New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-25
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TIE Late Edmouia Highgate-Letter From
Senator Morgan.
We copy the following from the Jackson


Mr.. ED1roR-Win you do Mrs. Highgate
the favor Of publishing the following article
: IN the death of my sister, Miss EdmOnia
g. Highgate. She requests Of me that ask
you to do SO.
1t is quite repugnant to my own feelings
20 notice in the slightest degree, the bar
barOus attacks, slurs and comments of the
Herald, Clarion and others Of their sort.
They were low and contemplate enough
sion of my marriage to her sister, and slur
the character of Miss EdmOnia after her
death, when her powers to the undOing OF
the great wrong they have aided, are now
aiding in perpetuating against her, are gone,
they become vultures, tearing the flesh
flesh only-of the dove.
Can q Christian community sustain such
If, after their three months revel over my
marriage, they have been able to do me no
lasting injury OF break the faith my friends
had in me, was it chivalrOus to 60 down
into the grave of my sister, and, by SANDER
ing her, hope to point the finger of scOrn at
met The vilest towards could do no more;
the ingenuity of the devil could have been
less choice in the adoption Of means, and
content to stop with slandering me.
The article is clipped from the Syracuse
New York; Journal, where Miss Edmonia
vas educated, and where she died and now
kfcD UUIloO UcyOuU tuc pOWCIo VI IuCSC CON
ardly vultures to harm her.
Respectfully, your Obedient servant,
A. T. MORGAN.
THE LATE MISS EDMONIA G. HlGHGATE.
Poor child" was the pathetic moan of
the afectionate mother, Let me kiss my
sister," the sigh of the afflicted sister, as the
body of Edmonia G. Highgate was laid to
rest by the side of her kind father and pa
txiotic brother in lakewood Cemetery.
Yes, "Poor child" for your life has been
. constant struggle from it's beginning to
its end-little for yourself, much for
others-toiling on amid obstacles exceeding
greatly those which have borne down the
stout heart Of many man, and resting not
though envelOped in clouds Of dishearten-
ing diacouragements.
To gain an education to prepare herself
for the great work of elevating an Op-
pressed people to which by nature she was
0lightly bound, cost Edmonia much of her
pNseverance, effort and sacrifice; but her
determined and unyielding spirit was equal
- the task, and having pressed her way up
through the various grades Of our excellent
High School, graduating with honors, she
entered ct once upon her work of aiding to
elevate the race with which she was identi-
ed from the degradation and ignorance to
which it had been subjected for a century
BY this great nation.
With q zeal knowing no limit and with a
heart all overlooking with sincere desire to
be Instrumental in accomplishing SO great
work, at once she was seen from post to
post inaugurating and in prosecuting
schemes Of enlarged effort in behalf of the
slave States of the Union. The last time l
saw her previous to viewing her face in her
coffin. she occupied the platform of Conven-
tom Hall, addressing large audience in
plea of more than an hour in behalf of the
cause she had espOused. How great the
change, and how instructive the lesson it
teaches.
A few years ago, Mr.. and Mrs. Highgate
with their family, were residents OF this
city, all the children members Of my Sab
bath School from time to tiMe. After the
death Of the husband the support and edu-
cation Of the children fell upon the widow,
and to her and in Heaven alone, is known
the solicitude. toll and privatiOn it cost
The exemplary, consistent and Christian
life OF Mrs. Highgate brought to her the SYM
pathies OF many friends, especially from Ply
mouth Church, of which she was member.
The rebellion cost this parent her noble son,
who with many Thousand mothers in the
land, made the sacrifice for the life of the
nation. May the day of forgetfulness of
such sacrifices On the part of great people
noverc0me. At the earliest day it was safe
to do so, Mrs. Highgate and her three
daughters went South, entering upon the
kervice Of teaching the freedmen in various
localities in the Southern States, with what
success reference is invited to the printed
publicati0ne.
One OF the daughters became the wife of
Mr.. jackson, successful manufacturer in
the city of Albany; another the wife of
Senator Morgan. who, from volunteer pr-
vate, rose Ito the rank of colonel in our
army, doing valiant service against the re-
bellion, and is now member of the Sen
ate, in the State of Mississippi. elected for
four years. The other daughter, amid the
sorrows of many, we have just laid away
in tho family burial ground.
The event brought the family again to-
xethcr, and, though almost overwhelmed
by affection, yet the kind sympathy Of
friends, 60 largely expressed, must have
been comfort in the midst Of sorrow and
bereavement.
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