Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-05-28
Romantic Story of the .odsn Tines.


Romantic Story of the .0den Times
RebeccaR Rawson wasthe sixth daughter an.l
nlnsn chiid OF EDWARD Rawson, "the famous
secretary, who traced his descent from SIR -
lowaro lawson "a doughty knight Off,
May s3s 1856 and her life afoEScrned the
toylas romantic tale as eyssS ssS.sa in the. iag
scf fiction. She vs. ~ one 81
sbe considered herself Equitable to wed +
lord" An impudent knGye from England.
by thename of Ramsey, possessed Of pleasin.
person and attractive address, passed himself
off as Sir Thomas Hale, Jr., nephew to the
Lord Chief Justice of that name, and, as such.
paid court to the fair Rebecca, gained hoc
consent and, ''in the presence of forty wit
nesses," they were solenlnly united, '' frr.
better and for worse" by a minister Of the
gospel, on the 1st of July, 1919.
She was handsomely furnished" and
Immediately sailed for England with hcr
boxes and bundles, and her lord-her yain
| bosom swelling with pictures of the CAV
and giddy life she was t. lead at court. Ia
! due tire she safely arrived, and went on
shore in adisha lie, leaving her trunks aRA
packages to be sent after her. Early tie
| next morning, her lord took the keys ari
told her he would send up the trunks in
season for her to dress for dinner. In dGa
| time the trunks came, but with them no kev
and no husband. After waiting until lat
hour, with the greatest impatience, she bad
the trunks opened by force, and lol not an
article of any value was left in them ! lie
had decamped, stripped her OF everything
| but the dshabille in which she attired.
In inexpressih!a astonishment, she ordered
e a carriage, and drove to the p'ae' Were SD"
[ had spent the night reforr w I'll /. hushanC,
o and incurred for Sir Thcr,Hs Hale. She
) was informed that l., lad been there for
some DAYS. She was sure that Ae was there
the night before. In reply, she was tol'
that one Thomas Ramsey was there tn
night before, with young lady, but that he
had gone off that "morning to Canterbury
d to see his wife r' The news tell on her ea
e. like thanderbolt, crushing her hopes, hears
n. ndpride. Sheneyer saw him again. Aione
- -abandoned-betrayed- ed-ruined-expecting
u soon to become mother, with no funds and
ce too much pride to appeal to her friends, she
OF sought an humble abode, and with the aid
It. of her needle and pencil, for thirteen long
of wears supported herself and child in gen
of teel manner. Yearning at length 10 see her
.al friends she left her child in care of sister,
= who had come to England to reside, and
embarked for Boston, by way of Jamaica
les While at the latter port, her vessel was
or swallowed up by an earthquake, and thus
az rsaSsfthns VIII Ssasss
VI Tbisis a subject in which every farmer i
'ei deeply interested. Althoughthe law has pla!
ere ed a penalty upon. perpetrators OF thl
we nefarious crime it is obvious that the penalt
of is not sufficient to secure from many great IL
do iuries Traficking with our slaves is grea
nd er crime than stealing slave. By the la
w. ter crime, one farmer only, is injured to Il
20 amount of the slaves value. BY the torm
We crime, every farmer within the reach Of a ra
a IT, Anw nd
and many ways His property in the shape
nav hogs. cattle, corn and bacon, and pouitr
is stolen from him by his own, and the ,
the groes of his neighbors. His negroes are Ct
ov rupted and give him more trouble IN
management of them; while the negro
ou- themselves are injured thereby and made
ten to suffer the lash innoeently, by lyI
, her thieves who to shield themselves, may !
ming plicate and condemn the lnnocent. Wn
ONE the law makes death Dy hanging Iie peh..
ly of for negro steahng' we honesty penese; y
the crime of traficking with slaves. WI
MT. the poor corrupted and deluded slave, eau
wild in the act of trading his stolen goods wit
that mean, trifing, white rascal, is made to su
cy on the LASH we think that common J9sulce "o
wear also make the wnite man Wio io"eis M =
port3 sell TO 1ne eSeao, .Itn ns Ie" This Is The n
necessary, when we remember that Il
heard white men who trafick with our slaves
much most generally just such characters as
ntelE- penalty of the law cannot reach. Fine
lough OF 'nell' aIu Ir;son nc him and he lives be
about the ti nhe ho anos ~ home and the only in
fought ran;once + nuts him to, is that he ha
: girl? suspend operation for month or two
then cones cut Of Jail to renew his diabo
) keep schemes with greater cunning ana sklli
as a nenalty for this offence is mere +
Onr attention to this subject has been
ID, who ted hv being invited to attend mass
as bra ing of the neighboring farmers IN the
q she is mart Of this District, which met week
q can't last at Molasses Branch. AS many
m glad houses haa neeh efoken . opea a :. bod he,
Iheie certained, that certain white men were
nod with the negroesi in this raseality, tt
: inter mers generally mci rd ur 'ir.ensly J
of your ed to prosecute these perFc' f,'r iran
e her to with slaves. Farmers NOT ninS siaS
daenly interested in this as they {
- afford to work hard to make a supper
NV u. then be robbed by negroes, who are c
lan 'na' tad nv mean white men and persua
s, sup ;udncsd p 70 steal meat and sell il to th
one dollar per hundred pounds. We
watch and trap every suspicious lookin
believes lar of Jugs, chickens, tobacco, whiske
cd, from and should enforce the law vigorously.
has been ia too much OF this klnd Oh puslness
him day on and farmers would do well to look
nfdently to the interest in this matter. And
the door our Legislators could not better serv
neck and constituents than by adding somethlr
r. terrible to the penalty, for trafhekil
that? 1t slayes-Edgefeld Advertiser.
brother, -
be world s Hon Edward Everett bayiI
i the dead 1ol;.or II. ora.;o, ~, u
ad for the lhViteu " uoi'oi ,. n1s 49,.
the least aeter OF washington III on@lleo'
time New Orleans, says that he propo