Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — Great Excitement at Pomersy. [ARTICLE]

Great Excitement at Pomersy.

[From the Meigs County Telegraph, May 9-

Or> Thursday fast our town wat thrown into a most intense state of excitement by what was supposed to be a veritable “Fugitive Slave Case.’* There has been a very pretty gftfli Skerir attending school for two or three years jjte'siV to whom one of the F. F. V/s stand’s in tbedouble relation of father and master, As master he sent her here to go to school, and as- the acknowledged father,- fe-e pwpd h«T bearding, and tw-itiorr. The girl is very much a!Jaefred ?o her frther, but from-the fact that Ire i's engaged'irj j buying up slaves rn Virgin-ia, and ship-ping them South/she has had the good sense tc j refuse to return to that State fcr fear she I nfi-ght share tire same fate. Last winter e, , strong effort was made !& induce her to return to Virginia, and large promises- were 1 made to- Irer by her father, rs she would do so; but she declined. Aa a last resort her | mother Was sent over to persuade her to go, : but she still refused. Her mother,- o» her i return, was shipped South; the colored people, and others here, beheving" tiiaE it war the intention to- ship l both-mu the r and daug-h- ---: ter, if the girl cowld have beeiy obtained. On the day above mentioned, the father', in company with a very hard looking customer, both well armed w?tb revolvers-, called io see the girl. She, having fai? confidence, ■ in her father, who had alwaysack-nowledged i and treated her as his daughter, was not at all alarmed—in fact, it is said she haff writ- ! ten for him to send, or come and? bring her I some money—but some of her friends, bei lieving that the design was to kidnu-p her, 1 raised such a cry of ••murder,” and alb other i cries, that the town was instantly alarmed, and quite a crowd was soon congregated* C®' ' ascertain the cause of the row. The Viri ginians solemnly protested their pacific intentions—the father protesting that he had ' come to visit the girl and pay her bills, withi out any intention of taking her away; that, in fact, he had emancipated her, and in proof of this, showed what purported to be a deed of emancipation, which he offered to give her. This instrument, however, on examination, was found to be of no validity- This fact tended to increase the suspicion. All J things, however, would have gone off smoothi ly but for the fury of one of the negroes, who ' had a private wrong ot his own to avenge. It seems that after the birth of the girl in question, her mother, with the consent of her master, married this excited individual, who, by his efforts, had bought and paid for his own b >.ly and soul, and had made a payment or two oh his wife, whose freedom he had also purchased, and who w is the mother ot this girl before he purchased and married i her. Tawney as bis skin-is, be seems to have been somewhat outraged by the sale of his . wile, after fie had lived with her fourteen years, and had partly paid fur her. He i claimed that he had other grievances—that ihe had detected between his wile and the gentleman sundry peccadilloes, and that acI cording to the law in the Sickles case, he had a right to kill the gentlem in, and meant 1 to do it instanter. i Hereupon the chivalry of Virginia found ■ safety in the house of a colored man, drawi ir.g the curtains of the windows to prevent being shot through them. Here was exhib- | ited some ot the tallest specimens of humble suplication ever before poured fourth from the fear-shriven soul of mortal. Gods, men and negroes were implored to save him from the wrath of this furiated “chattel.” At length, after the crowti had been exi cessively amused, and-the Virginians scared, | it was proposed that both parties ground their arms and come to a truce. Whereupon thu ' Virginians surrendered their revolvers into , the hands of Esq. L°e, and the darkey his into the hands of Sheriff’Smith, and the war ended. The Virginians, pale and trembling, with the awful vision of the terrible darkey ttill haunting them, a"d accompanied by the “Squire,” who was to escort them to “Old Virginia’s shore,” and there, in due form, deliver up the revolvers, reached the ferry, where so terribly were they alarmed that they ottered fifty dollars to the ferry man if he would land them “safely on the other side,” before the darkey at them. We are happy to say that the Virginia gentleman has since sent his daughter a genuine deed of manumission, and she is now free. She is almost pure white, intelligent and beautiful—such an article as would readily sell at from two to five thousand dollars in the South, according to the abundance or scarcity of that style of goods in the market. So that the gentleman has, according to the ethics of slavery, sacrificed that • mount of property. , CKy“A Texas Democratic paper cackles : boisterously over the alleged f ct that a free i negro woman, named Caroline, has petitioned i the District Court of Wharton county, i praying tor permission to choose a master, ; and adds: “A negro boy of that county, we understand, will present his petition at the next meeting of the Court, to be returned into Slavery. Let Abolitionists reflect upon this, and remember that these negroes only seek tlie condition their Creator intended them to occupy.” We are not authorized to speak for the Abolitionists; but presume, that with an uncompromising hostility to Slavery, they would compromise the question by agreeing that those and no others, who, of their own tree will, desire to remain or become slaves, should occupy thatenviuble position.— Be. o<>~The tallest fraudulent voting ever heard of, says the State Journal, was performed in Douglas county, Illinois, a few days since, in an election to determine the location of the county seat. There were two places “running” for it, Arcola and Tuscola. Neither of them has over two hundred votes, and there is not over six hundred in the county. Yet Arcola gave herself twelve hundred and sixty-one votes! and Tuscola more than trebled that, and the county poles tor heiself thirty-eight hundred and silty-one!! This beats' Oxford, Kickapoo and St. Louis, and even rivals Aroostook. The Democracy never did so well before. Verily they are entitled to the claim of being “progressive.” Great is Democracy on a swindle!