Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-06


laws, and regulations for social protection /;
but it puzzled her poor head, as it does many
a wiser one, why men should be magistrates
when they practise the same things for which
thew send women to Blackwells Island
She had never read or heard any thing about
"Woman's Rights !" otherwise, it might
have occurred to her that IL was because men
made all the laws, and elected all the mag
~istrates.
The possible effect of magisterial advice
and projection is unknown; for she did not
accept the invitation to call that evening"
As she walked away from the tempter, think
ing sadly of Robert Andrews, and of her dear
brother Jerry, she happened to meet the
young man who had gained her first youth
full love, unmixed with thoughts of evil
With many tears, she told him her adventures
since they had parted. The account kindled
his Indignation, and excited his sympathy 10
a painful degree. Had he lived in a true and
rational state OF society, the impulse then
given to his better feelings might have even
tually raised his nature to noble unselhshness
and manly frankness. But as it was, he fell
back upon deception and false pride. He
hired apartments for Susan, and wheedled
his mother out of the means Of paying for
them. Those who deem the poor girl impair
donable for conserving to this arrangement,
would learn mercy under similar circumstan-
ces Of poverty, scorn and utter loneliness.
Ten years passed since Jerry last parted
with his blooming sister then fourteen years
old. He had been shipwrecked twice, and
returned from sea in total blindness, caused
by mismanagement of the small pox. He
gained a few coppers by playing a clarinet
in the street, led by a little ragged boy. Ev-
cry where he inquired for his sister, but no
one could give him any tidings of her. One
day, two women stopped to listen, and one
of them put a shilling into the boys hand
"Why, Susy, what possesses you to give so
much to hear that old cracked pipe :" said
one. "He looks a little like somebody |
knew when l was a child" replied the 9TH
er; and they passed on. The voices were
without infexions, rough and animal in tone,
indicating that the speakers led a merely
sensual existence. The piper did not Tecog-
nize either of them but the name of Susey
went through his heart like a sunbeam thro'
November clouds; then she said he looked
like somebody she had known! He inquir-
ed of the boy whether the woman called Su-
sy was handsome. He replied, " No. She
is lean and pale her cheek bones stand out,
and her great staring dark eyes look crazy
The blind man h~esitated a moment, and then
said, "Let us walk quick and follow Them
They did go, but lost sight of the women at
the turning of a dirty alley. For six weeks
the blind piper kept watch in the noighbor-
hood, obviously a very bad one. In many
houses he inquired if any one knew a woman
by the nam of Susan Gray; but he always
received an answer in the negative.
At last an old woman said that a girl ma
med Susan Andrews boarded with her for a
while; that she was very feeble and lived in
a street near by. He followed the directions
she gave, and stopped before the house to
play. People came to the door and windows,
and in a few moments the boy pressed his
hand and said, There is the woman you
want to find" He stopped abruptly, and
exclaimed, "Susy! !" There was an anxious
tenderness in his tones which the bystanders
heard with loud laughter. They shouted,
"Susy you are called for! Here's abeau for
you ~ and many a ribald jest went round
But she, in a sadder voice than usual, said,
"Ny poor fellow what do you want of me %
"Did you give me a shilling a few weeks
ago :" he asked. ''Yes, | did !; but surely
that was no great thing" Had you ever a
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