M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-01-13
The Michigan AmaiRnmatiOn
Case-T,he Return Home.

The Michigan AuaiRamatiCn
Case-The Return Home.
The Detroit bee Press gaHe US
nm account the other day Of young
lady well raised, we'll educated, and
the daughter Of man Of wealth, elop.
ing from near joliet, Michigan, with
negro, going 70 Windsor Canada.
and by legal process becoming his
wife. Thesame paper relates the
sequel--the deluded girls return
home, through the persuasion of her
father, but only on the exacted prom.
ise to the girl that her 'liege lord
should have the privilege to call
whenever he pleased. (Parentheti-
cally it should not be forgotten, or the
moral will be LOST, that tho parents
ofthe girl were red.hot aboIitionists,
and had educated into the minds OF
their children that there should be no
distinction ofraces on account Of col.
or) The Free press says:
We saw the father and brother at
the Detroit and Milwaukee Depot,
where they we're waiting for the cars
and, at the request Of the former, CON
versed with the girl She is good.
looking, intelligent young woman,
Of somewhere near twenty years of
age, perfectly senible ofthe nature Of
her position, and we'll aware ofIhe
light in which it is regarded by the
community. From her conversation
and manners it is evidenr that she
has been well brought up, all Of which
indications only tend to render more
accountable the course she has openly
and Willingly taken. She was not
disposed to be very communicative at
first, but finally over came her reserve
and told the story as it undoubtly is.
She said she ran away with the negro
because she loved him, and that she
intended to 20 back to him if she cot
a chance. This came out very fat.
and was unquestionably meant In
regard to certain inducements to the
act which have been alledged by her
tamily-such previous love affair
in which she was thwarted by her
parents, and thus driven to the pres
ent denouement from spite-she
made no hesitancy in declaring such
iusinuations false, saying she liked
10, her ebony lover, better than she
ever did any other man, or ev-
should. She acknowledged that if
she had been told a few years ago
that she would do such thing she
should have repclled the assertion
with Indignation, yet she had done it
now without any such feeling, the
matter coming about, she hardly
knew how, imperceptibly, perhaps,
but quite pIeasurably. She said that
her parents were perfectly aware Of
the instimacy which existed between
herself and the negro. How much .
she intended to convey by the remark
we are unable to say, ,.and give them
the benefit Of strenuous denial Of
the fact. The father says he never
suspected Il. She says YurtfreT5'ttfavr
DO was very considcrate, and did not
want her to leave home unless she
chose to do so. lie told her however
that he never should be happy with.
out her, and she, who could not en-
dure to be wooed in vain by such
devoted lover consented, The mat.
ter was SO planned that her trunk and
band boxes were distracted from the
house beforehand, two or three DAYS
being occupied in their safe Transport
tation to the depot. OF the publicity
tina! was to cnsue she never dreamed,
Imagining in her ignorance that it
would not 20 beyond her family and (,
the immediate neighborhood. She was
perfectly aware that after she had
committed the act she would not be
received into decent society again but
willing to undergo all. What the
father proposes to do with her when
he gets her back to Pontiac, we do
not know, but the state Of feeling
there is such that she will find a very
cool reception, while the negro would
probably receive a tarring and feath
aripr