The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-03-30
V hole Number 1918

gtimpses ofthe true state of things began to pene
trate his BRAIN s7s F
vi ihthe approach of day the storm abated. ant
Nixon looking the very impeisonation of a crow,
l'Presen'ed himself to Mr. Herbert with the br,e
'hiofiiia'oh that Ned had run off in the night,
In reply to the planters hurried inquiries. he
proceeded to give peculiarly graphic account Of
me last nights transactions not forgetting TO state
that he had been struck by lightning and re,nnnea
tor three hours senseless on the ground from
which he had only just dragged himself to COM
municate the startling intelligence!
VI course all in and about the house were in n
state OF dismay and confusion. The slaves gath,
cred IN Little knots about the grounds, some proph-
eSJi"g Ned's speedy recapture, others vehemetly
asserting 'hat wicked demons whose howling they
had heard in the night had carried him off throu
the air. Mr.. Herbert to lk instant measures for
the recovery of his lost property. Assistance was
procured from neighborng planters, persons were
dispatched to different villages and points in the
vicinity where it was thought the fugitive MIGHT
STOP h"rses and hounds were called in reGuisition
ana every swamp and cover in the neighbofhood
| thoroughly searched. Vain and most unpro,nis
ing proved all their efforts and after spending two
entire days for nought the several aTshuniing parties
returned fatigued and out Of spirits; and Mr. Her.
pert was Obliged to content himself with ordering
hand and advertisements to be posted up and
circulated in the neighborog parishes and in towns
to the northward on the Mississippi
Constance Herbert was absent from home at
this time, circumstance for which her father felt
abundanty thankful; for he dreaded the silent re-
proaches OF her eyes more than he would have
liked to admit. Augelique stood on the balcony
when the Herbert party returned from the pnr-
suit; she heard Mrs. Grace Cartwright iuouire if
the fellow was found, and her master answer
Not yet, madam y She had seen little of Ned,
but he loved liberty, had dared everything for if.
and for that her warmest sympathiss were with
him. She turned away with a feeling of deyont
gratitude for his escape, and pictured him even
tracking his difficult way, lighted onward by the
friendly pole-star, toward the land where .fetters
fall from limbs guiltless of crime
Really if Wild Ned had only been a white
man there would seem to be something quite
heroic about him p
'Ceitainly my fiend if he had been the MASTER
ethit vi an european revolution whether success
toi or otherwise, he would have been hero and
patriot; and his praises sounded through The
length and breadth of our and.'
But niger meditating rebellion, insurrecton,
anurder-horrible! !! And then to brave the danger
OF starvation and drowning when he might have
had plenty to eat, and comfortable clothing with
out the slightest responsibility or care, if he had
only been content with the spIera to which No
ture and Scripture assigned him how foolish!
All yes, truly! Pictures differ strangely
through variations of tozoring. Let us go and in
quire the tendency of cotton
10 be Continued,