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Show 40 Tilt; LIBEitTY BEJ,L, He has kept alive. 1 'm glad I 'vo come, missis, _glad 1 , Nor can the St..'ttcs throw n. single stone at their Canadian sister in this matter. A year ago, a faithful elderly woman, for several years a servant in my own family, started to como from Boston to Toronto, to take charge of two infant children. Their mother, a member of the same Methodist church as herself, had, dying, left. them to her care. Her friends in Boston told her that as she was old and alone, it would be bettor for her to take a seat in tho first class cars. She did so, and roached Albany comfortably. At Albany sho bought a first class ticket for Buffalo, but after waiting several hours, after tho train had left, she was told at the office, that no first class train would leave for several days. She was too ignorant to know that this could not be true, and as freight that belonged to her bad gone on to Buffalo, she allowed herself to bo placed in an emigrant car. .A kindly German woman seated her on the top of a blue chest, and offered her rosy- A DREEZ.t: .FROM LAKE ONTARIO. 41 checked apples, to cheer the way. Her trunk, containing nearly all that she was worth in the world, was lost upon the road, and her carpet-bag was stolen from her in Buffalo, where she arrived in a flooding rain, by a man who offered to take care of it. She reached this place, lame nud heart-sick. The trunk was subsequently recovered, through my agency, but tho bag she never &'l.W again. Could "them Hits" have shown more " natural spite " than the Northern man who wilfully deluded this patient, loving child of God ? " Tho church will quake when a strong man treads its floor," said, not long ago, an eloquent friend of the Slave. So may the State, and children of tho Pilgrim Fathers, who feel the blood of tho martyred !Wgcrs, and the stalwart Miles Standish, run tingling through their veins, may well rejoice when a strong voice shakes tho walls of our Senate chamber. Right glad am I, being such an one, to recog- 4• |