The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-18
Mrs. Lydia Maria Childs.

NH"hlOi VI odit tbI lpIdllOU.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Childs.
The telegraph announced some time
ago that Massachusetts lady, a Mrs.
Childs, had obtained permission to remain
with and wait on John Brown whilst in
prison. We gather from speech made
IN New York on the lst inst, by Wendell
Phillips. that Mrs. Lydia Maria Childs is
the lady. Phillips says-speaking of the
arrest of Brown
The first person who came to me to
speak OF the news when it reached Bos-
ton, was Lydia Maria Chlds. She saws
that the dungeon is no place for him in
his present condition. She writes q let
ter to Governor Wise She saws John
Brown is a hero. and he has done n great
deal for liberty: he is sick and wants some
one to nurse him. think slavery is a
sin, and John Brown saint. She asks
permission of Gov. Wise to nurse him.
She sends alSoa message to Brown and
charges him on his honor to deliver it.
The message to Brown was: "Old man,
God bless you. you have done a mighty
work" The struggle was n hard one. the
difficulty was great, but the lady's request
has been granted by WISE. She may 90
in to watch over and nurse the old man.
John Brown has conquered.
Behind the dim unknown
God Keeps watch above his own.
An exchange says Mrs. Childs has ac-
quired some notoricty in the East. She
belongs to the select cotcrie of pious fc-
male fanatics represented by Harriet
Beecher Stowe, who have "A holy horror of
the sirfulness of slavery; and who, in
contemplating through the medium of
their distorted fancics the wrongs and
suiicrings of black people, forget that
there are white people around them
whose condition is worse. and whose real
miscries demand Immediate relief. She
| had better remain in Boston and wait up
on the patient sufferers of her own sex,
to be found there. II she would turn her
attention to that kind of work. she
might become better woman, and do
some good in her day and generation.
A Story for Boys.
! 1t is related of a Persian mother. that
on giving her son forty pieces of silver a.
! his portion. she made him swear never to
| tell lie. and said
Go. my son; consign thee to God
and we shall not meet again here till the
day of judgment"
| The youth went away and the party ho
travelled with. were assaulted by robbers.
One fellow asked the hoy what he had
| and he answered:
Forty dnars are sewed in nv gar
ments."
The robber laughed, thinking that the
boy iested, .....
Another asked the same question, and
received the same answer.
A last, the chief called hin and asked
him what he had. The boy replied:
Il have told two of your people alread,
that had forty dinars sewed up in my
Clothes"
The chief ordered the clothes to bt
ripped open, and the money was found.
And how came you to tell ths?"
" Because" replied the boy, would
not be false to my mother, to whom
promised never to tell lie."
Child" said the robber. /" art thou 81
mindful of thy duty to thy mother at thy
years, and am insensble at my age o
the dutyI owe 10 God? Give me tn,
hand, that | may swear repentance omit
He did so. and his fellows were strucl
with the scene.
You have been our leader in guilt.
they said to the chief" be the same i,
the path of virtue" and taking the boy'i
hand, they took the oath of repentance
on it.
There is moral in this story, which
goes beyond the direct influence of thu
mother on the child. The sentiment in
fused into the breast of child is agar
transferred from breast to breast.