Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — Successful Suit for the Freedom of a White Girl. [ARTICLE]

Successful Suit for the Freedom of a White Girl.

A most interesting suit was completed oa Saturday, in the Fifth District Court, Judge Eggleston presiding. It was the case of a suit for freedom from slavery, the plaintiff being a white girl, sixteen or seventeen years of age, with a complexion bordering on a brunnette, named Alexiana Morrison, and the defendant a slave dealer of Jefferson county, named James White. The girl, about a year and a half ago, ran away from White’s slaveyard, where she had been several years, and was protected by some citizens of Carrolton, whom she informed ahft had been kidnapped from Arkansas, and sold into slavery", though she was born free and of white parents. For the plaintiff, the chief testimony was that of a scientific gentleman, showing that there was no evidence of African descent. And for the defendant the principal evidence was narrowed down to a single bill of sale, which he produced from a person in Arkansas who was not present. The jury deliberated but a few minutes, and brought in a verdict for the plaintiff.—.V. O. Delta.