The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-01-24
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENTS.
LETTER FROM MRS. MASON, OF VA, TO L.
MARIA CIlILDS.

FROM MRS. MASON, VI "a, ~ lie
MARIA CnILDs.
Afro. King Georges Co, Va, Nov. II. 1850.
Do you read your Bible, Mrs. Child p
If you do, read there, "NVoo unto you,
hypocrtes," and take to yourself with
twofold damnation that terrible sentence !;
for, rest assured, in the day Of judgment
it shall be more tolerablc for those thus
scathed bv the awful denunciation Of the
Son of God, than for you. You would
soothe with sisterly and motherly care the
hoary murderer of Harpcr's Ferry! A
man whose aim and intention was to incite
the horrors of seryile war-to condemn
women of Your own rae, ere death closed
THEN eyes on their suiferings from violence
and outrage, to sec their husbands and
fathers murdered their children butcher
cd, the ground strewed with the brains of
their babes. Tho antccedents of Browns
band prove them to have been the off
securing of the earth; and what would
have been our fate had they found as many
sympathizers in Virginia as they seem to
have in Massachusetts?
Now, compare yourself with those your
sympathy" would devote to such ruthless
ruin, and say, on that sword of honor,
which never has been broken" would you
stand by the bedside of an old negro, dy-
ing Of hopeless disease, to alleviate his
suilcriugs as far as human aid could >
Have you ever watched the last, lingering
illness of comsumptiy9, to sooth, as far
ms in you lay, the inevitable fate? Do
YOU soften the pangs Of maternity in those
around you by all the care and comfort
you can give! Do you erieyo with those
near YOU, even though their sorrows re.
suited from their own misconduct Did
you ever sit up until the ''wee hours to
complete a dress for motherless child,
that she might appear on Christmas day
in new one, along with her more fortu-
nate cnmraniouss Ke do these and more
for our servants, and why? Because we
endenyor TO do or dwty an the state Of life
it has pleased God 10 place as. In His
revealed word VIC read our duties to them
theirs to US are there also-"Not only
to the good and gentle, but to the for
ward.'- (Petcr, ii: ls.) Go thou and
do likewise, and keep away from Charles
town. If the stories read in tho public
prints be true, of the suiferings Of the
poor Of the North, YOU need not go far
for objects Of charity. Thou hypocritc!
tnke first the beam out of thine own eye.
then shalt thou see clearly t. pull the mote
ont of thy nciglbor'-." But if, indeed,
you do lack Objects Of sympathy near YOU,
90 to jefferson County, to the family Of
George Turner, noble, true hearted man,
whose devotion to his friend (Col. Wash.
ington) causing him to risk his life, was
shot down ike dog, Or to that of old
Beckham, whose g,cf at the murler of
his negro subordinate made him necdIcssly
expose himself To the aim OF the assassin
Brown. And when YOU can equal in
deeds Of oye an ! Charity to those a ouad
YOU, what is Shown ly niac-tcntlls of the
Virginia plantations, then 10y your "sym.
pathy" whct the knives for our tlroats and
kiudle the torch that fires our homes. -
i'ou reverence Brown for his clemency to
his prisoners. Prisoners. and how taken?
Unsuspccting workmcn, going 10 THEN
daily duties; unarncd gentlemen, taken
by six mon d uhly and trchly armed
Suppose he had hurt Il hair of their heads,
DO you think one Of the band Of despera-
docs would havo left the engine house
alive? And did not lie know that lis
treatment Of them was his only hope Of
life then, or Of clemcncy afterward? OF
cousc he did. The United States troops
could not have prevented him from being
torn limb from limb.
will add in conclusion, no Sonthosnor
ought after your letter to Gov. Wise and
to Brown, to read line Of your compost.
ton, or to touch magazine which bears
your name in It's list of contributors; and
in this We hope for the sympathy" at
least Of those at the North who deserve
the name of woman.
NJ ~ M,zn,-