Senator Yulee of Florida a Biographical Sketch volume 1
Senator Yulee of Florida a Biographical Sketch volume 1
Charles Wickliffe Yulee
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Singing, with rythmic swing, (juaint negro melodies. There, a thousand miles from his Pennsylvania lumie, this dear clergyman ])reached scholarly sermons to a congregation all of whom were reverential, and many of whom remain- ed awake. vS E N A T O R D A V I D L. Y (J L E E 25 At the end of about two years, the whole family went off on a visit to Captain Taylor, a "neighbor" some fifty miles distant, and were enjoying to the full, a hospitality which was famous, when, at daylight one morning t...wo of the Homosassa people appeared and told a startling tale. The servants at the residence, alarmed by the bark- ing of an English sheep-dog, named "Sesech, " saw com- ing through the gloom of the night a large boat rowed with muffled oars. Snatching a few belongings, and taking a boat from another part of the island, they hurried up to the plantation, three miles distant, gave the alarm, the cooper — a might)^ shot and sage — took command, torches flared through the darkness, wonder- ing mules and oxen were geared into dozens of sugar- cane wagons, bedding, children, cooking utensils and odd treasures heaped in confusedly, and, as the dawn came, a long line, headed, with bad strategy, by the armed men, marched rapidly away from the strangers, known to be bearing them freedom, toward a loved and trusted mas- ter.
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