Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-26
A Grandmother who would be Buried il .7t Free Soil.

One of the editors of the Cincinnati COm- merciat relates the following touching incident. He was travelling on the cars up to Cleveland. to report the proceedings of the Lake Under writer's Convention, held last week. He says ::
 II must tell you of a rare scene that was witnessed oil the cars coming up. At Crestline a very aged wonan apparently in dying COL dition, was borne into the rear car by two brakemen, and left in charge of a lad of four teen years, who proved to be her sole attend ant The passengers were astoiishcd that so old person--appareutly quite hundred years should be moved in winter even so far as the next station, and they gathered round to help the boy, for she was gaspinS as if for her last breath Presently the fresh air and cup of cold water revived the aged sufferer, and we asked the boy why he had been left alone with such a charger
 ~"The boy told his story in clear manly voice, and it was this; It was his grandmother; he had brought her thus from Greene county, Missouri, near the border of Arkansas and Kansas by stage to Jefferson City, thence by railroad, and was taking her to Scotland She had come out from the old country to die among her children, w.'o were well to-do planters m Southwestern Missouri but she had taken an insane dislike to the country, and nothing would do but she must be carried back to Scotland She would receive no attentions, would not even wear the clothes provided her. She would hardly take food enough to keep body and soul together She had endured all but death ill the removal from Scotland to Missouri, but
 in the first month of her arrival, this craze came upon her, and we've had no peace since.' In vain his father had expostu'atcd and begged till his patience and flial love was exhausted, and he had to choose between .seuding the old one to the crazy house in St. Louis. or back to Scotland, but he wad na gang vi her, SD did mysel.
 "' A wee bit O air-a wee bit a wee bit y gasped the old woman and We hurried to help her, for it really seemed that death was there to free the spirit from the worn and shriveled body. She revived little, and we could not help asking the boy further questions. His story was straight. and evidently true. He had clear voice, with metallic ring, that rose adove the din of the whrling cars, and We listened and wondered By accident a passen- ger, De- Cook, of the House of Representa- tives. believe, asked, and was there no cause of complaint whatevers'
 q" None, nonc,' answered tho boy, only she cad out she could na breathe for the slavery, and she could na die ill peace for the bIuid on father, and she must gang owre the sea, aud be buried on the hills wi the free folks y "Now we saw another person. The with cred. old erone was translated, as it were, be- fore our eyes. We saw the will of an heroic scotch woman staying the dissolution of a worn out body that it might not be left in ground from which. in her ears almost cold in death was cry ing out the blood of her brethren She will not die yet her decaycd body may no lenger respond even to that sublime will, but the spirit will cling toits mortifying temple till that
 is deposited among the Burns aad rocks of Scotland.