The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-23
"Must be Buried with the Free"

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One of the editors of the Cincinnati Com
mercial relates the following touching incl
dent. He was travelling on the cars up to
Cleveland
Imust tell you Of q rare scene that was
witnessed on the cars coming up. At Crest
line, q very aged woman, apparently IN
dying condition, was borne into the rear car
by two brakemen, and left in charge of a lad
fourteen years of age, who proved to be her
sole attendant. The passengers were aston
shed that SO old person-apparently quite
a hundred years-should be moved in winter,
even 80 far as to the next station, and they
gathered round to help the boy, for she was
gasping as if for breath. Presently the
fresh air s1d cup of cold waterreviyed the
sufferer, ana we asked the boy why he had
been left alone with such chargel The
boy told his story with clear, manly voice,
and it was this
ait 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 ScotlandI She had come cut
from the OLD country to die among her chill
drcn, who were well to-do planters in south
western Missouri, but she had taken an in
sane dislike to the country, and nothing
would do but she must be carried back TO
Scotland. She would receive no attentions,
would not wear the clothes provided for her,
would not be waited On by the servants,
"though father had two niggers to do no
th ng but wait on her" would not "ride in a
carriage that cost $500, ard was brought fol-
her pleasure from Cincinnati" She would
hardly receive food enough to keep body and
soul together. She had endured all but
death in removal from Scotland TO Missouri,
bat in the first month after her arrival this
craze came on her and we've hal no peac-
since. In vain his father-the old woman
was the la is grandmother-had expostulated
and begged ill his patience and tilial love
were exhausted, and he had to take his
choice between sending the auld one to the
craz house in st Louis or back to Scotland,
bat he ad na gang wi her. SO / came me-
self"
"a wee bit of air-a wee bit-s wee bit!''
pasped the old woman, and We hurried to
help her, for it really seemed that death was
there 10 free the spirit from the worn and
shriveled body She revived little, and
we could not help asking the boy further
quest ons. His sIroy was straight and evil
denfly true. He had a clear voice, with q
me allie ring, TINT rose above the din Of the
whirling cars, and we listened Won
dered By accident, apassenger, DR.. Cook
of the House Of Representatives, / believe
asked, ami was there nocause of complaint
whatever I"
"Nnne, none," answered the boy, "only
sha cad out she could ma breathe for the
slavery and she co Id ma die in peace fol
he bluid on father, and she must gang owre
the sea d b. buried on the hills WI the
white folks"
Now we saw another person. The with.
cred old erone was translated, as it were
before our eyes. We saw tn will of heroic
Scolch oman staying the dissol dion of a
worn-out body that it might not be left in
ground from which, in her ears, almost cold
death, was crying out the blood of her
brotheri She will not yet die her dec ,yed
body may no longer respond to that sublime
will, but the spirit will cling to its mortal
temple till this is brought to its Highland
kirk-yard. and be laid among the free by the
free.