Frostburg Mining Journal

The case of RICHARD JACKSON, the young colored man hurt a few days since in Johnson's mine, elicits general and sincere sympathy, particularly among miners, with whom he is a great favorite. He has by his urbanity and good behavior attracted the esteem of all with whom he has had intercourse. His accommodative disposition, exercised without discrimination, attached the favorable regard of white and colored, rich and poor, of those who have known and felt his favors. It is said that when brought from the mine to his home in Frostburg, a crowd of miners attended him eager to testify their friendship and sympathy for an unfortunate friend. And when, totally disabled and blind, it became known to him that he was within the yard that surrounded his home, he reached forth his hands in groping, mute supplication for the assistance of his mother, whom he supposed near at hand, but was absent, his disappointment excited so much pity that, yielding to the tearful impulse, not a dry eye remained among these hardy sons of toil. His mother finally came and now attends him as one who feels her best earthly hopes suspended upon the precarious issue of an imperiled life.