.f 1^ 'southern notes FOB NATIONAL CIRCULATION l^ow, what I want is Facts." Thomas Guadorind, Esq., of Coketovn. Wlien found, make a Note of." Captain Ed'abd Cuttle, Mariner. BOSTON: THAYER & ELDRIDGE, 114 & lift Washington Street. 1 8 G . Entered, accord iiifc to Act of CoriKriss, in tJic ytar ISfW, l,y TiiAYKi: .\: i; L I) III rxj E, In the Clerk's Office of tliu Dihtriet Court of tho District of Miv-sachust-ttB. «T r. n KOT V I'K I) AT Til K B08T0M aTEKEOTTI'K fOUNDRY, TO HONEST OLD ABE, OF ILLINOIS, WHO, ALTHOUGH HE HAS OFTEN SPLIT RAILS, won'i ALLOW NORTHERN FREEMEN TO BE 'RODE' ON THEM, THESE NOTES ARE DEDICATEDt IN THE HOPE AND BELIEF, IE HE SHALL BE ELECTED PRESIDENT, THAT IT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE POSSIBLE OR NECESSARY TO MAKE A SIMILAR COLLECTION. Boston, July 4, 1860. " Rftnlr^l, That the mjilntonancc of theprinclplcH promali^atpd in the Decla- ration of IiKlfiM-ndtMic*- aiie self-ovident, that all men an' rre«ti-owers from the cx^nwut of the governed.' " •' Ilfsolrrti, Tliat the new do-ona that the Constitution of its own force carries Slavgnized me. The observance of the recognition by tliese nilfian* eau.-*ed them immediately to release me. Being then wiihitiK any meuns of defence, I was forced to submit to this indignity ; but I ph-dp-d myself to the two that if ever I raupht citlipr of them beyond the State line, North and Smth, I wouUl i»ay them bark with compound interest. . . . J^t WW sai/ to crert/ man iclio travels South iLpon proper and letfithnatf business, to yo prepared to defend himself against indignity or insult^ A MA\-MILLIXi:il SKIZKl) ON SUSPICION. VS an illustration of the annoyance and persecution to wineh strangers are sulijected in the sacred district of Vir;;inin, it U stated by the East Maryland Monitor, of No- vember l.>-2(), that a Mr. Charles Gnittan, of Easton, Md., hired a house ami shop at Harper's Ferry, and he went there with his wife ami fimily, and with goods to open a millinery Rljop. On his arrival, he was dragged at once to the arsenal, and kept in custody, and was subjected to such annoyances for several days that he eonehided Harper's Ferry was not a pleasant pliice to liv** in, and packed up his goods again and retrente«l back to Easton, cursing the stupidity and cowtirdice of i!»r Virginians. I>KMO<:UAT.S PERSECUTIXO A DEMOCRAT. Mli. ('. V. N. MILLS, a travelling agent for Messrs. J. < ). lUo^s tV: Co., proprietors of the Amerionn Nurse- ries in HfK-hestcr, N. Y., is engaged in the South in tlie sale and delivery of fruit trees for his employers. Suspected of Abcililion trndenries, he was once turned out of Kanawha Valley, Virginia, and now, it a|)pears, litis sull'ered some further nnnoyane*-. The roilowhig i»iivate letter to one of hiB fricndj) Id publisht'«l in tli<- Roehester Express of Jan- uarv 21 : Law- of the Suspected. 39 " Hancock County, Va., Jan. 13, 18G0. " Friend : . . . You have probably read or beard of my exit from Kanawha Valley, Virginia, as I find an aecount of it in pretty general circulation in newspapers both North and South. With many others from the North, my business at Kanawha was to deliver fruit and ornamental trees, for which I had taken orders last summer — nothing else ! As you are aware, I have always advocated Demo- cratic Principles ; and to suffer such treatment as I have from members of my own party, is a little more than a conscien- tious Democrat like myself can easily bear. At one place I was allowed two and one half days to commence and finish my business. At another place I was permitted only to stay over night, and then compelled to leave. A man from Ohio, who was engaged in the same business, was escorted to the Ohio River by a committee of three F. F. V.'s, for saying John Brown was a great, good, and courageous man. My letters were opened, and those I mailed to J. O. Bloss & Co. and my wife, were not allowed to leave the State. But from accounts of the treatment of other Northern men, I have no reason to complain of my own. Over in the border county of Hancock, Virginia, the papers not advocat- ing Southern principles are not allowed to be distributed in the post oface. But the majority of the people here are of the Republican stripe. There are but two slaves in this county and but seventeen in the adjoining county — Brooke. Respectfully yours, &c. C. V. N. Mills." — N. Y. Even- ing Post, January 24. "them pesky pedlers." A TELEGRAPHIC despatch from Culpepper Court House says: "A number of pedlers and suspicious characters have been arrested here of late, and it is the in- tention of our citizens to put all strangers through who can- not give a satisfactory account of themselves in confinement." — N. Y. Herald, November 19. 40 Law of the Suspected. — The Wasliingtoii Star mivs : " Tliroii<,^liout Virginia, all unlicensed Nortliern [MMllers aiul stranger.-^, whose conduct is at all suspicious, are being promptly arrested, and are destined to fare baiUy, uidess it is made plain that their sev- eral errands in the South are not Abolition ones. As a mat- ter of cour.-e. many inotlen>ive and unotiending persons will be subjected to no little annoyance in the course of these proceedings. — rhiladel[»liia liulletin, November 25. — The circumstances attending the espionage upon stran- gers sometimes atforded nuicli anmsement. The following dialogue, which took place in tiie Court House yard, between a stranger and one of the inhabitants, furnishes an amusing illustration ; Stuan<;i:i: (to \'irginian) — ^^'hat are you staring at? \ii:(;iNiAN — :! am staring at you. What are you doing in this town ? Stkan'(JKU — Wiiat am I doing? I'm minding my busi- ness, and that's as much as any one man can do, I reckon. ViKGiNiAX — What is your business? Stranger — Minding my business, I tell you. Virginian — You know there is a great excitement here. Strangi:r — 1 don't know, and 1 am darned if I want to know. Virginian — Come, tell me where you arc from? Strangkr — I am from Georgia. ^'IK<;I^IAN — You are not a native of Georgia. Strangkr — No, btit my wife is; that's enough for you. Virginian — Do you know Governor Wise? Stra\(;i;r — No, nor I don't want to know him. ViR«;iNiAN — Do you know President Buchanan ? Strangkr — Y'es, sir'ee; I do know James Buchanan. I take off my hat to President Buchanan, and he takes off his to ine ; and lie says to me, " How do you do ? " and I says, " Very w. II, rn-sidcnt." ViicGiMAN — Do you know Brown? Law of the Suspected. 