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The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1865., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
ulatto, quite fair to look upon, still survives, and was the subject of the present legal proceedings. Montamat, at the time of his marriage, determined to purchase the freedom of his wife from her owner, and, in furtherance of that object, had paid six hundred dollars. In order to secure the freedom of his surviving child, he sent her to Cincinnati, where she was baptized into the Catholic Church. Montamat, the father, subsequently became involved in debt in this city, and mortgaged his daughter as a slave to secure his creditors. The mortgage was foreclosed in February, 1862, and the child of this father was sold to a Mr. Slavoie, at sheriffs sale. In the present case, Montamat applied for the freedom of his child under the circumstances above detailed. Able counsel had been retained by both parties-Christian Roselius for the defendant, and Colonel A. P. Field for Montamat. The Court decided that the girl was entitled to her freedom, and so ordered.--N. O. Delta, October 10.
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Army of Tennessee. (search)
here will be final. Fight between Yankee Congressmen. In Washington, Monday night, Mr. A. P. Field, the claimant of a seat in Congress from New Orleans, Louisiana, was arrested for an assault and battery on Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, in the hall of Willard's Hotel. Mr. Field was taken to the station-house, and the case was ruled for further hearing. Mr. Field attacked Judge Kelley Mr. Field attacked Judge Kelley with a small knife, and inflicted a wound in the back of his hand. There are several accounts given of the affair; one of which, that it grew out of reference made to the Brooks and Sumner affair byd's, where Judge Kelley and some friends were sitting in conversation, and were interrupted by Mr. Field with inquiries relative to his claim for a seat in Congress; that Judge Kelley remarked that hns, but did not wish to make them the subject of dispute there in the presence of ladies, that Mr. Field retired from the table, and subsequently, when Judge Kelley made his appearance in the hall, t