A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions: With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown Mclean ... the Pretense of Insanity (Classic Reprint)

Feeling that the public is very much deceived concerning the reatment and situation of a poor afflicted class of the human family, ivho are placed in the McLean A ssylura at Charlestown, by their relatives, and are left in the hands of strangers, subjected to the treatment of those whose hearts are hardened by being long accustomed to human suffering, and who are ignorant and unqualified, I will expose this matter to the public, in behalf of the afflicted, in connection with the awful, brutal outrage that has been committed upon me in consequence of indisposition resulting from hard labor and persecution, so the public may be warned against placing their friends here, especially if they would not have them ill-treated or suffer unnecessarily. First, 1shall give a short sketch of my life down to the time when I was carried to the Hospital then an account of the crime in connection with the treatment 1received there, until I was taken out. (feel that this should particularly interest the christian world ;but vhether it is believed or not, I am determined to publish it, that the people of God may take care of their own people in time of persecution at the expense of ones life, whether father, mother, brother, or sister step in between. The unconverted do not understand spirituality, therefore a weak, persecuted christian should not be consigned to their hands. If others who have suffered this cruelty before me (as Dr. Fox says that both male and female christians have been destroyed there before) had published and exposed the xicked crime to the world,! might have been saved from suffering here and hereafter. I is covered up under the garb of derangement, but I am willing to let the world know it, that others may be saved irom these awful outrages of the wicked at the present day. I know that the world iw general is ignorant of this crime of the fact that Docto
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