41 Stranger — Why, darn it, didn't I tell you I know nothing of Brown or Wise either. Virginian — Well, 1 must know your business ; what is it? Stranger — Do you want to know ? Virginian — Yes. Stranger (putting his hand into a capacious pocket, and pulling out a half-pint bottle of medicine) — Well, tiiis is my business ; to get fifty cents for this bottle of medicine, which cures cramp, scalds, bruises, rheumatism, mumps, measles, aiFections in the jaw, and other complaints too numerous to tot up, I reckon. Here a former purchaser of the medicine bore testimony to the genuineness of the article, upon which the catechumen launched forth upon its various merits. This, however, did not save him from visiting the interior of the jail, where* he was detained a short time, and ordered to clear out upon his parole. The next morning the stranger obeyed the injunc- tion. — Charlestown (Va.) Correspondence N. Y. Herald, November 7. — There is something amusing in the following despatch from Charlestown to the Baltimore Exchange : " Brown's speech created the greatest excitement. The citizens look upon it as a trick. The guard has been increased. Three men selling 'patent medicines have been ordered out of town. The people are arming every where, and are ready for any emergency. The good people of Charlestown are right. There is more danger in tliree quack doctors than in the whole armory of Abolition." — Providence Journal, Decem- ber 6. — "In Charlottesville, Va., a man from the North, named Rood, has been arrested on suspicion, and papers found on him sufficiently important to warrant his imprisonment. [He was canvassing for subscribers to a Northern mauazine ; that was his only ofi^ence.] \i\ Danville a clerk at the post 42 Law of the Suspected. otiice saw u iiuin tlirow a letter, which he had just gotten, into the stove, and, taking,' it' out, found it to be a proposition for runninjr otl" Slaves. Th(> man was arrested. Anotlier sus- picious man i- in jail at Union, Monroe county, Va. He has but om- arm, .-ays he is from Baltimore, and that his name is Nicholas .Mitchell." — Baltimore Sun, November 24. INCKNDI.VKY GUANO. ryilK Carlisle (Pa.) Herald (January) says: "Many of our 1 readers are aware that several families, formerly living in the lower part of the county, have recently purchased land in one of the counties of Vir;i:inia, where they have settled in the jx^aeeful pro-ecution of their business. One of the-e men, Mr. Jacob Dorsheimer, from Mechanicsburg, a few weeks ago was hauling home a load of guano; while driving along, one of the barrels was stove in the wagon, and a portion of the guano was strewn along the road. This was seen by some pudding-head, who wisely imagined, from its dark color, that it was powder, and innnediately gave the alarm that Dorsheimer was hauling home j)owder, with the design of furnishing the Slaves with ammunition for an in- surrection. A Committee waited on j\Ir. Dorsheimer, who oft'cred his explanations, and showed them the guano. The Committee, after examination, reported that it looked like guano, it smelt like guano, it tasted like guano, and that, in short, it was guano, and exculpated Mr. Dorsheimer from any insurn-ctionary design. Notwithstanding, the report sj)read, and liiially a meeting was held, and notice given to Dorsheimer and all the Cumberland county men to leave the State in twelve days. Mr. D. has already returned to Me- chanicsburg. Whetlier or not the others will be permitted to remain i-^ uncertain." INVAniXfJ SOrTITERX KICIITS. Mli. (.IIAKLKS II. AA^VTSON, of Kochester, N. Y., inform.-^ u>^ that he is by pi-ofe^sion a imichinist and loc((niotiv«' engini'ci- ; that he has been employed on liie Law of the Suspected. 43 Orange and Alexandria Railroad ; and tliat on tlie 9th of April he was imprisoned in the jail at Alexandria, Virginia, under the following circumstances : On the day named he was standing upon the wharf, in conversation with a negro. Walter Penn, the jailer of Alexandria, asked him what he was doing ; to this question he answered, very naturally, that it was none of his business, that he proposed to talk with whom he pleased, that he did not please to hold any conver- sation with the jailer, and that any further remarks would be out of place. The jailer desired to be informed if Mr. Watson knew whom he was addressing. Mr. Watson stated that he neither knew nor cared. Thereupon the jailer re- tired for a brief interval : then returned with a reenforce- ment of three people. The four took Mr. Watson into cus- tody, and conveyed him to the office of the Mayor, Mr. Taylor. The charge preferred against him. was, that he was a suspicious character, and that he had spoken with a negro. The examination was further continued thus : The Mayor — Have you security to offer to the amount of five hundred and fifty dollars ? The Prisoner — No. The Mayor — Go to jail. And to jail the prisoner was carried. Arriving there he was taunted with his supposed connection with " Old John Brown," then locked up. His hours of liberty were from early morning till five o'clock in the afternoon. When we speak of liberty, we mean room enough to turn about ; for his daily walk was confined to a narrow corridor, while his conversation was restricted by the even naiTOwer bounds of an under jailer's intellect. For food, Mr. Watson had corn meal bread once a day, rye coffee once a day, one fresh herring, one bowl of soup. The coffee was served without sugar ; but the bread had salt in its composition. The incar- ceration of Mr. Watson extended from April 9 to June 4. During that time he was taken out twice — the first time un- dergoing an examination before one Alderman Becker, the second time falling into the hands of the Mayor. Tlie Alder- 44 I-:^'^^' ^^^ ^^^^ Suspected. man asked the prisoner concerning his birtlu parentage, oc- cupation, his tinancial condition, ideas of his probable future if he talked with negroes, and many other things. At the end of the cheerful interview, Mr. Watson was remanded to his herring and his rye coffee and his attempts to skim some- thing from the surface of the under jailer's intellect. When the Mayor had another turn at the prisoner, he talked to him in a fatherly way, on the impropriety of conversing with negroes, and assured him that he could be sent for twenty years to the Penitentiary for what he had done, or for what lie was suspected of doing. The official finally concluded witii the declaration that the law, loving to be kind, would let him go. Therefore, Mr. Watson was put on board a vessel and carried to Wa.