Year: 1869




a WhIIe Eaiden from the Orberlin


District in Pursuit of q Negro Low


er--An about it.


The appearance before one of our
city magistrates, yesterday, of a very
handsome young woman, and the
story she there related furnished an
excellent illustration OF the effects of
Radiealism as it is taught by the lead
ers Of that party at the present day
No more potent argument can be pro-
duced to show that the ultimate end
and aim of the recognized teachers of
that party is the equalization of the
races, than that white female who
received her education at Oberlin
should CONCEIVE strong affection for
big black negro-an affection of so
ardent a nature as to cause her to for
sake her home, friends, honor, every
thing. For IS not the Oberlin District
the place where Radicalism was born?
AT ieast.did not one of the progenitors
of that party-GiddingG deceased
hail from there? But


Mary Stephens, born of white par
ents-a well to do old couple residing
not far from the town of ODerlin,
OhiO,-Was Ienderly nursed in her in
fancy, received a liberal education,
and at the age OF eighteen years
about one year ago-she was ackhol'
edged belle of the region in which she,
with her parents, resided. According
to ner story, Mary had scores of sui
tors belonging to the Caucasia n race
But these slitors did not suit her. At
school and ct home, she had been
taught that negro was as good as q
white man and sometimes little bet
ter. This idea had not during Mary's
childhood become the leading one in
the creed of a political party, but it
has since. The only difference on
that score, between eight years ago
and the present time, is that the doc
trines that were then peculiar to the
land where Mary lived are now the
accepted tenets, ,ofa party that extends
throughout the length aud breadth of
the land But we digress. Mary con-
tInues her story to the Alderman. At
Oberlin she met a burly negro, and
in consequence, perhaps, of the lessons
that had been instiIled into her young
mind, she failed to perceive the differ
ence in the races that is SO plainly
perceptible to great many white
people, and, to use her own words,
'fshe thought she would like HIM as q
husband" The negro knew nothing
of this, however, for Mary had only
met him two or three times, and, as
she related it, s'she had not an oppor-
tunity to acquaint him with the state
of her feelingS.D The negro left Ober-
lin and came to Pittsburg. Mary had
set her head upon him. and she soon
after came TO this city with the hope
of finding her adOred tfblack and tan
ner." Here a link is wanting. Miss
Stephens states that she came to this
city and stopped at hotel, but she
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the Identical negro that took her
heart by storm. But she found ne
gro, and was satisfied. And she lov-
ed this negro, too. Indeed, he may
be the Oberlin darkey, but Mary
doesn't say. An intimacy sprang up;
Mary was loving and trusting, and
the negro at the hotel took advantage
of her weakness. In order that she
might be ever near the nigger of her
choice, Miss s.. engaged herself as
chambermaid at the hotel, and in this
manner an intimacy was continued
until a few days ago, when Miss S.
learned, through an employee at the
hotel, that her lover was paying his
addresses to dusky maiden in Hayti,
with whom he was soon 10 be married,
This was too much even for a white
girl who had received her education
at Oberlin. She first upbraided her
false-hearted negro, and this not prov
ing efectual, she threatened. With
a careless laugh the inconstant one
turned upon his heel and walked a
way. Next we have suit before an
Alderman, Mary Stephens making
and information charging Luther Mil
Ter with seduction. A warrant was
issued, but the defendant got wind of
the unhappy termination of bis in
ltimacy with the Oberlin girl, and left
the city in time to evade arreSt. This
was last Monday. Yesterday the
prOsecutrix again made her appear
ance at the Alderman's Office and de-
sired to Withdraw the information,
stating that the difficulty had been
amicably settled. She did not tell
how the settlement was effected.