The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-03-14
6aurofk 9f0trsonian,
Local and Miscellaneous.

Tue FuolrivE SLAVE LAw-Iiow a cH,r-
TEL WAS TAKEN BACK AND now siiE DIDN'T
lSrAY.-Some years ago, there was employed
| in the Reed House in Findlay, young lady
! in the capacity Of waiter, whose extraordi-
nary beauty was the subject OF remark from
all the frequenters Of the House. The his
tory Of the girl is singular.
She had negro blood in her veins. though
so little of It that it was not perceptible,
and had been a slave. When sixteen years
of age, she was hired out TO the proprietor
of hotel, in Louisville, KY. and contin-
ued ut that house MS waiter until she was
nearly twenty. About this time she had at
tracted the attention Of a free negro, living
in Louisville, who proposed to assist her to
Freedom, If, when once in safety, she would
marry him. Thinking only Of gaining Lib
er,y, Of emancipating herself from bondage,
she consented, and after time, found her.
self in Ohio, and free woman.
In short time, however, she repented o.
her bargain. In Kentucky she had been O
negro and a slave. in Ohio she was a white
woman and free. Her beauty gave her pow
er, and beng extremely sh,ewd she deter
mined TO make the most Of II. Therefore
she delayed her marriage with her colored
admiter as long as possible. She represent.
ed that by remaining single, and concealing
the fact Of her being Of mixed blood, she
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ploymen', and that efter they had accumula-
ted enough to stnit them in life, then they
would marry. To all this he assented, aud
he laUored as never negro labored, that the
delay might be as short as possible.
She followed her business as waiter, at
several places, Mansfield, Flndlay, Sandusky
City, and finally went to Kankokee, Illinois
her colored friend following. her in all her
mgralions.
Al Kankakee she made the acquaintance
Of young mechanic, who learned his trade
in Findlay, and whose mother still resides
in the north part OF the county, who becom-
ing enamored of her, proposed, was accept
ed, and married her. The negro was frantic
with rage. Supposlng the husband TO have
been deceived, he told him his wife's histo-
ny, but the shrewd girl had forestalled him
by giving him every particular. Then, de.
terminrd upon vengeance, lie went back to
Louisville, found her owner, gave inlorma.
ton of her whereabouts, directed the officers
TO her dwelling, and in six weeks from the
day of her marriage she was again slave in
Kentucky. Her owner put her Immediately
upon n plantation near Bowling Green.
In the meantime the husband spent two
years in vain efforts to procure her freedom.
lie tried to bay her, but the owner would
not SELL he endeavorei 10 effect her escape,
but size was too visianty guarded.
Finally hostililes broke ont, and in the
hope of recovering his wife, he enlisted in
an Illinois regiment, which, fortunately
was one Of those ordered into Kentucky.
Before the force to which he belonged
reached Bowling Green, he got permission
to attempt the capture, aud with the assist
ance Of his Captain, and a Cantain and
Lieutenant of the 2lSt Ohio. who knew
him, they succeeded in rescuing her.
The happy husband got furlough, and
county, and as the Fugitive Slave Law is
not being executed with as much rgor as
formerly, We have no doub, they will, here
after, live in peace.