Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-01-29

LHE MICHIGAN AMAL:iAMArtoN CASE-IHE
REruRS EioHE-The Dedroit Free Press
gave us All account, the other day, Of a young
lady, we'll raised, well educated, and the
daughter Of man OF wealth, clipping from
near Joliet, Michigan with a negro, going to
Windsor. Canada, and by legal process be-
coming his wife. The same paper relates
the sequel-the deluded girls return home,
through the persuations Of her father, bnt
only on the exacted promise to the girl that
her .liege Ior.l' should have the privilege TO
call whenever he placed. lparentheticaIy,
it should not be forgotten, Or the moral will
be lost, that the parents OF the girl were red
hot A Abolitionists, and had educated the belief
IN the minds of their children that there
should be 40 distinction OF races on account
Of colorl The Free Press says:
We saw the father and brother at the De-
trclt and Milwaukee depot, where they were
waiting for the cars. ard, at the request .!
the former. conversed with the girl. She is
good loo king. Intelligent young woman, Of
somewhere near twenty years OF aye, per-
and wet, aware OF the li.hei in which it is re-
garded by the community. from her con-
versaton and manners it Is evident that she
has been well brought up: all OF which is'di-
cations only tend to render more unaccount-
able the course she has openly and willingly
taken. She vas not disposed to be very
communicative at first, but finally overcome
her reserve and told the story as 1t undoubt
ediy IS. She SAID she ran away with the
I.eglo because she loved him, and thai she
intended to 20 back to HAN ii she got a
chance. This came out very HAT, and was
titiqueslonably meant. Ill regard to certain
Inducements to the act which have been al
legged by her Enly-such a previous love
affair in which she was thwaried by her pa
rents, and thus driven to the present denoue
nent from spite--she luadt no Eesitacy in
declaring such ins,nuatlons false, saying that
she liked 10, her ebony lover, better than she
did any other man, OF ever should. She ac~
kuvw!tdseu thar ii she had been told Il few
years ago that she would do such a thing she
would have epelled the ASSERTION with indig-
nation, yet she had done it without any such
feeling. the matter l1a>ing come about. she
hardly knew how, lmpe1ceptlbly; perhaps, |
but quite paasurably |
She said that her parents were perfectly |
aAaEE Vi tuc IiltlaiasJ T1t1SA t%lslSu JEW
herself and the uegro. How much she lnten-
ded to convey by the remark We are unable
to say. aud give them the benefit OF asstre4-.
uous denial o1 the fact. The lather says he
never suspected She says, further. that 10 |
was very eonsiderate, and did not want her to
leave home unless she chose to do SO. He |
told her, however, that he should never be
happy without her, aud she, who could not
endure to be s4ooel in vain by such devoted |
lover, consented. The matter was so planned |
that le trunk and bssnl-boxes We're ABSTRACT
ed from the house beforehand. two OF three
days being occupied in their safe Transported
ton to the depot. Uf the publicity that was |
to ersue she never dreatIlets, imagining IN her
ignorance that 1t would lot go beyond her |,
ianl!:y and the Immediate neigEiborhood -
She was perfectly aware that alter she had !
committed the act she would not be received !
into decent society again, but was willing to |
un>sergo all " hat the father proposes to do |
with tler when he gets her back to Pontiac,
we do not know, but the state OF feeling |
there IS such that she will lind very cool |
reception, while the negro would probably
receive a tassins and teatherlns.