Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-09-10
General iHtscfllanu.
A ROMANCE IN REALLIFE--SLAVERY
AND FREEDOM.

below, from the Chicago Democrat, and now
repubish it in order to give the sequel, from
the New Bedford Mercury
Something like six weeks SINCE there ar
rived in this city young man named George
T. Eve who brought with him as his reputed
wife beautiful mulatto woman, and three
children Of whom we believe he claims the
paternity. The woman is nearly white, and
the children so white they would not be
thought otherwise by any one not oonyersant
with their origin.
Their previous history partakes strongly Of
the romantic. They were it seems formerly
residents Of Rome, Randolph county, Georgia.
and she slave when he first became acquaint
ed with her A short acquaintance ripcncd
into what they called love- but his relatives
termed it infatuaton For a long time every
effort was made by his friends to overcome
bis affection for her, but in vain, and at last
all but his father consented to their marriage.
lie accordingly bought her at the extraordin-
ary price Of $1,000, married her, and they
came North together.
Uupon his arrival here he commenced the
practice Of medicine, his office and dwelling
rooms being at the same place, No. l2l South
Clark street Though young and unknown,
yet he might ultimately have succeeded, more
/ especially as he had some $4,000 or $780,
600 worth Of property in his own right left
him by his grandparents, upon which he might
have lived, with economy, until he could build
himself mp reputation.
But on Wednesday last he received line
through the post Office. stating that if hc
would call at room No G2 fremont House.
he would there find an old acquaintance. lie
/ went and to his infinite surprise, stood face
TO face with his own father. A long convcr-
sation ensued, and finally he was told that he
must remain with him. Not knowing his
, own right, and that his father had no more
control over his actions than perfect stran-
/ ger, he sobbngly consented couple of
men. who either were, or represented them
solves 20 be officers were accordingly called
he was placed in a hack with them, and they
drove 70 his residence.
Upon their arrival, ono of them asked him
I for the keys of his trunk, which were unro-
4 sistngly given up. The officer then opened
the trunk. took out all the money he had
lsome 5000 in gold, which remained Of about
about $1,000 with which he left tho south
e packed up a few of his clothes, and ere his
friends in the city knew aught Of the affair,
, the entire party were on their way South
r ward, leaving his wife pcnniless, stranger
among strangers, with "A helplcss family ON
her hands. We learn from her that his father
Dr. Paul Eve, is Professor Of Anatomy and
p Physiology in some College in Nashville,
Tenn. and that he has probably taken him
, thithcr. - Chicago Democrat. Jdy 81.
1t appears now that the father Of the hero
of this romance anxious to have him cstrang-
ed from the influences of his dear Dcliah, has
taken him to New Bedford, where he is max
ing, rather has already made, an effort to
send him off on a three OF four years whaling
cruise; but the young man says he "iront
4 90, as viii be seen by reference to the fol-
lowing communication, which we clip from
RI the New Bedford Mercury of the 26th inst:
s Mr.. EpIroR-Sir: Through the columns
of the Wcrcary desire to make brief state
1 ment in reply to certain articles which have
boen recently published in the newspapers
concerning me On Monday, the 26th ult,
my father, DR. Paul Fitzmons Eve, OF Nash
vile, Tom. accompanied by one of his
friends from the same place, arrived in Chica-
! go, where as man of proper age, as an unoi-
u Tending citizen, and as an unobtrusiyc ply
sican, | was quietly earning an honest iveli-
L hood As have since heard, the sole object
Z of their visit was to find me, Il having been
there but a month or so, and force me TO do
G my fathers bidding. Two days after their
- arrival ! received a line through the post Of
S fee stating that if l would call at room No.
G 90 fremont House, | would find friend, and
c upon going there, was greatly surprised to
, meet my unexpected father, who peremptorily
i ordered me to return with him to Tennessee.
I objected he said he had orders from the
Governor Of Georgia (my native Sta,e) to
take me, and that it was entirely useless for
me to parley or demur was then ordered
,r to accompany to my house two men, who rep
= resented themselves rs detective policemen
I L. ! Al
of my trunk from which they took two hhnd-
1 red dollars in gold. | was next ordered to
- lay hold of my trunk. and did so. Unwilling
to leave so abruptly, | expressed ms desire to
!, speak to Julia, the slightly coored lady who
2 was keeping house for me- but the men, hire
Hngs,) under instructions from my father,
- hurried me off; and so, under the arbitrary
~ control of my father, ! have been spirited
away to this city, where, under all the cir
- cumstanccs--of a nature too complicated and
. delicate to explain here-I confess myself,
y for the time being, in rather an unpleasant
predcament. But "al is well that ends we'll.
| have found friends here who will not see
= me imposed upon and if | succeed in recov
a ering money now due me in the hands Of a
citizen of New Bedford, whom my father puts
under pledge to send me off on whaling
. voyoge, the probability is that | will return
= to Chicago within few days.
bought Julia and her three children in
Floyd county, Georgia. for seven thousand
r. dollars, $1,000 and took them with me to
n Chicago. According to Southern law, they
+ we're my property, and contend that it be-
n longed to no one to deny my right to confer
! on them the boon of freedom having paid
n for them out of my own Legitimate means
c On the 7th inst, before Judge Pitman, Of
) this city, and Mr.. Hinton X. Helper, of North
a Carolina, executed paper manumitting the
It four slaves, and that paper is either now on
II its way to, or has been already received at
5 Chicago. My father paid the two mon, who
\ represented themselves as detective policemen,
o forty dollars for their services. Father is
k much mistaken when he says that Julia is
It greatly my senior in age, and that she enticed
e me away from home. There is probably not
n more than six months difference between her
age and my own.
II Julia was not desirous of going to Chi
It cago she accompanied me there in accor-
e dance with my special advice and request