Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-14
MUST BE BURIED WITH THE PREEr'

One Of the editors of the Cincinnati Com sreial
relates the following touching incident. lie was
travelling on the cars up to Cleveland to report the
proceedings of the Lake Underwriters Con,sn-
ton, held last week. lie says:
l must tell you a rare scene that was witnessed
On tho cars coming up. At C~restline, q very aEsa
woman, apparently in q dying condition, was borne
into the rear car by two brakemen, and loft in
charge OF a lad of fourteen years, who proved ~
be her sole attendant. The passengers were as
tonished that so old q on-apparently quite ..
hundred years-should be moved, in winter, even
so Tar as the next station, and they gathered round
to help the boy for she was gasping Sc if fer her
last breath. Presently the fresh air and a cup Of
cold water revived the aged sufferer, and we asked
the boy why he had been left alone with such q
charge. The boy told his story in . clear manly
voice, and it was this:
1t was h' grandmother; he had brought her
thus from Greeno county, Missouri, near the Dor.
der of Arkansas and Kansas. by stage to Jeferssn
City, thence by railroad, and was taking her to
Scotland! She had come out from the old country
to die among her children, who were we'll TODD
planters in Southwestern Missouri, but she had,
taken an insane dislike to the country and nothing
would do but she must be carried to Sc, tland.--
She would receive no attentions. would not wear
the clothes that were provided for her. would not
be wnited on by the servants. Though father had
two niggers to do nothing but wait on her." would
not ride in the carriage "that cost $500 and was
brought for her pleasure from Cincinnati" She
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soul together. She had endured all but death in
her removal from Scotland to Missouri, but in The
first month after her arrival 'this craze came on
her and we've had ma peace since" In vain his
father--the old woman was the lads Grandmother
had expostulated and begged till his patience
and hlial love was exhausted. and he "hnd to choose
between sending tho aud one 70 the crazy house in
81 LOUIS or back to Scotland, but wad ma gang
wi her, so | came mesel."
"A wee Bit o. air-a wee bit-a wee Bit % pssp-
ca the ole woman, and we hurried to help her, for
1t really seemed that death was hero to free the
spirit from the worn and shrivellcd body. She re-.
yived n little, and we could not help asking the boy
further questions. His story was straight and owl.
IDENTIFY true. lie had u clear voice, with n metallic
ring, that rose above the din of the whirling care,
and we listened and wondered. By accident q
passenger, DR.. Cook. of the House Of Represents.
tues, believe, asked, 'and was there no cause Of
complaint whateyer?"
None, none" answered the boy, "only she cad
out she could ma breathe for the slavery, and she
} could ma die in peace for the bluid on father, and
! she must gang owre the sea and DO buried on The
hills wi the free folks 7"
Now we saw another person. The withered, old
crone WAS translated, rs it were, before our eyes.
we saw the will Of u heroic Scotch woman staying
I the dissolution of n worn.out body tina, it might
! not be lett in ground from which, in her ears, al.
most cold in death. was crying out the blood fiber
brethren! She will not yet die, her dccayed body
may no longer respond even to that sublime will,
. but the spirit will cling to its Notifying temple till
that is brought to its Highland kirk. yard, and laid
lamong the free by the free.