and sent them to school until thc
iail accidentally took fire, and the prisooe,
walked nome. Hece he Afterwards remained
pumaies,cd, Cor the virtues Of his wife had
nsnci6ad his pe'son.--Thore b species oil
calm, psrseverine, courageous, and uucon-
quefab'e industry, that gets the better even
oi fats. Such, II seems, vac the incostry of
ehis valuable woman, and II wss rewarded @
ven in this wo,ld.--She lised--0od bless he
Ito see ner husband independent, and Z
sha 9 many years Of independence with him
She reared all her children, saw them hon
orably scs,led, ssd heard the old people say.
shstwhNevcs had been her sscri6ees for ,hcn
they had repsid hs,, by their du,ifol sGeeliSn
.tnd sSsmplary conduct. Then, when she =.
~ aseA ns.hss Ssss asds hsssx eDssI