Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-10

5hIu, ! WdS the BlaF6 or 8 f1CQ DlanG6r lE southern Alabama. My duties were simply to attend to the wants of my mistress, who was good Christian woman and an invalid She never said much to me on the subject, but know that in her heart she abhorred slavery. She paid no attention to the law which forbade the teaching of slaves to read, but on the contrary she helped me to rise above my people in every possible way. During her long illness I suppose I read two three hundred books to her. If anyone ever makes fUss about it. she would say, tell them that you had to learn
 in order to be able to read to me- When Fort Sumter was fired upon she was lying upon her death bed. Upon hearing the news she started up with the cry:
 'F'It is the death knell of the Southl'
 tThen she sank back with smile of peace, saying. "sAnd thank God it is the death knell of slavery also!'
 q should not have known quite how she felt if it had not been for that. She nev- CT spoke but once afterwards. It was to
 say: ,o o.o--.. leave your young master, George. Stand | by him and comfort him, and keep him ! always loyal and true.'
 George was her only son.
 s'Then came the war and my young mas ter, who lad been studying medicine for several years, entered the service of the Confederate army 6 surgeon. I went with him and followed him from place to place for four years. Even after the eman- ! cipation I stayed with him and served him. | But alas madam, sinned. I see it and ! understand it now as I could not then. | went with him not as his servant simply, but | as the companion of his joys and his sorrows 1 and whatever lot might fall to him-as his I wifel My heart protested and I often be- l sought him to consider what we were doing. \ But those were busy, terrible days, ma'am, I and he would only kiss me and say:
 C Tt is no time, Alabama, for marriage or giving in marriage
 'fI know not how long it was, madam, bui I became reconciled to the unholy union. Even after the war we lived together fol three years-till the very day when came tc I your door and asked for help. Bat my con science kept accusing me more and more \ My first boy was born only one month after Lees surrender and we settled at Louisville Ky. There my husband-for may not cal \ him so?-was very successful as physician | and we lived in luxury. You know how common such things are in the South. Georg was as devoted and tender and true as anJ husband ever was He was fully rsconcilec to the results of the war himself, but did not dare, holding the prominent place which he did in the esteem or the Louisville pub- \ lie, to make our marriage legal.
 | "At length I could endure it no longer. did what had often felt impelled to do be- | fore. told him that not even promise to the dead could justify me in longer living ir ! such relations with him. He pleaded with l me not to leave him. All my friends, and | even some of his, urged me to forege my scruples. Then he said he should not let me ! leave him without providing for me; he would furnish me with fine home any | where and send noe an allowance monthly. I would not listen to this, but when he was SC ! v fn at h oU V | fare to Atlanta. I had few friends down ! here and had decided to cast my lot among ! them. So I took my two children and | enough money to buy a ticket and feed us | on the way. The rest you know. He has written me repeatedly, urging me to come I back; but though love hin-ah, God only ! knows how much-I cannot exchange the peace of conscience which has come to me during these last weeks and months for the forbidden joys of the old life."
 Then came, two years later, the per secutions which compelled both MT. Kimball and Governor Bullock to quit the Gate City between two days. The Kimball family had time that they trusted her and honored hel as one of thelr own number. They accor- dingly left her in charge of the family man sion during their essence; and there she stayed and held the fort and concealed from importunate bailifs the keys of the various
 
 months.
 Atthe end of that time, by means of an arrangement previously agreed upon, the man whose statue now adorns the triangular plot of ground at the junction of Peachtree and Old Peachtree, Ben Hill, came up to At lanta frem his home in Athens and occupied the Point house. In his capacity as attor- ney for the absent proprietor he continued to occupy the house until the time when it was sold to his son-in-l law, Edgar Thompson. In the meantime the oldest son of Alaba- ma was growing up, large, proud, hand- some bOy-the pet now of Mir. Kimban and now of the distinguished Georgian Senator. After his course in the Storrs school he en- tered Atlanta university, took the full clas-
 sical course of seven years and graduated
 with the highest honors. All phases of ex- perience were his. After the flight of the
 Kimballs and the removal of the Hill fam
 ily his mother took in washing to earn . living, spending twelve of fifteen dollars
 she earned each month to put him through
 college. He assisted her by selling papers
 on the streets, trundling trucks in ware-
 house, teaching school in the back woods and
 even carrying bricks with the common day
 1aborers on the streets. The disposition to
 study was not inborn in him and he had to
 fight his way. But he succeeded and torday
 he is one of the honored teachers in Atlanta
 university, only twenty-two years of age,
 but the most perfect example of physical de-
 velopment that I ever saw, and msn who
 can read Latin or Greek with you and nae,
 and perhaps discount us both.
 Now comes the sequel of the story.
 Insulted, stung, denied the inalienable
 rights of manhood through all these years,
 he seldom travels or attends a public enter
 tainment if he can help it. But last week he so much desired to attend the Gilmore jubi- lee that he went to the box office and pur- chased three reserved seat tickets at dollar L. c1G z7ra z1Y3 f<N him with tue full knowledge that he was Q mulatto. On Thursday evening he started for the Piedmont exposition grounds, where tho jubilee was being held, in company with Miss Massey, the mulatto music teacher in the same university, graduate of the Con- servatory of Music at oberlin, Ohio, and a woman of rare graces of heart and mind and young lady student who was as white as the fairest northern belle that is reading this story.
 The three took their seats. They were re- fined, cultivated, well dressed and better able to appreciate the concert than most of the white people present. There were q number of ooarse-looking negro attendants of blue.blooded spectators distributed through out the house. Unoleanly negro boys were passing up and down the aisles, hawking peanuts and other refreshments. Southern ohivalry could tolerate these because they were present as menials. But southern sen t1menl could not tolerate the preseHce oI euo three sensitive, refined, educated negroes, who were there as equals of the whites So an usher came and argued with the young man for half an hour, trying to per-
 suade him to get up and leave quietly with his companions. The young man refused quietly but firmly, saying that unless he was given some good, valid reason why he had no right where he was he should remain in his seat.
 tsThsn shall have to get policeman and have you elected, said the usher.
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