The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-18
A White Girl held as "a slave.

A w mite GIfI nCiO AS a Sftsc.
The New Orleans correspondent of the
St. Louis Leader, an ultra pro-slavery
paper, says:
lone of the principal sensations in this
vicinity since my last has been the flight
of a young and beautiful girl, claiming to
be white, from the dolnicil of negro
trader in Carrolton, and her claiming pro-
lection from the authorities at the prison
Of our adjourning parish. The case is
one Of the most mysterious that has occur
red in a long time, and there seems little
doubt on the minds of the public that
large amount of rascalty is, as yet, lying
at the bottom of it. To all appearances,
the girl is Of pure Caucasian blood, which
is what she asserts; and her story is, that
she was left an orphan by the death OF
her parents in Arkansas, and was placed
in the charge of guardian. She says
that the latter has been for some time III
California, and that she was induced to
leave Arkansas by the representations of
man that he had received instructions
from her guardian to bring her to New
Orleans, and send her to him. 1t is a
matter Of fact that the man who brought
the girl from Arkansas sold her as a slave,
and that she was purchased by trader,
who placed her in a house at Cairolton.
That he intended her for his own private
purposes there is little doubt; and i. was
after successfully resisting his first attempt
to consummate his wishes that the girl
took refuge in the parish prison of Jetfer-
son. The trader whose name is White,
has published q card, stating that he
bought her in good faith from man
named Halliburton, but that he is not
disposed to put distractions in the way
Of her obtaining her freedom, if she is
entitled to j.. The matter has not been
brought before any legal tribunal, and |
am inclined t. believe that such step is
not desired by certain parties inter
csted in it. Taking all the circumstances
into consideration, | am not inclined to
place implicit faith in the statements of
he girl, yet they may be religiously true.
AS said before, there is mystery about
the transaction which renders it peculiarly
interesting. The youth and beauty of the
girl cnlists the sympathies of all who SEQ
her and hear her story; and, it she has
been aoronged, every effort will be made
to right her.
g If she has been wronged," if she has
been deceived by designing villain, hew
horrible! If she has been persuaded to
leave her home, and then sold as slave,
| what vlliany But ifnot-ifher parents
were slaves, if her grand parents had been
kidnapped in their native land and brought
here and sold into bondage, and she thus
became q save-aIl right. Of she has
been wronged, every effort will be made
to right her." But if she was z slape,
she has not been wronged; it is justice
that she should still be held as before.
1.-The youth and beauty of the girl enlist
The sympathics of all who see her and
hear her story" Yet if she is a Stare,
her cries must pass by unheeded, she
must be returned TO her owner, ana be-
come subject. to his brutal lusts. No
matter how white, no matter if of pure
Caucasian blood, unless she can prove
She is free, she must be forever debarred
from all human sympathy. If she was a
slave, she can claim no merit in resisting
the brutal offers of her master. But if
she is not slave, alb, then what pity
What heroism. What courage.
| Behold'y YOU upholdcrs of slavery extern
sion, you Northern doaghfaces! Look,
you pro-slavcry Democrats at the fruits
Of the institution you are endcavoring to
pcrpctuate.