Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15
DOVER. DELAWARE.
Gath" Reviews an Incident of Pro-Slav-
cry Days. and Points a Moral by a Com
parisOn with Present Property.

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cry DAYS. ana Points Moral by Com
parison with Present Property.
New York Letter.
friend of Commodore Garrison said
to me to-day that he thought that gen.
tleman now aged seventy five was in toe
many enterprises, considering his feeble
ness; that he had built gasworks in Balti-
more at an expense of S2,OOO,QOO, and hati
gone into railroad from Sandusky "a
Wheeling, Virgins expecting to spend only
$5OO,OOO or so, when it involved him in an
outlay of four or five times that sum. Il
Think said the friend, chat he expected
his son William to live. and that these
plants would bloom very we'll for MIN in
fortune but alas, the son died.
and the young, new wife has
no son yet. AS far as money is concerneds
Garrison is very rich. Everybody expects
him to be worth $25,O0O,OOo, Although
paralysed, his paralysis is getting better.
They are family of great vitality. His
brother ii Pittsburghis seventy EIGHT yea IS
old and he can run up the stairs of hie. bo.
tel in New York faster than any yor.npstA,
in it.
lew Gays aSo " 40 =" 'no state of Del.
aware, romance of slave nv. AS I came
away from Dover, Del" ware dnr,na H.
state fair, was intro ,auced 70 a Mr. Bacon
OF sussex COZ ATTY. generally called
'he nSyPt u >Ae state. A little story was
partially ID in his presence, showing how
siaVefs made its cwn enemies through the
opF 1ations of the human heart. This Mr.
4tacon is e good looking man, with frank
pair Of eyes, and is apparently novice in
political matters. just about thirty years
ago, when he was very radical pro-slav-
cry man, he called on Geo. p. Fisher, who
was then attorney general of the state, to
assist to save free colored woman who
had been condemned to receive thirty nine
lashes on the bare back, to be
fined, and to be sold as a slave outside of
Delaware to the highest bidder. This Mr..
Fisher, who still lives, and who confirmed
the story as it was told to me, was the
same Judge who tried John Surratt, one
of the conspirators against the life of
President Lincoln, nearly twenty years
years afterward. and Fisher was also the
private secretary of John M. Clayton, and
his assistant secretary of state, at the
time the Claytcn-Buiwer treaty was nego-
tiated. Judge Fisher is still living at the age
of sixty five, and is considered the head of
the Republican party of Delaware. AS
attorney general OF the state he was, in
1872, compelled to prosecute like any
county attorney through the three counties
which compose Delaware, but when he
went to Sussex county to push this free
woman hard the extreme slavery interest
was not satisfied with him, and got other
counsel. The case Of the free woman was
deplorable. indeed. She wasone of the
best domestics in all that region of coun-
try, and was trusted and beloved by the
wives and children Of the slave holders,
who often employed her to wash, to nurse,
to attend the sick, etc. She was a light
mulatto wife. A pass describing her ap-
pearance was constantly in her hands,
which allowed her to 60 and come as she
desired. Her husband fell in love with q
younger, yellow woman, who, however,
answered to her description on paper. and
he stole's his wife's piss to let his mistress
escape out of the state, so that he might
follow and marry her. The guilty woman
was arrested in the act of getting
out of Delaware on the train
and the good woman and injured wife was
arrested on the charge of having lent her
the pass. The pro slavery interest was as
hot as it was during the campaign to elect
Franklin Pierce president. Nither in the
slavery question had got into the national
conventions, yet although the lawyers in
the case knew that the woman was no
guilty, she was not allowed to testify in
her behalf nor could any other negro do
SO, because the laws forbade colored testi-
was that her pass was i'll
another woman's hand, both of the
despised race! Accordingly the Infamous
sentence was to stand up at the whipping
post and be cut on her naked bacd and sold
for a slave, though she had done nothing
but good to that community all her life,
and was at the moment IN receipt of the
greatest injury that could be done to her
by her unfaithful husband Even had she
lent her pass to tho escaping slave, it
would have been only human charity, and
at the present time would receive
the appreciation of everybody.
Judge Fisher said that as he was sitting
in a room in Georgetown the door opened
and in came this Mr.. Bacon to whom l
spoke but yesterday. He looked around
and asked if William Salisbury or any
of the old pro-slavery leaders were there.
Finding none to embarrass him he slipped
in and said, 'sMr. Fisher my wife is in dis
tress on account of this colored woman's
sentence. The children are all crying.
You know l am slavery man, but I can
not bear to have this sentence
carried out. Can't something be done to
buy the woman when she
was sold?'
II don't know anybody who would do
it, said Fisher, except the abolitionists
Here is John Hum, who has spent his
whole life assisting negroes to escape, and
whom you think to be a felon for doing it
Do you want HUM to raise the money to
buy this woman p