The weekly union record., 1864-05-28
THE UNION RECORD.
A Colored Romance in Real Life.

strong and g0od-looking mulatte, with
more than the ordinary intelligence of
his class. On the same plantation was
an Octoroon girl, whose regular features,
light complexion, dark flowing tresses,
and brilliant black eyes, would have
established her as the belle Of any as
sembly, had the fact of her slave par
entage not been known. A passion
sprang up between the mulatto and the
octoroon, AMI with the consent Of their
master they were married.
Shortly after the marriage, the owner
of the plantation became 80 much en-
barrassed that he had to sell part Of his
land and several Of his negroes. A
planter fro.a Louisiana was so much
struck with the beauty of the octoroon
bride that he made an offer to her owner
of such sum as induced the latter TO
sell her.
The despair Of husband and wife at
this disposition can be imagined. The
mulatto threw himself at the feet Of the
purchaser and begged to be bought also,
but was spurned away, and told with
brutal sneer that his presence would be
exceedingly i1sconrenient to the pur-
chaser, who wanted the woman for
| purposes Of his own.
Despair and rage filed the breast of
the bereayed and wronged husband.
Selling the hoe, he jumped at the brutal
Louisianian, and would have Drained
him, but was knocked down by the over
seer, and his arms bound. His wife,
shrieking and struggling, was borne off
before his eyes, in the grasp of her
brutal purchaser, to become the sport
of his licentious passions. As soon as
she was gone the oyerseer had him tied
up to a post, and whipped him so Sc
verely that he was taken bleeding and
senseless to his quarters.
AS soon as he recovered sufficiently,
the outraged slave commenced laying
plans for his escape, and one night he
fled. Passing from plantation to plan
tation in the night he was secreted by
the slaves and furnished with food and
directions where to go. At first he
endeavored to track out his wife, but
soon found that task not only dangerous
but impossible. He lost all trace Of her.
Turning his attention to his own es
cape, he at length found his way to the
sea coast, and smugglcd himself on
board an English vessel on the point of
sailing.
From that time he led wandering
life. Sometimes he was employed on
board ship, at other times found work
on land, and occasionally was engaged
as servant to families travelling. In
this way he had visited large portion
Of Europe, seen much and generally i'm
proved himself in experience and knowl-
edge. Lately he returned to the Uni
ted States, and for the past month has
been living in this city.
A day or two since he was passing
along Prospect street when he heard
his name called 'Georger' in a voice
that seemed familiar. He stopped,
bewildered and astonished. This name
was repeated, and turning round, he
recognized his wife from whom he had
been cruelty separated eight years be-
fore, and whose image had ever been in
his mind. Unmindful of the publicity
of the place Of meeting they embraced
each other and were almost frantic with
joy.
"Absenee with all its pains
Was by that charming moment wiped away"
Her story was soon told. At first
she had sought to escape from her pur-
chaser, and then endeayored to kill
herself. She was closely watched, and
after while was compelled to live
with the PLANTER as his mistress. BY
this intimacy she had one child.
On the capture of New Orleans By
the Federal force her master fed to the
interior, and attempted to take her
with him. She managed to- elude him,
and with the other slaves Of the plan
tation, sought refuge in the Federal
lines. She was employed as a servant
by one of the officers, and before long
was engaged by family coming North
who brought her to Philadelphia. There
she lived until induced a few days since
to visit Cleveland in company with a
colored woman who had been employed
in the same family. She had arrived
here only the night previous to the for
tunate meeting with the long absent
husband.
The strangely reunited pair are now
living happily together in this city, the
compelled LIAsoN of the wife with her
master having no effect on their present
happiness, the husband considering it
merely as 1.-THE custom of the country
down there
The above story is literally true,and
forms another instance Of truth being