Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-14


On Tuesday last, our town was thrown into
a most intense state of excitement 10y what was
supposed to be a ventabe Fugitive Slave
| Case ~
iEere has been a very pretty girl here at
| tending school for t,va s.reo years past, To
whom one of the + +. VS. stands in the
double relation OF father and master. As mas
Ter, he sent her here To go to school, and as the
acknOwle iged Jather, he has paid her boardin,
and tuition
The girl is very much attached to her father,
butfron tue tact that he is engaged in buying
up slaves IN YrgnIa, and shipping them South.
she has had the good sense to refuse to return
to that State for fear she might share the same
fate. Last winter a strong effort was made to
induce her to rerurn to Vlrgiuia and larpe
promises were made to her by her father, If
she would do so; but she declined As a last
resort, her mother was sent over to persuade
her to go, but she still refused. Her mother,
on her return, was shipped Outh; the coIored
people, and others here, believing that il was
the intention to ship both mother and daughter.
if the girl could have been obtained
On the day above mentioned, the father, in
company with very hard looking customer,
both well armed with revulvers called to see
the girl. She, having iul confidence in her
ther, who had always acknowledged and trent
ed her as his dau .hter was not at all alarmed
lin fact, II is said she had written to him TO
send, or come and bring her some money-but
some OF her trends, believing hat the design
was TO kidnap her, raised such a cry of "mur.
der aud all other cries, that the town was in
stantly alarmed, and quite crowd was soon
cOugregated to ascertain the cause of the row
The Virginians solemnly protested cir pacific
lntentions-the father protesting that he had
come 10 visit the girl and pay her bills, without
any Intention OF taking her away ; that, ia fact
he had emancipated her, and in proof of this
showed what purported To be a deed of emnn-
cipaton, which he offered to give her This
iustrument, however, on examination, was found
to be of 40 validity. This fact tended TO in
crease the suspicion All things, however
would have gone off smoothly but for the fury
one OF The negroes, who had private wrong
OF his own 10 revenge.
IL seems that after the birth of the Girl in
question, her mother, with the consent of her
MASTER married this excited divldual. who
by his efforts, had bought aud paid for his own
body aud soul, and had made payment or Two
nn his wife, whose freedom he had also pur.
chased, and who was the mother Of this girl
before he purchased and ma ried her.
Tawny as his skin is he seems TO have been
somewhat outraged by the sale of his wife. af
ter he had lived with her fourteen wears. and
had partly paid for her. He claimed thai he
had other grlevances-that be had detected be
tween his wife and the gentleman sun lry nee.
cadilloes, and that according 10 the law in the
olckles case he hat a right TO kill the gentle
man, and meant TO do il Instanter
Hareupon the chiyary OF Virginia found
safety IN the house Of a cOlored man, drawing
the curtains OF the windows TO preven beipW
shot through them Here was exhibited some
OF the talest specimens ofhumbe SUBJ hcation
ever before poured forth from the fear shrivep
soul of mortal Gods men and negroes we're
implored to save him from the wrath of this fu
rlous 'chattel"
AT length, after the crowd had been excess.
iScy amused, and the Virginians scared il was
proposed that 18th parties ground their arms
and come TO truce, Whereupon the Virgin
ians surrendered their revolvers into the hands
'i E'q Lee, and the darkey his into the hands
OF sheriff smith, and the war ended
TIE VirgInians, pale aud trembling, with the
awful vision Of the terrible darkey still haunt
ing them, and accompanied by the Squire"
who was TO escort them TO "Old Virginias
shore, and there, in due form deliver 10 the
revolvers, reached the ferry, where so terribly
were they alarmed that they offered ffty dol
lars TO the fenyman il he would laud them
safely on the other side,n before the darkev
soud get at them.
We are happy to say that the Virginia gen.
leman has since sent TO his daughter a gennio,
deed o manumssion. aud she is now free -
She almost pure white, intelligent and beaut- !
iul-sueh an article as would readily sell al
from two TO five thoussnd dollars in the South. |
according 10 the abundance or scarcity Of that
style Of goods m the market s that the gen |
tleman has, according to the ethics OF slavery, |
sacrificed that amount Of property.