-hington. Any other Northern man who does as Mr. AVatson did will be treated in like manner, if not worse, uidess he owns the negro; then he can talk with him or her as much as he chooses. — N. Y. Tribune. A WHOLESALE AVARUANT. rpiIE Ilagerstown Torchlight says : The Governor of X ^Maryland ordered the Sheriff of Washington county to appoint a sufficient number of deputies residing along or near the boundary line between this State and Pennsylvania, and others also residing along the line of the Potomac River, who may be empowered to act with authority of law in case ol' any assembly of unlawful characters, or nK^n whose char- acter and purj)Ose is not known, and to arrest and detain them. In [)ursuance of this order the Sheriff has summoned five hundred men in various parts of the county to act as his special deputies. The Boonsboro' Odd Fellow says : Commissions from the governor, countersigned by the. Sheriff, have been received in this town, giving authority to certain persons to arrest all suspicious characters who may be prowl- ing about or passing along. — N. Y. Herald, November 5. A Dl.Sl'EKATE CRIMINAL SEIZED ON .SUtel'ICION. rpilK Adiian Watehtower, Michigan, nicntioii> the case of X a young man of its acquaintance who had been seized in Law of the Suspected. 45 Kentucky and " placed in the hands of a Committee," simply because he had received letters bearing the 'post-marh of Ober- lin, Ohio! AN OLD KENTUCKIAN IMPRISOXED ON SUSPICION. THE Cincinnati Gazette, (a journal seldom moved to any manly expression of sympathy for any victim of op- pression, or, indeed, to any manly expression on any subject whatever,) mentions, with some indignation, the case of James C. Gardner, an old Kentucky pioneer, seventy-three years of age, who was put in jail two weeks in December last, " on suspicion," as he was returning from Washington. " How the blood in the veins of this pioneer on the dark and bloody ground boiled at such indignity, those who still have faith in the existence of chivalry, generosity, and honesty of purpose can best imagine." True ; but v/hat, then, about the life-long indignities inflicted on four milHons of slaves ? Will you never find one pitying or indignant word for them ? CRUCIFY HIM ON SUSPICION ! THE Knoxvilie Whig recently stated that a Mr. Cregar, of Kochester, New York, whose business in Tennessee was to sell fruit trees and shrubbery, " was taken up by a Com- mittee, and brought before a meeting of our citizens in the Court House, upon the charge of being an Abolitionist. . . . The excitement was very great, the crowd was large, and, at one time, the annoyances threatened to be serious." In the debate that ensued as to what should be done with this Northern man, who had been seized without warrant, who was charged with no offence known to the ' laws, against whom not a tittle of evidence was brought, and yet who found himself arraigned before an illegal tribu- nal as if he bad been a heinous criminal, the Whig tells us that General Ramsay " was for crucifying the man as an example to others, . . . placed all who were not for violence in the attitude of hostility to the South, and launched out against the Union, and in favor uf dissolution." It informs ^.6 Law of the Suspected. us further that "an unfortunate debate sprang up between IMessrs. Park and Charlton," and tliat tlie friends of these gentlemen drew weapons. The New Yorker was banished from the State. NOIITII CAROLINA PEDLER PANIC I)ESOLVED, by the Council of State of North Car- V olina . . . That, whereas, under the cover and disguise of })ursuing peaceful occupations many dangerous emissa- ries from the Northern States have traversed this State, secretly instilling their insurrectionary passions into the minds of our slaves, we advise Ilis Excellency the Governor, to require our Justices of the Peace and other peace officers, to cause all strangers from non-slaveholding States canvassing this State as venders of merchandise, or solicitors for the sale of the same, lecturers, tract and book agents, or for any other purpose whatever, to be subjected to the strictest scrutiny ; and whenever, upon such scrutiny, any suspi(;ious circumstances attach to any such persons, they be placed under bonds to keep the peace and observe the laws of this State, and for failure to give the required bonds, to be con- fined in close prison as persons dangerous to the peace of the State. Adopted unanimously. — N. Y. Herald, Dec. 19. WHITE MEN FINED AND IMPRISONED ON SUSPICION. rpWO young men of this State — James J. Miller, of J- Hartford, seventeen years old, (large of his age, and looking older,) and Emmons J. Coe, of Meriden — have just returned from North Carolina with a rath(ii* uncomfortable exj)erience of the manner in which some of the people of that region observe the Guarantees of the Constitution. They went to Salisbury, Rowan county, about four weeks ago, as travelling agents for L. Stebbins, publisher, of this place, to sell two large and handsomely-illustrated volumes, " The History of the North American Indians," and ''The History of Christ and His Apostles." They took a i-ooin :il ihe Mount \'crnon House, and, alk-r tlioroiiLiiilv canvassing Salis- Law of the Suspected. aj burj {ind the vicinity, they went to Gold Ilill on Monday, Nov. 22, and returned on the evening of tlie 23d. On their way back, in the evening, they met two men returning from Court, who asked, " Do you know Old Brown, the insuri-ec- tionist?" "No." " Well, you look out, or you will be in jail pretty soon." They heard nothing more until Wednes- day morning, when, as they were looking at a fire which broke out in the Methodist church, Coe heard the Mayor say to a man standing by : " Yes, that's the very man ; he stops at the Mount Vernon House." " Are you speaking of me ? " said Coe. " Yes." He handed them his card, and, with Miller, returned to the hotel, whither they were followed by the man to whom the Mayor spoke. In a short time, an officer with five patrolmen, carrying heavy canes, came to their door. Miller opened it, and politely asked them in. He also offered them his trunk, his keys, papers, books, let- ters, &c., and invited them to satisfy themselves as to his character and business. They chose to take the young men directly to the police court. Arriving