The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-09-20
A First Family virginian and Daugh

| OH L lucs udE iHst, our toWH Was lHToWH
into most intense state of excitement BY
what was suppose TO be a veritable "Fu
gilive Slave Case"
There has been very pretty girl here
attending school for two or three years past
to whom one of tho Il. +. VS. stands in
the double relation of father and master
As master he sent her here to 90 TO school
and as The acknowledged father, he has
paid her boarding and tuition.
Tho girl is very much attached TO her
father, but from tho fact that he is engag
cd in buying mp slaves in Virginia, and
shipping them South, she has had the good
sense to refuse to return to that State foy
fear sho might share the same fate. Last
winter strong effort was made TO induce
her to return to Virginia, and large prom
ises were madc to her by her father, il
she would do SC (; but she declined. AS a
last resort, her mother was sent over TO
persuade her to 90, but she still refused
Her l1other on her return, was shipped
South; the colored people, and others here,
believing that it was the intention to ship
both mother and daughter, if the girl cod
have been obtained.
On the day above mentioned, the faith
er, in company with very hard looking
customer, both well armed with revolvers,
called to see the girl. She having full
confidence in her father who had always
acknowledged and treated her rs his daugh-
ter, was not at all alarmed-in fact, it is
said she bad written to him to send, or
come and bring her some money-b but
some of her friends, believing tina, the de-
sign was to kidnap her, raised such cry
of "Turder," and all other cries, that the
town was instantly alarmed, and quite n
crowd soon congrogated to ascertain
the cause of the row. The Virginans
solcmnly protested their pacific intentions
tho father protesting, that he had como
to visit the girl and paw her bills, without
any intention of taking her away; that, in
fact, he had omancipated her, and in proof
of this, showed what purported to be
deed of emancipation, which ho offered to
give her. This instrument, however, on
examination, was found to be Of no valdi.
". This fact tended to increase the sus.
picion. All things, however, would have
gone off smoothly but for the fury of one
of the negroes, who had a private wrong
of his own TO revenge.
1t seems that after tho birth Of the girl
in question, her mother, with the consent
Of her master, married this excited indi-
vidual, who had bought and paid for his
own body and soul. AMI had made pay
t,,A IL
he had a'so purchased, and who was the
mctler of this girl before he purchased and
married her.
.awmv rs his skin is. he seems to have
been somewhat outraged bv the sale Of his
wife, after he lad lived with her fourteen
yeas, anl had patty paid for her. He
claimed that he had other grievances-that
he had detected between his wife and the
gentleman snndry pcccadiloes, and that
according TO the law in the Sickles case h
had rig t, Nil the gentleman, and
meant to DO it instanter.
Icreupon the chvalry of Virginia found
safety in the house of a colorcd man, draw
ing the curtains OF The windows to prevent
bc;n" shot Through them. Here were ex.
hibited some of the tallest specimens Of
tumble su2plication ever poured forth from
the fear shrivcn soul of mortal. Gods,
men and negroes were implored to save
him from the wrath Of this furious "chat
tel"
At length, after the crowd had been ex-
cessiycly amascd, and the Virginians scared
1t was proposed that both parties ground
their arms and come to truce. Where
upon the Virginians surrendered their re-
vovc's into the hands OF Squire Lee, and
the darkev his into the hands of Sheriff
Smith, and the war ended.
Tho Vrginians pale and trembling with
the awful vision of the terrible darkev still
haunting them, and accompanied by the
esquire" who was to escort them to "Old
Nirgsia's Shore and there in due form,
delivered up the revolvcrs, reached the fer
ry and SO terribly were they alarmed that
they offered fifty dollars to the ferryman if
he would lanI them "safely on the other
side" before the darkey could get at them
We are happy to say that the Virginia
gentleman has since sent to his daughter
genuine deed Of manumission, and she is
now free She is almost pure white, in
te!ligent and bcauliful-such an article as
readily sell at from two to five thousand
dollars in the South, according to the abun-
dance or scarcity Of that style of goods in
the market So that tho gentlemen has,
according to the ethics of Slavery, sacrificed
that amount of property.