Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-25

feelings, they could not have looked
forward to the sad future in store for
them. Reaching n Southern port,
our friend and family, with many
others, took passage on an emigrant
vessel for Brazil. Propitious gales
and smooth seas soon bore them to
the South American country, the de-
lusive Eden Of so many. With n
hopeful heart anda stout arm, he en-
gagged with those who went as a col
only to the improvement of the 10
cality where they had settled, and
the establishment of n home for his
wife and nestlings. Expected re-
wards did not bless the labOrs of his
hands the climate and its ungenial
influences prcyed upon the health OF
the family. Social surroundings were
unpleasant. Accustomed to scenery
that "Shenstone might envy, and to
music that would charm Calypso and
her nymphs," the mother and child
rem had been transferred to virtually
a barbaric land, uncultivated by art,
u%nadorned by civilization. The sur
roundings were chilling and depres,
sive. Misfortunes fell thick and fast
upon them. Disguised with the coun-
try, most of the SOutherners who
went there returned home, or went
to other parts. The condition of our
friend and his family grew from bad
to worse. Business failed utterly. All
his enterprises turned to dry ashes in
his hands. When he would have re-
turned to this country he could not.
He became hopelessly involved and
was q bankrupt.
His daughters had grown into ex-
banding young womanhOod and had
developed into fair, elastic proper
tiOns. And nov comes the saddest
part OF the history of this unfortunate
family. The Brazilian laws are suclI
that when a citizen becomes in debt,
if he has no property, his children arg
sold as slaves, the prices they bring
going to the payment of the obliga
ton. Our friend when he reached
Brazil, unwisely became naturaliZed
and q South American citizen, ant
subject to the laws, thus, by his own
volition, eXpatriating himself from
his native country and its protection
He became involved in debt to som,
Brazilians. His children were sole
t as slaves. His daughters, grown t.
/ young ladies, and whose happy girl
hood and childhood were pleasantly
passed with every comfort and home
blessing in the ~sequestered shades ant
literary Institutions of Montgomer.
county, were led by the merciless girl
of Brazilian law to the slave market
and sold to the highest bidder ! Tn,
price of their bondage paid the faith
er's debt. What u %cunceling wa
l that! That bond of blood has it
parallel in Shylock and the Venetian
Merchant. Thus, these two children
now grown Tennessee young ladies
r are slaves, doing mental work 70
unlettered masters and mistresses il
: Brazil, their price paying a devoted
but unfortunate, fathers debt |. TIL
amount of the debt, we understand
: is 81, 200 in gold, and it will take thi
amount for the father to secure tn
ransom of his children. The gentle
. man is known to many of Il read
} ers. He il well known Throughout
= portions of Middle Tennessee, and i
extensively acquainted and connect
ed in Alabama. Steps have bee
taken to have the 81 300 placed in tn
hands of the father, and we are gla
to say that the prospects are that TIL
children will he released from the tel
-, rible fate that accommodating misfol
y tunes have brought down upon then
q We will close by adding that thi
: case is not in the least exaggerated
a and thatthc facts rs given are volcl
ed for by as veraciOus and intelligen
gentlemen rs there are In the S.ate.