there, accompanied by a great crowd, a scene ensued supremely ludicrous to any by- stander who could have dared to laugh. Three magistrates presided. The trunks were brought in, the leaves of the books turned over and over, and laid aside for more careful study. The crowd questioned a good deal, and then swore a great deal, and then questioned and swore more. They opened carefully and shook out every shirt and pair of trousers, but no treason appeared. T/ie presiding Magistrate said that there was nothing against them hut suspicion, ykt he thought IT BETTER TO BIND THEM OVER FOR TRIAL before the Supe- rior Court, requiring $500 hail ! They asked Miller and Coe if they were ready to give bail ? " Certainly not," said Miller ; " take us to jail." So they went to jail, with a solemn procession of six officers around them, and ten couples in front, and six more in the rear. They sent for a lawyer, R. H. Moore, who proved himself a frank, generous, sensible friend 48 Law of die Suspected. tliroujj:liout. They bad crowds of visitors daily, asking to sec the "d— (I Yankt'cs" or the "d — d Abolitionists." On Tuesday, the 2'.ttli, tlioy were brought into the Superior Court, and the jji-ox-cuting attorney tuld the Court 'that " these youuf;; men were ignorant of the laws, and, so far as ascertained, had committed no intentional offence, &c. The Judge lectured i]\vm, for icltat f no Oodi/ knew, and told i\wm that on paying tlieir jail fci^>, $1.12, they should be discharged. They paid the bill, but returned to the jail for protection fi*om the mob of " lewd fellows of the baser sort," who mani- fested great anxiety to use tar and feathers. In the evening, the Slieriff escorted them to the hotel, where they kept close. Crowds gathered at the depot, hoping to get a chance at them as they took the cars. On Wednesday evening, November 30, gatherings in the streets indicated a disposition to mob them. On Thursday, at noon, they quietly took a buggy for Lexington, a station some miles di.-tant, where they waited, appearing not to know each other, for the night train. Ex- ce])ting some close questioning at Portsmouth, they met no further ditficulty, and took the steamer for New York We trust that the outrages, of which this is but one sample out of hundreds, will receive a decided reliuke on Wednesday evening from our " Union-Savers," — Hartford (Conn.) Press, December 12. — Tiie Raleigh (N. C.) Register says : '• Wc loam from a friend that a man who says his name is John D. Williams, has bc-en arrested and confined in Hillsborough jail, on a charge of tampering with slaves. He is about 25 years of age, and is travelling as a book agent. He was twice betrayed by slaves, to whom he commu- nicated his Abolition sentiments. He was still in jail on the 3d, [Decem- ber.] Wc would not be surprised to hear that he has been lynched. He no doubt will be, if he should not leave as soon as he is turned out of jail." This is the true story : Mr. .1. D. Williams, who is now canvassing this County as a book agent, has recently returned from North Carolina, where he has had a taste of the beauties of their Peculiar Institutions, and he pronounces them rrri/ peculiar. A few days before John Brown was executed he visiteil f'|'ia])fl Hill, in tbe " C)ld North State." where he found between four uud h\e hundred sludeuL-^ at llie Cull'ge. Having the eminently Law of the Suspected. 49 pious works of old John Bunyan, and Catlin's History of the North Amer- ican Indians for sale, he sought to enlighten these students by calling on them to subscribe. Several did so, and were glad to get the Northern publisher's book ; but soon it was whispered about that he was a spy or an emissary of John Brown, and the whole town, as well as the College, was in an uproar. During one of his visits to the College he was seized by the students, hustled into a room, searched, his private correspondence examined, and, amid sundry threats and much cursing, they pronounced him innocent, and set him at liberty. This trial of the students did not satisfy the citizens, and a warrant was issued for his arrest as a suspicious character. Before the warrant was served he had left for Hillsboro', twelve miles distant. Here he was arrested and taken before a magistrate. The officer who arrested him came with two revolvers and two bowie-knives, and then seemed fearful of the job he was to undertake against an un- armed man. After a hearing, in the midst of great excitement, and frequent threats of whippings from the crowd, he was again discharged, the witness who was summoned against him stating that he knew nothing at all to implicate him. Subsequently another warrant was obtained, accusing him of being an Abolitionist, a suspicious character, and of tampering with slaves. As before, there was nothing found_ against him on this occasion ; but he was thrown into a miserable jail, in a cell with three prisoners, one charged with murder, and there kept from four o'clock on Saturday to twelve o'clock on Monday. When liberated he was ordered to leave town by the next train, only about twenty minutes after. At the hotel he found that his box of books had been unpacked, the papers torn off, and one of them stolen. He asked for time to re-pack his books, and to collect the money due him in the place, but this was refused, and he was obliged to leave with his books tumbled into a box, and his bills for books uncollected. Mr. Williams states that on all the route of the rail- road he was pointed at as a suspicious person, until he reached a Free State, or near enough to be within the influence of civilization. Mr. Wil- liams has since received, through the Post Office, a letter^ which was first sent to North Carolina, and subsequently forwarded to this place. It had been broken open and read by these censors of Southern mails. — Chester County Times, copied into Lancaster (Pa.) Express, December 24. " TO ARMS ! TO ARMS ! YE BRAVE ! " CITIZENS OF CHARLESTON!— Ought you not to call at once a public meeting, appoint a Committee of Safety of each ward to call on every man, and learn whether he is for or against us in the conflict now waged by the North against our Property and our Rights ? Are you aware there are men living in our midst who have no sympathy with us ? Men who make all they can out of us, and then go and live among those who compare " horse-thieves, traitors, and mur- derers to Saints ? " The times demand that all men, South, should be above suspicion — but above all, should Charleston. " Ccesar's wife should be above suspicion." — Charleston (S. C.) Courier, December 6. 