The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-15

rifle on his knee, ready to defend
his patient from the midnight assas-
sin CT some chivalrous southern.
At length the brother and sister
were able to start for the north, be-
ing furnished part of the way with
q military escort. AS soon as they
reached q region of safely, the fear
fnl nervous tension by which Mrs.
Willis had kept up gave way, and
she rapidly approached her end.
Chrenic dread of evil from murder
ers became q burden too heavy for
her. In her last illness she would
wake, look around her half bewil-
dered and alarmed, then close her
eyes again, and on opening them
again and recognizing her friends
would say weakly, eyes, l know
you'll am not afraid of you-you
are Marshall's friends ;" and like q
sOOthed child she would lie quietly
down to rest.
And so the weary wheels at last
stood still. Her husband, her broth
er, and her sisters and their hus-
bands all sleep in southern graves,
and every male relative was muir
only surviving brother was unable
to do anything for her except to
weep. A nurse must have hands
and be able to walk. No wonder
she died without dread. Shc was
too weary of human cruelty and
wrong to desire to remain longer
here. She sent word to her mother,
now in New England, that she had
no fear of dying. She gave her last
request to her friends, and then de-
parted, let Us trust, to "Where the
wicked cease from troubling and
the weary are at rest"
We are sometimes accused of
Haunting the bloody shirt for polit-
ical effect; of reviVing memories
which ought to sleep in forgetful-
ness; of dragging before the start
led and unwilling eyes of this age
the CHASTITY skeleton OF horrors
which, but for our persistence,
would have been forgotten before
now.
But this to-day is no mere memo
ry. This is no buried horror just
now newly exposed for tragic effect.
This woman, whose weary body we
now carry to a new made grave, lie
almost AZ much the victim of south
ern cruelty, as though some assas-
sins bullet had pierced her heart
They have killed her. They have
loaded her with horrors until heI
frail body could endure it no lon
ger. Indianapolis is called to-day
to the task of burying one of the
victims OF southern hate, and the
victim is q woman. And what oil
her only surviving relative2 Is this
some ancient terror? Some forgot
ten wrong but just now restated fol
effectp His wounds are not yet heal.
to be CHASTITY. Scarcely three months
ago he was as well as any of re, and
now he is so helpless that he cannot
wipe away his own tears.
And this is America-"The land
of the free and the home of the
braYel" the land whose historic
boast has been its southern chivalry
the land where men can think what
they please and speak what they
think; the land where more hai
been said about freedom and the
rights of man than has been said in
all other nations since time began
Oh, how the eloquence of these
mute lips, and these handles arms
rebuke and seattle us in our boast
ing. Our talk of freedom is q sar.
casm. These white lips do mock al
US. Freedom for the south yet waits
its natal day.
am sure only say what these
lips would say could they speak
and only what this brother will ap
prove, when I ask, not as q partisan
but as q man, has the time come fol
US to elevate this prescription int
power2 Shall we dare, with thes
facts before US, to enthrOne the pol
itical principles with which thes,
assassins are identified Shall W.
give such gigantic and blood,
wrongs as these the sanction of
political victory2 1t becomes US t,
consider the question, not as parti
sans, but as men who love freedom
and as Christians who love God.
In conclusion the reverend ger
tleman spoke q few words of tende
sympathy to Mr.. Twitchel!, VIII
was present in the room, utterl
helpless, waited upon by q FRIEND
: who was compelled to minister {
him in the most trif1ing matter
+ During the remarks of Mr.. Baylil
t an almost painful silence prevailed
expressive of the profound interel
; felt by all present. Every eye WIS
melted to tears, and in all prope
t ways the deepest sympathy was ez
: pressed for the gentleman who WIS
! called to pass through such q tryin
: ordeal of suffering.