The Exposure on Board the Atlantic & Pacific Car of Emancipation for the Slaves of Old Columbia, Engineered by the Lightning Express (Volume 1); Or, C

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... A NOTE OF EXPLANATION. The reader will have noticed this idea several times repeated in the foregoing defense--viz., that I should never return to my husband, until he had repented, and made suitable satisfaction for the wrongs he had done me, in treating me as an insane person when I was not; and had never given him the first cause for doing so. And now I have returned to him, and he is not a penitent. This seeming contradiction is thus explained. I was taken from the Asylum against my will by my husband, at the demand of the trustees--they giving as their reason for removing me, that the house was not designed for such cases. Mr. Packard placed me in Granville, Putnam county, Illinois, in the family of Mr. David Field, who married my adopted sister. This family had strict orders given them not to let me have one dollar of money, lest I use it in going to see my own dear children, then with him in Manteno. He assured them that should I return to them he would be compelled to put me back into an Asylum, to save their souls! He took me from the Asylum, June 18, 1863, and I remained in Granville until the middle of October, when my desire to see my six dear children became so strong that I ventured to visit them, in defiance of my husband's threat that he would send me back again to my prison if I ever came to my own dear home, to see my own dear children. Self-defense prompted me to make this vow, and the spirit of it has not been violated by returning home when and as I did. I knew that while in his present deluded state of mind, I should have no ground to expect but that he would send me directly back to the Asylum; and I knew also, from Dr. McFarland's practice, that he would admit me, although he knew and' fully believed in his heart that I was truly a...