The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-03-07
ssNIust be Buried with the Free.,,

| One of the editors of the Cincinnati Com
| ,lercial, relates the following touching Incl
lent. He waS travelling ON the cars up to
Cleveland To report the procee limgs of the
| Lake Under writer's Convention, held last
week. He says:
II must tell you of rare scene that was
witnessed on the cars coming up. At Crest
inc, very aged woman, apparently ina die
ing condition, was borne into the rear car by
TWO brakemel,, and left in Charge of lad OF
fourteen years, VIII" proved to be her sole at
tendant. The passengers wee astoniSheti
that so nd person-apparentiy quite IA
hundred years should be moved, in winter.
| ven So far as the next station, and they
gathered r.und to help the boy for she was
gaspng as if Tor her last breath. Presently
he f,,esi. air and cu,.f cold water revived
the aged sufferer, and we asked the boy WHY
he had been left alone with such charge I?
The boy told his story with clear, manly
voice, and it Was this: 1t was his grant
mother: h had brought her thus from
Greene county, Missouri, near he border o!
| arkansas and Kansas, by stage to Jefferson,
city, thence by railroad, and was taking her
t Scotland She had come out from the
I'D country to die among her children, who
were well-to-to planters in South western
Missouri, but she had taken an insane dis
IKE 0 the Country, and nothing would d.
but she must be carried back to Scutland.-
She would receive no attentions, would not
wear the clothes provided for her, would not
be waited upon by the servants, "though
father had two niggers to do nothing but
wait on her," would not ride in the carriage
shat cost $3.50 and was brought for her
pleasure from Cincinnati" She would hard
Iy taAe enough food to keep body and soul
| together She had endured all but death in
the removal from Scotland 10 missouri but
in the first month alter the arrival ''this
craze came on her and we've had no peace
since" In vain his father-the old woman
was the lads grandmother-had expostula-
ted and begged till his patience and filial
love was exhausted. ard he chad to choose
between sending the old une t. the crazy
nouse in It. L,uis or back to Scotland, hut
he wad ma gang WI her, so | came m sell"
GA wee bit o. ara wee bit-a wee bit %
gasped the old woman, and we hurried to
nelp her, for it really seemed that death wa
there to free the spirit from the worn and
shrlvelled body. She revived a little, and
we could not help asking the boy further
t"N"e'O''S' AA'' SS''y """ -"e C'i-
Iently true. lie had clear voice. with me.
,alic ring, that rose above the din Of the
whirling cars, and we liste ed and W ndered
BY accident a passenger DIR. Cook, of the
| House of Representatives, | believe, asked,
and was there no complaint whatever
"Nonc. none," answered the boy, "onlv
she could M breath for tie slavery, and she
could ma die in peace for the blud on father
Il, =,
on the hills wi the free folks !"
| Now we saw another person. The with
e: ed old crone was translated, as it were.
before our eyes. We saw the Will OF an he
roic Scotch woman staying the dissolution ni
- WORKOUT body that it might not be left in
.round from which, in her ears almost coli
in death, was crying out the bio 81 Of her
brethren! She will not die yet her decay
Ell body my no longer respond even t" that
sublime will, but the spirit will cling to its
qualifying temple till that Is brought to it's
Highland kird-yaid, and laid among the free
Nv the free.