Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-10
A STORY OF LOVE.
HOW A SLAVE WON HIS WIFE.

MRS. STOWE made her reputation from
the gre 1t mine of romantic truths which
surrounds So many of the colOred race.
The future novelist will draw upon these
simple annals of the once down-trodden,
but 1ow emancipated people as the his
tofians of the Pentateuchs have drawn
upon the exodus from bondage of the
children of Israel.
Year after year Robert jackson has
been the second waiter at the Union, and
the head waiter at Congress Hall, but the
careless crowds have not known that
through his veins courses the proudest
Virsiai blood. Robert is a small, well.
made quadroon, and his head closely
resembl s that of Stephen A. Douglas
His grandfather was General Harry
Lee, Of revolutionary, light horse cav
airy fame; and his mother was a
slave woman, named Jenney, maid
of Mrs Lee. Soon after the birth of
William jackson, the head walters father,
Jenney was sold to Col Stewart. of Fred
erick County, Maryland. The boy
William showed extraordinary intelli-
geGce, and became pet of his master,
and on the death of Col. Stewart, found
himself free by clause in the will
William went Immediately to Washington,
where he had been many times with his
master. There he met John Mclean,
P P,stmaster- General under Martin Van
Buren, and a friend of his old master.
Judge Mclean appointed him messen-
ger in the Post Office Department at
alary of $500 per annum.
While messenger in the Post Office
Department, William Jackson met beau
tiful long haired octoroon, the sla0e of old
Judge John Stewart of Baltimore. The
slave girls name was Rachel, and she came
N q Mics of ho 70 osbi0n.
able Baltimore bellies, at one of President
Van Buren's receptions William lost his
heart with the dusky maid, and soon went
to Baltimore to get Judge Stewart, who
owned her, to consent to their marriage.
No, sir" replied the Judge, indignant
ly, Rachel is slave, and she mast marry
a slaoe. If she marries a free Niger she
will be running away herself, and, besides,
don't know when l may want to sell her
to the New Orleans traders"
Then can never marry her?'
Never, until some body buys her from
me-" replied the Judge.
Rachel was sent to the Frederick Coun-
ty farm, and thither William went in the
night to hold consultation with her.
First it was resolved to run away. But
there was no chance of success. The fu-
gitive slave law was in effect; passes were
required by the slaves on the plantation
and to run away was surely to be caught,
returned, and then dreadful whipping
followed
"What can we do?" sobbed Rachel.
know" replied William, / will buy
you myself"
But you have no money"
can work and earn it." replied the
determined lover.
"How much will you take for Rachel ?''
10 aeEQd of Ind vo StpWart tho 1,evt daU
Well, a thousand dollars will buy her, !"
replied the hard-hearted Judge.
William went to work-every cent was
saved, he even going on foot into Frederick
County by night, to seeI Rachel, where they
held solemn consultations and hoped only
for the time when he could buy her and
own her and make her his wife.
Think of that, mercenary beaur, heart
less fortune hunters of Congress Hall =
think of toiling night and day, and then
think of paying your last cent for the love
of woman.
Two years rolled around, and nine hun.
dred dollars gladdened the sight of VIM
Jackson. Christmas came.
What shall I give ou for Christmas
this year, William" ?" asked the good old
Postmaster General of his trusty messen
ger.
Anything, Mr. Secretary"
"But what would you like the most ?"
Then William told the story of his an6
Rachel's trouoles-how he was afraid she
would be sold, how he loved her dearly
and how he lacked still hundred dollars
to buy her.
The old Postmaster General took off his
specs, wiped his eyes, then put them Oh
again. Then he fumbled in his pockets
Five-ten-twent thirty" he count
cd and thor, ho hondoI UV;lliap, ~ b,,oJ,c1
doN1rs!
Too happy to live, William started fol
Judge Stewards.
Here, Master John" said he, with his
eyes all aglow with joy, "here is the thous
and dollars-now l want Rachel"
MY God! William, you don't tell mt
so!' exclaimed the Judge. "Why, sole
Rachel yesterday for $1,000 to go to Mo
When Is she going?" asked William
nervously.
She's gone already-went yesterday
Shed be in Lynchburg in three days by
the boat"
Broken hearted and crushed in spirit
William hurried back to Judge Mclean ir
Washington. The Judge heard his story
Daniel Webster and John G. Calhoun
were LII the Judges room, and they botl
took deep interest.
Let's raise the money and send Viii
liam after her," said the generous Web
ster.
He would be seized dozen times as
fugitive" said the Judge, "and they'll
sell him, too.
"I'n send my private secretary" sait
Webster, and SO he did.
There was no telegraph then, nor cars
but the Secretary took the Potomac Rive
md xr.I koI ~
JacksOn's friends in the department, over
took Rachel, showed Mr.. Calhoun's letter
indorsed by several Virginians, bought he
ana brought her back. Calhoun, Webster
and Judge Mclean saw them married tn,
next week
Our head waiter, Robert Jackson, after
ward waited on Webster and Calhoun il
their old age at the old "Indian Quee1
Hotel" in Washington, now called tn
Metropolitan, where, in 1884, he met Mrs
joseph G. Luther, present habitue o
Congress Hall, on her wedding tour. Mrs
Luther took Robert to Swansea, Massa
chusetts, instructed him, and few year
afterward he made an engagement at tn
Union Hotel. During the winter he catere,
for those eccentric bachelors in New York
Mr.. T. H. Faile, Mr. Edward Penfold, O
MIR. Robert McCrosky. Only the forme
survives In 1868 Robert became hea
waiter of Congress Hall. He caters fo
New Workers in the winter at 206 Ws
verify Place. Robert has, perhaps, tn
largest acquaintance of any one in Saratc
ga. He knows old Presidents and scion
of royalty, knows distinguished savan
poets, statesmen and historians. He live
in beautiful vine-clad cottage on Wasl
ington street, in Saratoga, where the guest
of Congress Hall frequently call upon h
wife, who is one of the neatest hous,
keepers in Saratoga. Saratoga Cor. ~
COnamercSGl Adoertiser.
The Ku-Klnx Organization.
A Washington special dispatch to tt
Chicago Tribune of the 30th ult, says:
A gentleman who has official access
the evidence taken by the Ku-Klux Cor
r,,ittoo hac rod ntotor,o,,t nm, l,x,d