Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-04
From PameFoyfs Democrat, Juas itt
HEVELs' sIsTER ELIZA.

HEvELs' sIsTEn ELIZA.
The Brother IN ne Senate and he
Sister IN NE Poor-A0nse-He g.
being LiOAizsd about he CoWH-
try, iCk7e che e Dying IN a Pau
per HoPitsl-Assi5taHce Need.
cd.
We have previously in showing
up the character ofthe negro Sen,
ator Revels, vino is travelling about
the country delivering lectures
and receiving the homage of the
Radical party, demonstrated and
proven that the honorable gentle.
man is u thief. We also posted
him as deficient in the commonest
attributes of humanity, by an
nOuncing that he Leaves his sister,
the neglected inmate Of a poor.
house, while he travels about the
country faring Sumptuously every
day. Many took occasion to
doubt the accuracy Of this state.
ment, and to satisfy them, a Dem.
ocrat reporter yesterday paid
VISIT TO The SISTER
in question. 4 hours ride from
The Democrat Office took US to
Third avenue and Sixty.hfth
street, from which point a short
walk brought US to the Colorcd
Home. This institution was
founded 70" the benefit Of INDECENT
negroes, and is mainly supported
BY State appropriations. 1t is
very pleasantly and beautifully
located on the East river, and has
as much Of an air Of comfort
about it as can be given to a poor.
house. The buildings are brick,
surrounded with pleasant grounds,
and everything about the place is
kept scrupulously clean. The
floors Of the various wards are
secured down so industriously
that one almost imagines them
dangerously thin as be walks over
them, while a bit Of dirt would be
welcomed as an oasis in the desert
OF dreary neatness. Over the
whole apparently well-kept place
there is the dreary quietness and
air of desolation SO peculiar to
charitable institutions.
We presented ourselves at the
gate of
THE CoLoRED HOME,
and there encountered a sable sen.
tinel of uncertain age, but certain
color. VIZ held a parley with this
picket, secured admittance, and
stated the object OF our visit to the
matron ofthe Home, q tall, spare
white woman, of about fifty years
of age. She readily acceded to
our wishes, and detailed a negro
woman to pilo: US to the presence
of"Aunty Revels," as she is call.
ed by her pauper companions.
A surmounting ofthree pairs Of
stairs brought us to the sick ward,
where, lying on her cot, sick and
old, surrounded by paupers as sick
and miserable as herself. lay
ELIZA REvELs, THE SISTER OF HIRAM
Il. REvELs,
United States Senator from Mis-.
sissippi. In response to our "How
do you do aunty:" she said, Not
very well, thank ye. l don't 'spect
shall live much longer, anyway.
| can't even turn over in bed, and
amt of no use to myself at all"
We told her that We had come
to have Il little talk with her, and
she said she "was'so glad cause
she got so lonesome with nobody
coming to see her, or talk to her.
During our stay ornearly an hour
she talked almost necessarily, al.
though evidently suffering bodily
pain, and seemed reluctant to have
us 90.
She says she will be sixty. three
years old in July, but her inhrmi.
ties give her the appearance Of
greater age. Her hair is white as
snow, and she has the appearance
Of the matronly negro woman to
be met with on Southern planta.
tions. She occupies a little iron
bedstead, similar to those usually
used in hospitals, one of the many
that occupy the long sick ward Of
the Home. During our interview
she gave US the following facts
about
THE REvELs FAMILY,
and we state nothing that We did
not get from her own lips. Espc-
cially shall we he particular not to
exaggerate the neglect on the part
Of her relatives, the truth being
sufficiently strong, Her parents,
Elijah and PhUbe Revels. we're
born in Georgia, and were free at
the time Of their marriage. Con
sequently none of their children
have ever been slaves. She is the
oldest of the children, and has
four brOthers-Hiram, Elijah. vii.