5 50 Law of the Suspected. Till-: BRAVES Ur AND AT 'EM. A DENTIST who hud resided in Charleston, S. C, for eighteen months, was waited upon by a committee, who were fortitied by the oaths of two reliable citizens belbre a Magistrate, and notified that, considering his avowed Abo- litionism, he must seek another residence. He immediately left for a milder diuKite. — N. Y. Times, January 17. The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury announces the forma- tion of a C.minittee of Safety in that city, and says that its object will be to aid in the detection, arrest, and proper dis- l>osal of all Abolition sympathizers and emissaries, w^hose presence may be prejudicial to the peace of our community. — N. Y. Times, December 17. WHITE MEN LASHED ON SUSPICION. THE Sylvania (Georgia) News reports that two book agents were treated to thirty-nine lashes each, after the style of " Russian executioners," by a planter in that vicinity, recently, because they had visited his plantation, and ren- dered themselves not only disagreeable by their volubility, but suspicious by their conduct. — Standard (N. Y.), Jan. 21. THIRTY NORTHERNERS BANISHED ON SUSPICION. — A private letter recently received from Savannah, states that notice has been given to some tiiirty persons of Northern birth, in business in that city, to leave within three weeks. The notice is issued by the Georgia Association, which is composed of some four hundred persons. The offence charged is their supposed sympathy with the Anti-Slavery movement, aUhoiKjh they have preserved a discreet silence in reference to the subject. One gentleman, about whom we happen to know, has been in business in Savannah for the past ten years. He has invariably avoided any discussion of the Slavery Question, and refrained from the expression of any opinion respecting it. l>ut, notwithstanding, he was compelled to obey the mandate. ... It is no excuse or apology for such overt acts as have been lately perpetrated in Savannah, that the Law of the Suspected. South take counsel of their fears. Northern citizens, who are in trade in the South, certainly so long as they do not interfere with their local Institutions, have a right to a resi- dence there, and a right to transact business there. If the local authorities do not protect them in this, then it is clearly the duty of the General Government to interfere. — Fall liiver (Mass.) News, December 30. MORE OF THE SAME SORT. — The New York Evening Post, of Dec. 23, says: A gentleman who has been travelling at the South, as the rep- resentative of a New York house, furnishes the following practical proof of the existence there of the most bitter feel- ing towards Northern men : " On the night I arrived at Savannah, a man named Fisk, who has kept a shoe store there for some ten years, was called out of his house, gagged, taken out of the city, covered with a coat of tar and cotton, and given a few lashes on his naked back, and then set at liberty. He was accused of reading the trial of John Brown to negroes in his house evenings, hut many of the citizetis think the charge groxindless. Soon after, a mercan- tile firm (two brothers), doing a heavy business, were ordered to leave the city in two days. I was told that they had been doing business in the city fifteen or twenty years. Against them, and another gentleman ordered away at the same time, I could hear of but one charge — and that was, sym- pathy with the North, and being umcilling to trade in negroes. At Macon, two men were taken from the" through train, and placed in the lock-up until morning, charged with drinking the health of Osawattomie Brown; the next day they were chastised, and started upon the back-track. In Alabama, I met with twelve or fifteen men who were doing a good business, but who were ordered to leave with twelve hours' notice, and for no other acknowledged reason than that they were from the North, and that 'no d — d Northern man should be allowed on that soil.' Not one of these men had lisped a loord against the ' Imtitution.' In South Carolina, a gen- tleman and his lady from New York, were ordered to leave in twenty-four hours, although the husband had lived there tico years, and teas a most conservative Union man. It was conceded that neither the gentleman nor the lady had said or done the least thing of an offensive character ; but they toere sent away because of a determination to ' rid the soil of every Northern man.' In Florida, a gentleman from Connecticut, with his nsso- ciates in trade, w%as ordered away, and had their lives threatened. These persons were of Democratic proclivities, and had all the sympathies of Southerners in respect to the Peculiar I)istituti on. I could give many other instances, for, to my knowledge, more than sixty business men from rariovs farts of the North xcere ordered home without any cause whatever, within the short space of two iceeks. A majority of these I saw and conversed with, and not one of them was ever connected, directly or indirectly, with the Abolition party, and most of them were of Democratic antecedents. They will henceforth be firm Republicans as the result of the gratuitous and gross insults to which they have been subjected." J)^ 2 Law of the Suspected. SIX SALESMEN SENT BACK TO NEW YORK. V LARGE and well-known business liouse in this city, (wlio carry on a large trade with the South in the two articles of liquors and Union-saving,) were greatly surprised to find that their great zeal in getting up the recent Union meeting had profited them nothing among their Southern customers. Six of their salesmen and agents were summa- rily forced to leave the South, and recently returned to their employers. Perhaps the firm will think twice before they sign a call for another meeting at the Academy of Music. — N. Y. Independent, December 29. FOUR NORTHERN MEN BANISHED — ON SUSPICION. NO less than four men, suspected of being Abolition emis- saries, were arrested in our city on Friday and Satur- day, examined before a Committee appointed by the citizens, and finally discharged, with an injunction to leave, with their faces turned Northward — which injunction they seemed to obey, not only readily, but thankfully. We understand that there was no strong positive evidence of very improper con- duct on the part of any