Newbern weekly progress., 1860-01-31
"Look at Man.en

4" henever we see zeaots and fanatics going a
long way to look up distress with which to COM
misserate we wont to say "look at home. =.
This will apply very we'll to the class spoken of
in the following article:
HoT BED PHILANTHftoPY When John Brown
lay wounded in prison, while he was being well
cared tor, both temporarily and spiritually while
ne was furnished by the authorities of Virginia
with everything he needed or wanted from chick
en- broth To his darling New York Tribune, nr-
meroHs loud-voiced Abolitionists in the North and
West were sending him delicacies good books
religious advice, requests for his autograph news
paper extracts Russian Save, Radway's Ready
Reiet and bandages for his wounds Lydia
Maria Child, nice old lady VIC suppose her to
be. wanted to visit the dear good old man in prison
wanted his head to repose on her kind BOSOM
and to smooth back the grizzly hair from his no.
ole brow wanted to tighten his pathway to the
tomb and show to the world that she felt for sor
row and trouble wherever it might be. Oh how
sympathiZing some of this class were. Promi-
nent lawyers focked to him from different parts
of the country as jackals gather where their prey
is, and begged to defend the hero and martyr !
They came to Harper's Ferry with Abolition ym-
pathy streaming from every pore, and returned
to their homes after having feeced their victim
out of all his personal property exccp: Bible
for which they had need-a few copies of his
tbUok, the Tribune, with W hch they were al
ready supplied, and brokerl-locked shotgun
which they knew not how to use. Generous Abo-
litionsts
A fac-simile of the old chaps hand writing sold
all through the North and West at the rate of two
days work, the price paid the poor white women
OF the North for making n dozen shirts, or two
bushels of wheat in Wisconsin, for pcter :
In some localities. the cheaper and less worthy
Offering of prayer that the rope might break, was
poured fourth in churches, halls, and street
corners, but the ma esty of the law, and the will
of Providence. allowed no obstacle to intervene
betwixt the crime and its penalty
A few days since, from Maine to Texas, people
held their breath while reading that cotton mill
AT Lawrence had fallen to ruins. killing and mang
ling half thousand white slaves laboring therein
4 hundred homes made sad in moment
hundreds of manned, of mangled, Of burnt, of
bruised, of crushed and bleeding sufferers Of old
men the equal of Il dozen of Browns; of young
the superior of all the Cook and Cuppic's
III the world, because they h0nOred their parents,
and sOugM to make them comfortable; of young
women whose virtue was their only capital, were
taken to the City Hall to live or die as God de-
crees.
Where now is your kind hearted l. Maria Child?
Where is she, with her overhowing heart of kind
nesS-her bosom on which to pillow the aching
head-her hands to soothe the wounded and still
the troubled bIain-her~ bundle of lint and band
ages stop blood and bind around the wounds
Echo answers here Newspaper reporters
would likely to notice her, if there; but if not God
would notice her i'll His ook of Lite-and
line there is better than a column i'll the Tribune.
w here they who prayed long and LOUD on
street corners! God is not deaf now, and surely
their petitions would stand a chance to reach the
throne if mingled with the groanes of the wound
ed. Where are the lawyers, noted for legal lore,
to step forth and test the question AS to the liability
OF the own Is OF that dead-till, the Pemberton
Mills Sure Y, there is need Uf sympathy nearer
home for these AbolitiunistS, where they do
good to suffering humanity without making them
selves obnoxious their brothers. Charity BE-
gins at home.