Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-05
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A sIMPLE AND AFFECTING
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Many years ago German left his coun-
try and with his famil ame into the state
of Penn; to live there. He was poor
man, and had alarge family. There was
no schools there during tho week or on the
Sabbath, and no churches So the poor
man used to keep his family at home on
the Sabbath, and teach them from Gods
wore, for he was very good man. In
the year 1854 dreadful war broke out in
Canada between the French and English.
The Indians joined the French and used to
go to Penn, burn houses, murder the peo-
pie, and carry off every thing they. wanted.
The man and his oldest boy. and Two little
girls named Barbara and Regina were at
home, while the wife and one Of the boys
were gone to carry Some grain to the mill,
a few miles off. The Indians at once kill
ed the man and his son, and took the two
little girls, one agedten and the other nine,
and carried them away, along with great
many other weeping children whom they
had taken after numbering their parents. II
was never known what became ofBarbara,.
.hs Oldest Girl; but Regina, with another
little girl Of two years old, whom Regina
had never seen before, were given to an old
Indian woman who was very cruel. Fer
only son lived with her, and supported her;
but he was sometimes gone for several
weeks, and then the old woman used to
send the little girls 10 gather roots and herbs
in the woods, for tho old woman to eat;
and when they did not get enough, she
used to beat them cruelty. Regina never
forgot her good father and mother, and,the
little girl always kept close to her. She
taught the little girl to kneel down under
the trees and pray to the Lord Jesus, and
say over with her all the hymns which the
Parents had taught her. In this state Of
slavery these children lived for nine long
years. till Regina was about nineteen, and
her little friend eleven years old. Their
hearts oil this time seemed to wish for that
which is good. They used torepeat not
only the texts of scripture which Regina
would remember, but there was one favor
ite hymn which they often said over. In
1854 the kindness of God broughtthe Eng
fish Col. Bouquet to the place where they
we're. He conquered the Indians andmade
them ask for peace. He granted it on con-
dition that all the white prisoners should be
given to him. More Than four hundred
were brought to the COL; and among them
fhsse two girls. They we're all poor,
wretched looking objects.
The Colonel called them to town called
Carlisle in Penn, and had it printed in all
the newspapers, that all parents who had
lost children by the Indians, might come
and see ifthey were among the 400 poor
csptiyes Poor Regina's sorrowing moth
era poor widow, among others went TO
Carlisle to SEQ If she could End her child
renl But when she got there she did not,
nor could not know Regina She had
grown up. and looked. and dressed. and
spoke like the indians. The mother went
up and down among the captiyes weeping,
but could not find her child. She stood
wscping and gazing, when Col. Bouquet
came up and said, ''do you recolect nothing
BY which your child, might be discover'd7"
She said, she recollected nothing blu, a