of them, and, therefore, we refrain from giving a description of them. It is best for all transient Northern men to have a known and honest business when they come South just now, and we do not condemn the dis- position to expel them if they cannot exhibit such " creden- tials ; " nevertheless, we trust that the people of this and every other Southern community will continue to act coolly and cautiously ; that they will not inflict personal violence without sufficient proof that it is deserved. — Columbus (Georgia) Inquirer, December. HOW A DRUMMER ESCAPED A SOUND DRUMMING. Til?: Griffin (Ga.) Democrat says : " A drummer from the house of II. Bancroft & Co., Philadelpliia, by the name of Gonnally, insulted a gentleman connected with one of our business houses, a few days since, by the use of language not altogether understood, ( ! ) but interpreted, meant opposition to Law of the Suspected. ro Slavery. The drummer, finding he had picked up the wrong customer, made an apology satisfactory to the injured party, and thereby escaped a severe flagellation, which he, no doubt, deserved. Some of these drummers have the impudence of Old Nick. It will do no harm to watch them all. Our motto, when one of them insults a Southern man, upon South- ern soil, is, to show him no mercy, under any circumstances, until he learns to treat with respect the rights and property of those he seeks to make money out of, by a regular system of espionage in divers ways. For ourselves, we are sick and tired of submission in such cases. One or two examples of the right kind would produce a radical change in a short time. The Q. V. X. Q.'s should be on the lookout. They may have some fun." — N. Y. Times, December 29. AN OATH OF EXPURGATION. THE Southern Confederacy, (Atlanta, Georgia,) of January 8, contains the affidavit of two Northern brothers named Williams, clerks in a dry goods store, who had been accused of having drank a toast, proposed by a Mr. Newcombe to the memory of John Brown, in which they deny that they ever did so, or even heard such a toast proposed, and further depose that they utterly detest and abhor all and any Abolition or Anti-Slavery sentiments of whatever description. Notwithstanding these oaths of expur- gation, says the Springfield Republican, of January 25, the Atlanta papers advise the young men to leave ; they want no men about who are not above suspicion on this subject. A MELTING SCENE. DR. MULROE, of South Carolina, the owner of two plantations, and negroes sufficient to work them, was arrested a few days ago, as a suspicious character, by a Vio-i- lance Committee, in Eufala, Ala. The doctor was peddling ploughs, and it was hard to believe that so wealthy a man would turn " travelling Yankee." A friend, who knew the doctor at home, happened to be in town, however, and, hear- 5* 54 i-i^^' ^^^ ^^^^ Suspected. ing of the tlifficulty he was in, went to the phice where the Committee were trying hlin ; and when he entered, and found Dr. M. oecupying a chair, and undergoing an examination, under such pecuHar circumstances, he was so astonislicd that he exchiimed, '' AVhy, Dr. Muh-oe ! " and burst out in a loud laugh, while the doctor, overcome with his feelings, burst into tears, and the sympathy was so intense, that the whole Com- mittee were soon in tears ! As a finale, all pledged them- selves to sell as many ploughs as they could. — Charleston papers ; copied into the Tribune, December 31. A NINE years' resident DRIVEN AWAY FROM ALABAMA. WE have authentic information that a gentleman, who has resided for nine years in Alabama and Georgia, was driven away from home a few days ago, and forced to take a hurried passage to the North, leaving behind him his wife and children, and a thriving business, which must now go to wreclv. Wliat was his crime ? He had not only never spoken against Slavery, but always in favor of it. He honestly held Southern sentiments, and was always ready to avow them, although he never could persuade himself to own a slave. His profession was that of a teacher of vocal and instrumental music. A fortnight ago a book agent was ar- rested in a town in Alabama for soliciting subscribers to " Fleetwood's Life of Christ," published by a Northern pub- lisher. The Methodist Conference was in session at the time, and the case was noticed on the floor of that body. The members advocated the unfortunate agent's immediate expul- sion from the place, on the ground that his continued pres- ence would be dangerous to the existence of Soutliern Insti- tutions ! A paper was drawn up, adopted, and published in the newspapers, setting forth the grounds of their action sub- stantially as Ibllows : " Wc have examined this man's case. We fii\d no evidence to convict him of tamprrinr/ trith slaves ; hut as he is from the Xnrth, and pn{j;aged in selling a bonk puljlished in the North, we have a right to suspect him as Icing an Abolitionist, and we therefore recommend, in order to guard our- Law ut the Suspected. 55 selves against possible danger, that he be immediately conducted by the military out of this county into the next adjoining." Accordingly the militia were called, and the poor book pedler was summoned to receive military honors. But this was not all. The musician, of whom we have spoken, a nine years' resident, whom nobody ever suspected of being an Abolitionist, was called upon to ride at the head of the pro- cession, a?id play the flute I He immediately declined, and took occasion to express his opinion that the agent had done nothing worthy of his expulsion. The procession accord- ingly marched without the flute-player. In the evening, greatly to his surprise, he received an anonymous letter, (whose source, however, he could not fail to detect,) com- manding him, under penalty of tar and feathers, to leave the State immediately. He knew^ the people too well not to be wise enough to take the hint. His wnfe, who was a Southern lady, and had never been in the North, was thrown into great- grief on reading the letter, but advised her husband to leave before daylight, as she feared for his safety if he remained longer. So, at three o clock in the morning, he saddled his horse, and, taking with him what clothes he could put in his saddle-bags, galloped away — an exile from home and friends ! He has since reached a Northern city, and is now making arrangements to bring his family to a place where they can breathe freer air 1 — N. Y. Independent, December 