[43] It was discovered that not a few of the mob came from Kentucky.  About eleven o’clock on Saturday night a bonfire was lighted on that side of the river and loud shouts were sent up as if triumph had been achieved.  “In some cases.” says a reporter, “the directors were boys who suggested the point of attack, put the vote, declared the result and led the way.”—­Cin.  Daily Gaz., Sept. 14, 1841.

[44] Hickok, “The Negro in Ohio,” 90 et seq.

[45] Laws of Ohio, XL, 81.

[46] Ibid., LIII, 118.

[47] The Convention Debates.

[48] Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 1871, page 372.

[49] Laws of Ohio.

[50] Ibid., LIII, 118.

[51] The New York Tribune, February 19, 1855.

[52] Lyell, “A Second Visit to the United States of North America,” II, 295, 296.

[53] The Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, June 26, 1844, August 6, 1844, and January 1, 1845.

[54] The Cincinnati Directory of 1860.

[55] Foote, “The Schools of Cincinnati,” 92.

[56] The Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, August 23, 1844.

[57] Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 372.

[58] Simmons, “Men of Mark,” 490.

[59] A white slaveholder, a graduate of Amherst, taught in this school.  See Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, June 26, 1844.

[60] These facts were obtained from oral statements of Negroes who were living in Cincinnati at this time; from M. R. Delany’s “The Condition of the Colored People in the United States”; from A. D. Barber’s “Report on the Condition of the Colored People in Ohio,” 1840; and from various Cincinnati Directories.

[61] Delany, “The Condition of the Colored People in the United States,” 92.

[62] The Cincinnati Directory for 1860.

[63] For the leading facts concerning the life of Robert Gordon I have depended on the statements of his children and acquaintances and on the various directories and documents giving evidence concerning the business men of Cincinnati.

THE STORY OF MARIA LOUISE MOORE AND FANNIE M. RICHARDS[1]

The State of Virginia has been the home of distinguished persons of both sexes of the white and colored races.  A dissertation on the noted colored women of Virginia would find a small circle of readers but would, nevertheless, contain interesting accounts of some of the most important achievements of the people of that State.  The story of Maria Louise Moore-Richards would be a large chapter of such a narrative.  She was born of white and Negro parentage in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1800.  Her father was Edwin Moore, a Scotchman of Edinburgh.  Her mother was a free woman of color, born in Toronto when it was called York.  Exactly how they came to Fredericksburg is not known.  It seems, however, that they had been well established in that city when Maria Louise Moore was born.