Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-05
The herOiSm of a Mother.

The New York Evangelist publishes the
following narrative "from a friend well known
in Philadelphia as a gentleman of the high
est responsibility, talents, and pie,y." The
gentleman referred to, we presume lobe Prof.
c.. ID. Cleveland
About three months ago, a very intelligent
and fine looking woman-a moIIier-caine
to me in the greatest distress 10 seek my aid
and counsel. She had two daughters living
in a slave State, the one IL and the other Is
years of age, and she had received a letter a
few days before, from the man, if man he
can be called, who claimed dominion over
them, that unless she could raise four hun
dred doLarS in two months, he would sell
them to be taken 10 Louisiana. She herself
was free, and was living in a very respecta-
Bile family in this city but her daughters
were born when she was a slave, and there
fore claimed as slaves by the law OF the
State. The gentleman with whom the mo-
ther was living, knowing my interest in the
cause and truly sympathlzing with her in her
distress, sent her to me to draw up a sub
s"criplion paper for her, that she might raise
the money. But here | could give her no
encouragement. | told her that the friends
of the slave in this city, who are but a small
number, were weary of the constant applica-
tions of this kind made to them and that
many would not give from principle; as they
felt it to be acknowledging the right of the
Shareholder to hold man as property, and g.
wing him that TO which he has no right. |
told her, too, that though | had frequently
uiyen myself in such cases, | did not like TO
do it, as far as the STAKEHOLDER was concern
ed for that with the same money he might
buy other children, and thus that her afillc'
tons would be merely transferred to another
mother.
AS | talked thus with her, her countenanct
fell, the tears ran down her cheeks, and SHIT
looked the very picture Of despair. Wha
true mother would not feel the bitterest an
guish at the thought of having her only twt
children torn from her forever, and meet
: doom infinitely worse than death! She wal
1 about 10 leave me, when | said "Stop
I moment. Though | think it impractical
n to raise this money in the way you designed
| will give you ten dollars with great plea
sure, and as much more as is necessary, |
YOU can get your children without giving III
.sman-stealer" a cent. i know something Q
: the place where they are and know a tu
II man who lives about thirty miles from then
n to whom | will give you a letter, and VIII
will aid YOU with advice, and whom | wi
request to give you for me, all the none
YOU NAV need. The man who holds you
re children has no right to them, except so f
n as the wicked and God-defying law gives
to him. They were stolen from you, the
ut mother, at their birth, and are still kept
We stolen. You have a right to them agair
s. the world for children are commanded
be obey their parents in the Lord, and mot t
- STAKEHOLDER in the"
At these words her countenance bFighte
" ed, and she said she would think of it, a
let me know, in a few days, her determil
" ton. Three days after, she called upon
as she had promised. She said her frien
NJ had dissuaded her from going, as it would
he attended with so much danger: but says 81
in II am resolved TO go; for | will rescue |
,er children from slavery, or perish with them
on it,"
| then sat down and wrote the letter | p
la. missed her to my friend, and arranged oil
matters, gave her the letter, and she left