Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-07-25
LIT s;EAEY CADET.
PROVIDENCE, WEDNESDAY. JULY 25.
ADMINISTRATION CANDIDATES.
FoR THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
lion. TRISTAN BURGES.
Hon. DUTEE J. PEARCE.
IMPRISONMENT OF A FEMALE

IMPRISONMENT OF 4 FEMALE.
Tn :cply to remarks contained in the N. York
Com. Advertiser, Of last Friday. which &C
conpanicd the republication ofan article con-
famed in our paper of last Wednesday, relative
10 the Imprisonment Of an aged female, we
have the satisfaction of beng enabled to state,
that the unfortunate and poyerty-strickcn wild
ow, was released from prison, after having
been confined there but few hours, by her
creditor, who humanity suffered her to retire
ffom her cell, in consideration Of her having
yielded up to him her last bed; the last rem
nant that had been left from the wreck Of ru-
in. That the good matron should have con-
scnfed TO such step, is TO be regretted, for il
she had but remai med in confinement few
hours longer, ten times tie sum for the non
payment OF which she was committed, would
have been thrown into her lap, by our humane
and benevolent citizens. many ofwhom as soon
as they heard Of her hard fate, and the con-
Mnely that had been hcaped upon her mis-
. fortunes, repaired to the jail, 70 relieve her,
ana place at her disposal, the means TO pur-
chase her release, and 70 satisfy the voracious
avarice sfher Shvock Of a creditor. But tire
appeals Of affection were made 10 her hear, by
suffering offspring; and that she might once
more behold her boy, and lull his pains, and
d'ssipate his anguish, she yielded up her last
h.I to ,b, hi hor ~, -
and thus by parting with the little all that had
been left her, and on which she reposed her
aged care-worn form, she purchased her de-
Hverence.
As she sat in her prison house. weeping over
her hard fate, and looking back on bet
rcr davs when in the spring-tidc Of life she was
comfortable and happy, and contrasting her
present situation with that she once enjoyed, a
messenger was sent TO tell her Of the arrival of
her ron. who had Just returned from land Of
pcstilence, stricken With malignant disease,
and stretched amid his aguny an a bed Of
straw, in that common receptacle for the SICK,
the Hospital. The appeal OF boy to the al
f-esions Of fond mother were not TO he rc-
ss,cd;-she would have flown as on the yinrs
of IN eagle 10 his death couch, but she could
not, for The walls Of prison confined her, and
the cold-heartcdness of the world was not
more CHILLING than the agony she indured. In
tbs, her hour Of trial and Of fheart-sufIering she
cent 10 her creditor, implorcd him for the sake
of her child to release her;-and he did So
bn in granting her her liberty-he demanded
the pound Of flesh and took from her her bod!
Regardless Of all else but her boy, the aged
mother ged to bis abiding place, and again
pressed him to her bosom, her darling child
and though 'obbcd Of all her earthly goods, she
wqs happy, for -he now had an opportunity of
administering the balm Of Gilead to her Off
spring. and Of performing the hallowcd rites
Of a mother
The scene that took place between them,
mns, have been sufficient to melt the heart ofa
flyer INTO pity and where is the man SO dead to
al the sensbilities Of our nature, rs not TO be
moved, and awakened TO all the better feelings
ofmankind, when bcholding housclcss and
a bedless matron, pressing to her bosom, midst
emotions Of extatic Joy, the offspring Of hel
love. and shedding the tears Of affection, or
YRe pssied check OF her son:--s hilst that SON