The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-06-30
Great Exciteme emit ma Femcroy.

On Tuesday last, our town wss thrown into
most intense state OF excitement BY what wat
supposed W be q veritable Fugitive Slave
Case"
There has been very pretty girl here attend
ing school for two OF three years past, to whom
one Of the F. f. VS. stands in the double rela.
tion Of father and master. As master, he sen,
her here TO 90 10 school. and ss the scknowl.
edged father. he has paid her boarding and
tuition.
The girl is very much attached TO her father
but from the fact that he is engaged in buying
up slaves in Virginie and shipping them South
she has had the good sense TO refuse to return 10
that State for fear she might share the same fate
Last winter strong effort was made to induce
her to return to Virginis, and large promises
were made to her by her father, IL she would do
SO; but she declined. As . last resort, he,
mother was sent over 10 persuade her TO 20. bu,
she still refused. Her mother. on her return
was shipped South the cooted people. aud 9th
ers here, believing that il was the intention to
ship both mother and daughter, IL the girl could
have been obtained.
On the day above mentioned, the father, In
company with very hard looking customer
both we'll armed with revolvers, called TO see th,
girl. She. having full confidence in her "a ,her
who had always acknowledged and treated her
as his daughter was not at all slarmed-in fac,
it is said che had written to him to send. or
come and bring her some monev--bu, some OF
her friends, believing that the design was TO kid
nap her. raised such cry Of F" murder" and all
other cries, that the town was instantly alarmed,
and quite crowd was soon congregated 10 as
certain the cause Of the row. The Virginians
solemnly protested their pacific inten tions--the
ia ther protesting that he had come 10 visit the
girl and pay her bills, without any intention OF
taking her away; that, in fact. he had emanci-
pated her. and in proof Of this, showed wha,
purported to be deed Of. emo potion, which
he offered to give her This instrument, how
ever, on examination. was found 10 be Of no
validity. This fact tended 10 increase the sus-
picion. All things. however, would have gone
of smoothly but for the fury Of one Of the ne
groes who had private wrong OF his own TO
avenge.
/, seems that after the birth Of the girl in
question, her mother with the consent OF her
master, married this excited individual who,
by his efforts, had bought and paid for his own
body end soul, and had made payment or two
on his wife. whose freedom he had also purchas.
ed and who was the mother Of this girl before
he purchased and married her.
Tawney as his skin is. he seems to have been
somewhat outraged by the sale Of his wife, after
having lived with her fourteen years, and had
partly paid for her. He claimed that he had
other grievances--tha he had detected between
his wife and the g nteman sundry peccadilloes,
and that according to the law in the Sckes case,
he had right TO kill tue gentleman, aud meant
TO do it instanier.
Hereuron the chivalry Of Virginia found safe
ty in the house of colored man. drawing the
curtains OF tho windows to prevent being shot
through them. Here was exhibited some Of tho
tallest specimens of humbls supplication ever
be- ore poured forth from the fear-shrven soul of
mortal. Gods, men aud negroes were implored
to save him from the wrath of this furious
" chatie."
At length. after the crowd had been excessive
ly amused. and the Vrginians scared, il was
proposed that both parties ground their arms
and come to a truce. VIII reupon the Vrginians
Esq Lee. and the darkey his into the hands OF
Sheriff Smith, and the war ended.
The Virginians, pale aud Trembling. with the
awful vision of the terrible darkey still haunt
ing them. and accompanied by the "Sduire,"
who was to escort them 10 "Old Virginia's shore"
and there, in duo form, deliver up their revolvers
reached the ferry, where so terribly were they
alarmed that they offered fifty dollars TO the
ferryman, il he would land them "safely on the
other side before the darkey could get at the m,
We are happy to say that the Virginia gem
ileman has since sent to hs daughter genlins
deed OF manumission. and she is now free -
She is almost pure white. intelligent and beau.
tifu--such an article as would readily sell at
from two to five thousand dollars in the South,
according to the abundance or scarcity of that
style OF goods in the market. So that the gen.
lleman has, according to the ethics Of slavery,
sacrificed that amount of property, ,-Msigs
County Democrat, Mdu Sd.