Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-07-25
Case of Sally Miller.

G-The New Orleans Tropic of the Both ut. has
the following Interesting particulars respecting a case
which was recently tried in that city. 1t verifes the
adage that "truth Is oftentimes stranger than fiction:'
SALLY M1LLER.-We have occasionally alluded to
the Singular case Of Sally Miller, whose restoration
tc liberty, by a decision Of our Supreme Court, has
produced no little lov among the Germans of This
State. a pamphlet has just been printed at this of.
flee, giving all the details of her romantic history
1t appears from the register of births, obtained bv q
merchant IN this city on a recent visit to Europe. thar
Sally Miller, or as she was registered Salome Muller.
was born in The village of Langansaultzback. Prov.
lnce OF Alsace, Department of The Lower Rhine. nm
The 10Th day of July, 1918, and of course will he
ihirty.two years Of age this month. She is The dauob.
ter of Daniel and Dorothea Muller. In the latIrr
part OF The year 1877 she sailed from Helder, in lIol.
land, with her parents, one sister aud two brothers.
tor this city, where, atte- q severe passage of four
months, she arrived in March, 1918. AT that time
II was a custom here 10 sell the Seruice of ;mm;.
grants for a term long enough to pay their Dassa nes
1t is supposed that the father wa, thus disposed of for
the payment of the passages of himself and family.
Soon alter their Arrival, they disap~peared-havino
been taken, as is presumed, from the CITY TO the Par
lsh OF AttakaPas. The father was reported TO have
died of a fever a few weeks subsequently,. The fate
OF Sally and her sister were unknown. Years clans.
ed and they were given up as dead.
About three years since, Madame Carl, a resDec.
table German woman, went into a cabaret, kent nv
one Louis Belmont in The Third Municipality. and
there recognized, in mental service, the identical Sa-
lone Muller, with whom she had crossed the Atlantic
upwards OF twenty years ago. She questioned the
girl, who replied that she did not know who were her
parents, but that she was q slave belonging to Raj.
mont, 10 whom she was sold by John F. Miuer-
Shortly after, Mrs. Carl took Sally to L,afavetse.
where her relatives reside, who instantly recognized
her as the long lost daughter Of Daniel and Dorolhea
Muller. Her recognition by others, who had emf
graled with her, was also immediate. Certain CON-
genital marks on the girls body, we'll known TO soma
oil the relatives, were also soun6. A demand w
made on Belmont for her restoration, but he refused.
Several German merchants, resident here, Interested
themselves 10 her behalf, and a suit for freedom was
forthwith instituted in the District Court, IN which
suit, though against Belmont, John +. Miller. as
warranter of title, became the real defendant.
The plaintiff, in her petition, avered that she was
while and Tree. And her personal appearance Ger.
tainly favored the averment. Her form, figure. Gea.
lures and complexion reveal no trace of African de-.
scent Though somewhat of a brunette, and her
parents were both of a dark complexion. her limo
straight black hair, hazel eyes, Roman nose and Thin
lips, strongly proclaim her origin. And il appears
that from her earliest days, she has been exposed TO
the suns rays IN this hot climate, laboring in The cot.
ton field, and enduring all the exposures of the AGri-
can slave. No one, it seems to us, can have doubts
that she is a white woman.
Miller InsIsied that she vas colored, and set up his
title from one Anthony Williams, of Mobile. as "a,
back as 1929. An attempt was made to identify a
~muIatress sIdpe named Bridget, said to have been a.
that time twelve years OF age, whom Miller alIedqe,
he had obtained of Williams, with Sally Miller. IN,
plaintiff. The evidence, however, on this point. wa,
by no means satisfactory. Miller exhibited a noioria