Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-10-25


any further measures 70 recapture them
but simply begged the neighbors 10 drag
the river for the body o his daugh,er.-
Finding, however, thai all efforts proved
Intellectual. the bereaved parents taking
their only remaining child, Julius. with
+ them, returned sad and sorrowing 10
South Carolina, whence they had come
only the year before 10 make their home
/ IN Wisconsin. They were but short
time IN Arena, occupying one of Mr.
Mohr's houses. I hat house ever since
has worn the gloom of the grave, and no
tenant has occupied it.
CHAPTER II
Mr.. Belezer had left Carolina in con-
sequence Of long standing quarrel with
one OF his neighhors, a rich planter in
ST. PEERS Paris.r. The falling out had
taken place oslensibly about line fence,
bu; really because Mr.. Belezer had been
the successful rival of Andrew Smith for
the hand Of Mary Garvin. On account
OF which Smith swore be would have his
vengeance. Although more than twelve
years had elapsed, Smith, WHO was still
a bachelor. had never ceased 10 do every
thing he could TO annoy Beiezcr, until
wearied out he determined 10 remove to
the northwest TO get so far away from his
enemy that he might lie sure OF escaping
further annoyances. But having learned
that Smith had sold out everything and
removed 10 California, he saw no reason
why he might not return to his old home :;
and having repurchased his own home
stead, he also paid good price for the
lands tina, Smith had formerly owned. to
make sure, If he should return, ot his
not again having opportunity 10 re- possess
himself OF the same residence he had
left.
Mr.. Belezer had never sold his ne
groes, he owned abou, forty) bu, on GO
ing north had hired them out. The secret
reason Of his not selling was, that be felt
there was poss'o olllty that slavery might
not be altogether right, and he feared
some future definite conviction might tor
lure his conscience, should he place i;
on, of his power % emancipa,e his re-
groes. His purpose in going TO Arena
was not indeed 10 make that point his
home, Madison being the place he had
selected for his residence, but to spend
some time In the association of Dr. Bruce.
/ formerly OF South Carolina, and who,
on account of slavery, had left The south
and having emancipated his slaves, had
/ finally seuled down a. Arena.
+ Ii Is very apt 10 be the case that when
a Southerner goes to the north, however
he may have previously been doubtful Of
the righteousness Of the peculiar insiitu-
tion. he sees and hears SO much that vio-
! la,es his own long established habits OF
/ thought, and conlradicts in so many re-
+ sPectS his ideas Of proprie,y and notably,
/ that there comes over him tremendous
/ reaction IN favor of slavery; and unless
he stays at the north long enough TO
make a thorough investigation OF The sub
leC;, and this with a fixed determination
10 arrive al the trath and to follow j, out,
he returns TO the south fully confirmed in
his old views, and with his conscience
quite at ease.
This was precisely the condilion IF
ID
quen,ly defended The Fugi1ive Slave Ac',
I the Kansas Nebraska Act, and The poli,-
ical measures of The pro-slavery party
agains; the attacks of northern dispuianis
and he had iuyelghed so much agains,
/ The ul,raism of aboiiiionists, that be over
looked what he had previously confessed
10 be the evils OF slavery. aud had finally
settled down 10 the conclusion that after
all the south had been grievously wrong
ed by The abolitionisis, charging the ''pe-
cu!iar institution and lis supporters with
moral turpitude. The loss OF his PEE
cious lille daughter adding grief to in
dignauon, he returned 10 his old home
with embiaered feelings against the free
States. and with The resolution to assis,
/ 10 maintaining what be and his slave
holding compeers are pleased to call the
rights of the SOUTH al ali hazards.
The case, however, was very differc nj
with Mrs. Belezer and her li;tle julius.
She had never INDUCED in any discussions
on the subject ,bui had frequently read qui-
ely the papers she found a; DR.. Bruee's
and they had made isep and abiding
impression upon her mind
And little book that Addie Bruce ant
Julius had perused together, full of touch
ing incidents about negro mother an,
her little chii.,. had thoroughly irnbue,
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