The sun., 1900-12-09

and feauyea, DO tefeby pfohlbN NV pruning anu
publishing OF any such stories. 90 called aneedo'es
OF anything relating 10 my life, except such facts
- may be given ou, by my family after my death
This Is done In justice 70 my relatives and family
because such stories and anecdotes Are ovsdawn
and misleading.
In witness whereof I hsvs hereunto ~ my hand
and seal
J. MILTON (xI oLARxA
Margaret Lesmy,
Isabel Clarke
Middlese1, sai CAMBmpoa Nov. ~. 1900.
Then personally appeared the above-nemed J.
Milton Clarke and made oath that the above 10 his
free act and deed
Before me, HERMAN BIRD
Justice Of the PeaoA
About flve years ago Mr.. Clarke was In
terviewed by a reporter. to whom he old the
story Of his llfe. According to this story he
was held as a slave long before the uvu War.
but had not the sli ghtest trace Of negro blood
in his velns. Clarkes story Is set down a.
follows:
If my brother and had not been born
Uncle Toms cabin would never have been
written. III tell you why that Is so. be-
cause We told the story to Mrs. stowe. ~ 10
the story Of our own lives.
Harris Of the novel. and his sister, who was
sold In the public slave market Of New Or
leans. was our own sister. Uncle Tom was a
slave named Sam Pete that NY brother saw
whipped to death down In Madison county.
Ky, and my brother buried hip. My own
mistress, who helped me get my freedom.
was Eva. so you see Mrs. Stoves characters
What did she know about slavery She
wrote down what we told her and hrst sent
Il TO the Ndtona! Era, which Was puDhsheu
In Washington. They asked her To nave
the story continued. but she could not DO AZ
until she got ne and my brother again: ny
brother was the one she pumped usually
because he lived most Of the time at the house
Of her brOther-in-law. Mr.. Sanford. In Cam
bridge. Mrs. stowe gave US n9tmng. not
q dollar. she was very close with money.
The only thing ! ever received from Uncle
Toms Cabin, was an illustrated copy OF the
me few years ago. But we dld not Waht
ANYTHING for the help We gave her; we were
glad That Il was 70 be put into a BOOK 'ha'
Il believe that / was born for a purpose
10 work out SONS good for humanity nnd 50
! am satisfied. l was runaway sIaVe' 60
was my brother
IRat aren't yS93 white man, was ,Esks asked
Of him. foI tho od mans c1mEie%m fqcsn cnoI oS aRd
tho fringe of his hair protrndihs from unuet
his cap was brown. where 1t had not turned
There ia not ono drop Of negro blood in
me SO far as am ascsrt tin. was the re-
ply, but that's where the stQry comes els IN m
and T said G"vS when eH / was a boy that / would
never he a slave II could help It. ! was
bought for us as soldier in the Revolutionary
Mr. Clarke said that his grandfather was
enia to Kentucky when that territory was
first settled There h" married his second
Sife. wealthy p.antation owner, who's
estate he went to suprrlItnud. Mr Clarke's
father was 9 Scotch lrlshnan who was a
mustered out at y9rTowl at TIE end OF
the war and then made his way to Kentucky
Tho elder Clarke, was an old man when he
married the daughter Of Samuel Campbell.
Grandfathrr Campbell died, Mr., Clarke,s
mother. hi- brother and sister and he himself
w"rcdeclared slaves by the Campbellrelatives,
who, he SAYS, set up as protext that his
mother was born slave In virginia, The
slaves. Mr. Clarke was then years old. He
at llrst lived with joseph Logan, an uncle OF
was Arst mnrtgaged and then sold with his
brother and sister. His sister was taken to
New orleans and sold In the public slave
Tons cabin Mr Clarke saws he owes his
escape TO his pretty. young mistress, who was
Is years OF age and who was the Eva OF the
Hs mistress had just returned from Gin
clnnati, where she was attending school and
pit on the white boy. who was her slave SER
want She sent the young man to Cincinnati
Nltl Il lftltI 70 NdilllOll = I iIdSe VINO Nds u
Judge In that city at that time, Mr. Chase
assisted Clarke ln many ways, and through
his SnG Ga b f., star9 SaaGoe & 'pena ars N
SAYS that people Hooked 10 the city from al
over Ohio to see the white slave as lao was
called They told him he should never go
back to slavery.
Judge Chase sent the young man to school
at QberlIn. on the way he stopped at Spring
field and was entertained at the house of the
father of the late John herman. Clarke
was in the COMPANY. Of some delegates on
Governor at Columbus. Young John Sher-
man asNed his father who that Young fell
i2Y vas, IGterrlng e. CIarse; Inc father
slave. so he said tnat he was one Of the Ken
tuckv delegates. John sherman said he
wa willing 10 st at the table with the dele
From oberlln, Cla-ke went to Buffalo,
where be met Mr. Fillmore, afteryard presi.
ernoT OF New YorF, Everywhere he went
tested In his case. He was well received in
New York city and met John Jacob Astor.
and when ne went 70 Utica he met Roscoe
mon his track, Clarke was advised TO go. 70
b1N,2n. This he DID in is.s, accompanied
live, win Mr.. sanford 70 Cambridge Mr.,
S"G"Ta Bao sha at xsS Mrs. % Ds s,dTe
became a,0uaintod with the history Of these
Nj Clarke and his brother dictated a book
Of their own, which the Rev Mr. IoveJov a
brother OF the martvr Of Alton, ILL.,, wrote
In the 90 Some 10000 copies Of this
book were disposed Of and the young, men
made some n nev out 81 IT,, Mr.. Clarke
Boston. he lcctured on slavery and once spoke
before the MaSsachu-' IT. LEGISLATURE Mr.
Clarka's brother Lewis. th" Geor Harris
of the book, died recently at LEXINGTON, Ky,
The latter was SUPPORTED mainly In his old
a . bv his 'rother. John Milton Clarke.
Mr.. Cla~ke has n war record. He enlisted
L., o.. in ard
u Ia, In l.LIrn slla'a hrluala and