Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-22
Death Of Sarah HsightOn Case,
RANpoLpH, Dec. Nth, ls4!

hANDOBBH, aDtCs ltlh3 lOf1s |
FRrENp JoHNsoN:-Sarah leighton, the
wife of my brother Harvey NJ. Case, aged 81
years, is dead have just returned from the
funeral. In her death, we all feel deeply the
loss of one who1was indeed an ornament in
all the affairs of social life. The Anti-Sla-
very cause has lost a firm and faithful friend.
Actuated by the desire to promote "peace
on earth and good will among men" she
participated in all the reforms of the day.
Born in England during the excitement pre-
ceding the West India Emancipation Act,
Anti-Slayery was part and parcel of her very
being, as indeed it seems to be of all of the
leighton Family; and to them indeed the
cause of Peace and Anti-Slavery are much
indebted for their soul-stirring songs. They
are the Hutchinsons of the West, though
never singing Clay or Whig songs" Par
don me, for l have wandered. She has gone
to q higher and holier sphere of action.
/ cannot better describe the scene than to
copy from her own native country's illustrl-
Gus poet, Robert Pollok:
"Indulge another note of kindred tone,
Where grief was mixed with melancholy joy.
Our signs are numerous, and profuse our tears
For she we lost was lovely and we loved
Her much: fresh in our memory
is yet the day she died.
When tidings came,
A. child was born; and tidings came again,
That she who gave it birth was sick to death;
So swift trod sorrow on the heels OF JOY!
We sought to stay
An angel on the earth a spirit ripe
For Heaven.
Her mother bending stood
And down her aged checks fell many drops
OF bitterness her husband, too, was there,
And brothers, and they wept-hcr sister, too,
Did weep and sorrow comfortlcss;
. ana all
Within the house tcas dolorouS and sad.
Some days previous to her death, she re-
quested that our mutual friend ii. c. Wright
should be invited to address the friends who
should be gathered. Henry was obtained.
The Westinghouse at Root;town Centre,
owned by the Presbyterians, was kindly fur
nished, and was filed with attentive listeners
while he discoursed for some two hours on
questions connected with human e~rjStence,
such as these: God works and governs by
fixed and immutable laws in the moral, as
well as in the material world; that God has
stamped his laws upon our nature; has
stamped himself, belief in him, belief in i'm.
mortality, society, upon our constitution
that pain and death come by and through the
violation of these fixed laws; that in this in
stance these lows were violated, he demon
strated from the fact, that the aged mother
survives the child, and grand-child; although
the violation may have been, as 1t probabl.
was, the result of ignorance, in the departe'
and in her t ;estors; that God does not in
hict pain and death, therefore we can hay
no right to inflict them; that the Theolog.
which fathers upon God human suffering
and death is not Theology but Demonology
that did we obey natures laws, death woul
rather be a translation to a higher sphere
that " dying and going to heaven, or going t
hell" are theological enigmas, alike devon
of meaning and without any foundation i
truth that it is the highest duty of men {
prepare to liue, and not to die, as the pries
hood of the present day, in their %ignoranc
of both God and man, %enjoins. These wei
the chief points upon which he discourse'
as | now r~ecollect them. Certainly l neve
listened to him with more interest.
In funeral affairs, to the people of Root
town and Edinburgh, it was any thing b'
ORTHODOX. The priests, having bewitched IL
people with their sorceries for a long tim
Igreatly rejoice in the dawn of the "goo
time coming" when man can enter til
state of existence, independent of the tege
demain of the Doctor-craft, and 60 into
higher state without the jugglay of Il
Priest-craft; for this l labor.
TRUMAN CASE.
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