The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-12-01


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We need not say that this cool invitation of the
good Quaker was not accepted by the STAKEHOLDER
George, IN the mean time had been taken to
/ Friends dwelling some miles away, where, after
laying aside his femnle attire, and being snuolv
dressed up in straigbt-colared coat, and pauta-
looms to mitch, was again put on the right road
towards Canada. Two weeks after this found
him in the town of ST. GATHERINGS, working on the
tarm of Colonel Strut, and attending night
| school.
George, however did not forget his promise TO
use all means in his power TO get Mary out of
| slavery. He. therefore, labored with all his might
TO obtain money with which to employ some one
to 60 back to Firginia for Mary. After nearly six
monshs' labor at St. GATHERINGS, he Employed an
| English missionary to go and see if the girl could
| be purchased, and at what price. The mission
ary went accordingly. but returned with the sad
Intelligence that on account of Mury's aiding
George to escape, the court had compelled Mr..
Green TO sell her out of the State, and she had
been sold to Negro trader and taken to the New
| Orleans market. AS all hope of getting the girl
was now gone, George resolved to quit the Amel-
|
sage in a vessel laden with timber bound for I.iv-
erpoo, ard IN five weeks from that time he was
standing on the quay of the great English seaport.
With little or education, be found many difficult
ties IN the way of getting a respectable living
| However, he obtained situation as porter in
large house in Manchester, where he worked du,
ring the day, and took private lessons at night
In this way he hbored for three years, and was
then raised to the situation of Clerk. George was
so white as easily TO pass for white man, and
being somewhat ashamed of bis African descent,
he never once mentioned the fact of his having
been slave. He soon became partner in the
firm that employed him, and was now on the road
to wealth
| In the year 1942, just ten years after Geo.
Green fdr he adopted his masters nancy arrived
in England, he visited France, and spent scme
days at DunkrK.
1t was towards sunset, warm day in the
month Of October, that Mr.. Green, after strolling
some distance from the Hotel de Leon, entered
a burial ground and wandered long alone among
the silent dead, gazing upon the many green graves
and marble tom6stones of those who once moved
on thu theatre of busy life, and whose sounds Of
around was hushed in silence, and seemed to par
take Of the general melancholy which hung over
the quiet resting place of departed mortas. After
tracing the varied inscriptions which told tho char
| acter and conditions of the departed, and viewing
the mounds beneath which the dust of mortality
slumbered, he had now reached a secluded spot
near TO where aged weeping willow bowed its
thick foage to the ground, as though anxious to
hide frcm the scrutinizing gaze of curiosity the
grave beneath it. Mr.. Green seatad himself upon
a marble tomb, and began to read Roscoes Leo x,
a copy of which lie had under his arm 1t was
then about twilight, and he had scarcely read half
a page, when he observed lady dressed in black
leading boy some I've years old up one of the
paths; and as the ladys black veil was over her
face, he felt somewhat at liberty to eye her more
closely. While looking at her, the lady gave
scream and appeared to be in fainting position.
when MIR. Green sprang from his seat in time to
save her from falling to the ground. At this mo-
ment an elderly gentleman was seen approaching
with rapid step, who, from his appearance, was
evidently the lady's falher, intirately con-
nected with her. He came up, and, in a confused
manner, asked what was the matter Mr. Green
explained as we'll as he could. After taking up the
smelling bottle, which had f lien from her hand,
and holding it a short time to her face, she soon
began to revive. During all this time the l4dy's
veil had so covered her face, that Mr.. Green had
not seen it. When she had so far recovered as to
be able to raise her head, she again screamed, and
fell back into the arms of the cd man. 1t now ap-
peared quite certain that either the counenance of
George Green, some other object, was the
r.I-- r
man, thinking it was the former, in rather petu-
lent tone, said, Il will thank you sir, if you will
leave US alone.'' The child whom the lady was
leading had now set up squall; and amid the
deathke appearance of the lady, the harsh look of
the old man, and the cries Of the boy, Mr.. Green
| left the grounds and returned to his hotel.
Whilst seated by the window aud looking out
upon the crowded street, with every-now and
then the strange scene in the graveyard wildly
before him, Mr.. Green thought Of the book he had
been reading, and, remembering that he had left 1t
on the tomb, where he had suddenly dropped it
when called TO the assistance of the lady, he i'm
mediately determined to return in search of it..
After walk of some twenty minuIes, he was
again the spot where he had been an hour be-
fore, and from where he had been so unceremon-
ously expelled by the old man. He looked in vain
for the books it was nowhere to be found: nothing
save the buquet which the lady had dropped, and
which lay halfburied in the grass from having been
trodden upon, indicated that any one had been
there TINT evening. MIR. Green took up the bunch
of flowers and again returned to the hotel
After passing sIeepess night, and hearing the
clock strike six. he dropped into a sweet Sleep
from which he did not awake until reused by the
rap of servant, who, entering tho room, handed
him a note which as follows:-
"SIR: owe an apology for the inconvenience
to which you subjected last evening, and if
you will honor with your presence to dnnerto
day at four o'clock, shall be most happy to give
you due satisfaction. My servant will be in wait