29. mare's nest found with eggs in't. WE heard, on Saturday, that an Abohtionist emissary had been detected at Prattville, in Autauga county, on the previous day, and rather summarily dealt with by the citizens of that village. He was immediately arrested and put upon his trial, wdiich resulted in his being bound over in the sum of ten thousand dollars. It is stated that this fellow had in his possession several letters from some of Brown's men in the North, relative to the plans of that infamous band of rebellionists, and containing advice as to how he should act — what point to fix upon as head quarters, &c. He was 56 L;i\v ot" the Suspected. first arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of McCrabb, and, on examination, those incendiary documents were found about his person. — iMontgomery Advertiser, November 28. WUITK RUICKLAYERS BANISHED FROM LOUISIANA. rpiIK Lafayette Journal has tlie following incident: Two JL well-known citizens of Lafayette, Freeman Patt and Henry Frounfelter, were driven out of Louisiana, a few days ago, on suspicion of entertaining Abolition seiitijnents. The two were brickmasons, and had gone there to build a sugar house for a planter living sixty miles from New Orleans. After having worked about two weeks, they were waited on by the planter, and informed that their services were no longer required. They incjuired the cause of dis- missal, but received no satisfaction, i'urther than a request to leave as soon as possible. It being near evening, and the steamboat landing about five miles from the plantation, they requested the privilege of remaining until morning, which was refused. They then proceeded to the landing, escorted by a number of persons armed to the teeth, who waited until a boat came along, when tliey were hurried on board, and admonished to leave the State and not return. Tlie hint was taken, and the two gentlemen arrived here on Wednesday night, thoroughly disgusted with life at the South. — N. Y. Times, December 29. IV. 0outl)ern ®o0pd Ivniom, How often have our pulpits thanked Heaven that ours is in every deed a Chosen Land of Christian Light and Gospel Freedom ! Wherever, elsewhere, the servants of the Church are persecuted and imprisoned, and suffer stripes for Conscience' sake, here, at least, no such dread evils can befall them ; here, for the Christian ministry, the age of martyrdom is past, and the Millennium of peaceful labor has arrived! Let us illustrate this truth, so gratifying to our national pride, by some recent South-side notes. WHIPPING PREACHERS. THE Cincinnati Christian Luminary, of January 12, pub- lishes an account, in three columns, of the whipping of Solomon M'Kinney. Mr. M'Kinney left Bloomfield, Iowa, last April, for Texas. He is about sixty years old, and has been a preacher thirty years. He is a Kentuckian, a Demo- crat, and understands Slavery to be authorized by the Bible. While living in Texas, he boarded with Thomas Smith, a Slave- holder, of Dallas county, Texas, and a member of the church. Having been requested by Smith to preach on the relative duties of Master and Slave, Bro. M'Kinney did so, and re- flected severely on the inhuman treatment servants sometimes receive. This resulted in the calling of a meeting, which, after having determined to " mobilize " all preachers of Mr. M' Kinney's type, appointed a committee to whip Mr. (57) 58 Southern Gospel Freedom. M'Kinney and a companion of his, both having previously been lodged in jail. Mrs. M'Kinney wanted to enter the jail witli her husband, but was forced back by the mob, and compelled to await the result outside of the town. After dark, seven men came and opened the jail, and took the prisoners out ; then, after divesting them of all their clothing, excepting shirt and pantaloons, they bound their wrists firmly with conls, and one held the cords while a second took a cow- hide, and administered ten lashes ; then another and another, till they had administered seventy lashes. The other, Wil- liam Blunt, was next taken in hand, and served in the same way, — receiving eighty lashes. The shirts of both were cut into ribbons by the raw-hide. They were then unbound, and left to seek their company. Bruised, mangled, and bleeding, tliese wretched men staggered to the place where Mrs. M'Kinney was waiting for them. Their backs were one mass of clotted blood and gore, and bruised and mangled ^flesh. Mr. Blunt is a licensed minister of the Campbellite persuasion, and for twenty-four years has been a citizen of Green county, Wisconsin. The old Democrat has sent a long memorial to the Wisconsin Legislature on the subject of his experience among his Southern brethren, and asking re- dress for the wrongs and outrages received at the hands of the authorities of Texas. The Madison State Journal pub- lishes the document, which created quite a flutter on the Democratic side of the Senate when read ; and no wonder, for in Winconsin the excoriated reverend had distinguished himself by the blatant character of his advocacy of Slavery. The Journal says : "He was particubuly 'gifted' in the Biblical argxmicnt in favor of Slavery ; and, at Republican meetings, was wont to confront the speakers with long and flatulent speeches based upon Mosaic regulations. For more than thirty years, as he tells us in his memorial, the truth of which he attests under oath, he has voted the Democratic ticket. liast year he «vcnt down to Texas in quest of health, expecting a cordial welcome and a comfortable stay anujng the Democratic brethren, whose caiise lie had so faithfully advocated. The se(|uel is not calculated to q)uckpn the ardor of Northern Democrats. The Rev. William Blunt was asked by an old friend and brother to fill some of his appointments ; and, not knowing Southern Gospel Freedom. 