The Republican journal., 1877-05-17

mother loved her daughter, and after all
the appeals that she could make for her
proved 70 De III VAN, she announced her
determination to 90 with her. The elders
told her that she could soon find good
situation in the world for the child,
and that she could then return to them.
About three weeks ago she came to this
city One posted III the ways of the
Shakers tells US that it is likely that all
the mother and daughter received to start
them in life after II years of servitude
with these people was not to exceed SIS.
Their life in this city appears to have
only two teatures-their inability to find
a place where they could live together
permanently and the whitening answers
that the mother must have received from
the Shakers III authority in answer to her
many appeals to let her take her child
back with them. In this woman's inner
life here there was the desperate thought
that it would be an abandonment of the
only thing she had on earth to love, to
leave the daughter here to temptation
and to the necessities that would force
themselves upon her.
The letters that She wrote appealing
for mercy tor her child and the answers
that came to them, ought to be brought
out to the light of Il world that does not
know enough, perhaps, of the practices
OF community that would send a help
less young girl out Into Il strange world
merely because She had been suspected.
An idea of what WAS going on in the
minds of these helpless ones may be
cleaned from IL letter tlat We have been
permitted to copy, tha1 was written the
night before the suicide, in the atmos-
phcre of the full determination to which
they came To lay down the burden Of life.
1t was addressed to Il toung man who
knew these people and had seen them
here. He had known them ut the Shaker
settlement and he had been kind to them
as they had to him. He had done them
some taVors here and they We're grateful
to him. On Tuesday afternoon the mother
called on him. lie knew that they left
the residence Of Mr.. Brlckley, No. 235
West Court street, where they had been
stopping Il short time, and that they We're
very Respondent. The mother did not
tell him the nature OF the letter she had
received from the elders, but he surniSed
that she had made every effort to go back
and take her child with her and that they
had failed. He made every effort to get
her to tell him where they had taken
lodgings after leaving the Bl'icklrys, hut
she world not tell him.
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DEAk--: | suppos,. Vol will be surprised at
receiving letter from me. and still more at what
it contains When saw YOU this afternoon was
too fun to rive YOU satisfaction | mast thank YOU
for your many kindnesses 10 me and mine 1t
seems like it has been INV fate, and is still to be-
an outcH,t | have ALWAYS felt that you w,r, INV
friend. but the time has come when friendship
ceases between us-vou and me-for death will
cause a separation If could recall the many
harsh words I have spoken, and oblitcratc them
from E"r DR. mGln"ry it. would be hapry @ m9ment %
back and think that in neither thought, Word nor
drrH had mafed your comfort But when my
SPHl 'N M'ile9 ON 'he 9ther Sloe' @llnG M y me Us
'r 'I, |' uNa!S Wlshru you well hH l. prSh
II my power I" &" ahythlh@ ter Y"u on ms earth,
been placed i'll situation where cond not act
my own will Let bygones he by=ones, and take
the "tI inr me itrd You remarked that you
tbt ,, ~, his MAJ .l
lays Iii dark clouds have 4 silvcr lining Mine
is s" closely envrIoped that it can not be pen"-
lIatu. ihe frlu$ai {" one 'll,& @iu 'lle flnIe OF
authority as they promised they would There is
NOT any ore VIII" : rr4ily truStw"rtn} M4f}alSi
rrof;,ssinns and t1,It;lIinr nom, If only knew
one half h;tvr gone through Vol would shed
tears Of sympathy. BHt d" not expect any one
r'i'' ll, n lLot,'3I' @ 'tr r't t, ','r TrlIIt ~
iiur When thcy HEAR Of Il. haye nothig 10
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