59 that his friend had been suspected of secretly cherishing Abolition senti- ments, he acceded to the rccjuest. The result was, that he too fell under the suspicion of being an Abolitionist in disguise — he, tlu- ardent, un- compromising Blunt, a Democrat of thirty years' standing ; and, there- fore, as he relates with due particularity, he was set u])(jn, arrested, his money taken from him, thrown into jail, taken out and treated to eiyhly IdsJies, and, with other indignities and ' spurnings, a posto-iori, not to be named,' told to leave that portion of this free and gel-lorious Republic forthwith without delay, which suggestion he proceeded to act upon with alacrity." PREACHERS TARRED AND FEATHERED. WE learn that Rev. George Candee, Rev. William Kend- rick, and Robert Jones, missionaries of tlie Amer- ican Missionary Association, in Jackson county, Ky., (Jones, a colporteur,) were recently, near Laurel, where they were preaching, waited upon by a Committee of five, and requested to leave. They were engaged to preach the next morning, but were prevented by a mob, which took them a half mile and interrogated them, then took them five miles further and left them, after shaving their hair and beards, and putting tar on their heads and faces. Mr. Kendrick was in the Union Theological Seminary of this city last year. — New York In- dependent, January 5. A METHODIST CLERGYMAN IMPRISONED. WE have to-day to add another to the already long cat- alogue of outrages on the Liberty of Speech com- mitted in behalf of Slavery. Rev. Mr. Howe, a Methodist clergyman in Harrison county, Missouri, was challenged by a Kentuckian neighbor to debate the Slavery question. He accepted the challenge in good faith, and the debate took place, with no unusual circumstances, about six miles from Bethany, the county seat. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Howe was arrested. A man owning three thousand dollars worth of slaves had made affidavit that he was " an Aboli- tionist," and demanded his incarceration in the penitentiary. A prosecution so evidently malicious and absurd did not alarm Mr. Howe until his return to town, when he found that all the lawyers, with one exception, had combined to re- fuse to defend him. Out of this combination were selected 6o Southern Gospel Freedom. W. G. Lewis, Circuit Attorney, and J. W. Wyatt, to conduct the prosecution. The one exception was O. L. Abhott, Esq., a native of tliis State, and a graduate of the Albany Law School. lie undertook Mr. Howe's defence, but was al- lowed no time for })reparation. Notwitlistanding lie offered, in behalf of the prisoner, any amount of bail, and asked that the examination might be postponed, he was compelled to go on immediately, without having had an hour's time to ascer- tain the nature of the case or obtain evidence, and that, too, in regard to an ofience hitherto unknown to the record of crime ! During the examination, the court sustained every objection made by the prosecuting attorneys to questions which were all-important to the interests of the defence. The de- fendant was required to produce all the testimony in his behalf in court at midnight ! At one o'clock, however, the judge, for his own convenience, having other business coming on in the morning, consented to a postponement for two days. In the mean time, all the influences that could be exerted to embarrass the defence were resorted to. When the trial was resumed, the town was filled with people from all parts of the county. The large court room was densely crowded. The evidence closed late in the afternoon. Mr. Abbott summed up his case, assisted, since no lawyer would assist him, by Rev. John S. Allen, who, though a Slaveholder him- self, was not willing to see his town disgraced by such tyranny against Free Speech. Judge Lewis followed in a fanatical Pro-Slavery tirade against the prisoner, his counsel, " incen- diaries," and " Abolitionists " in general, and the case was submitted for decision. That decision will be looked for with interest, even at this distance from the scene. The crime with which Mr. Howe is charged is defined as " littering wordsy the tendency of which is to excite any slave to inso- lence and insubordination," (Missouri R. S., vol. 1, p. 536,) although it was shown in evidence that there was not a negro, bond or frer, within two miles of the place of debate! The Southern Gospel Freedom. 6l penalty for this offence is five years' imprisonment at hard hibor in the penitentiary. During and since the trial, threats have been freely made of " tar and feathers " against tlie prisoner's counsel, and various attempts made to intimidate and drive him from the place. — Albany Evening Journal, March 7. PIETY PROSCRIBED. A YEAR ago last May, Mr, Perley Seaver, of Oxford, Mass., who has formerly worked for W. A. Wheeler, Samuel Flagg, and others of this city, and P. B. Tyler, of Springfield, went to , North Carolina, to conduct a steam saw mill. He was a good, quiet, religious man, always en- gaged in his work, and not interfering in others' business. By his industry and economy he had bought a house, and was snugly settled there, as he thought, for life. As there was no preaching or other religious exercise in the place, Mr. Seaver was wont to call his neighbors together on the Sab- bath to read the Bible and hear a sermon. It was soon rumored in the little village, although the rumor was un- known to him, "that Seaver preached Abolition sermons," and on Saturday night, Christmas eve, he was waited on at a little after one o'clock — rather early on Sunday morning that was — by a large delegation of his neighbors. At first he refused them admittance ; but as they gave their names as some of the most respectable persons in the neighborhood, and threatened to break in the door, he struck a light and admitted them. They demanded his books and papers, and he showed them. They then asked for his private letters, and they ransacked all his correspondence with his family. They then asked how many negroes had ever attended his religious meetings. He told them five. They told Mr. Seaver they did not consider him a safe man to live there, and he must leave. He offered to go on Monday morning if they would buy his property. This they refused, but told him he might have twenty days to sell out, but that during 62 Southern Gospel Freedom. that time no negroes must be seen on his premises. ISIr. Seaver found it impossible to sell his property, and therefore came olf witliin the twenty days with his wages. He has now returned, forced away from his property and his business, beciiuse he had read the Bible on Sundays, in a room where negroes were sometimes present. — Worcester (Mass.) Tran- script, January 17. — On this incident the Burlington Free Press, of January 30, makes these pertinent comments: It has been commonly supposed that men at the South, pursuing their honest av(jc;itions, and minding strictly their own business, would not be molested. But that state of things is becoming obsolete, if we may judge from the light of the fnregointr. The subject is farther illustrated by the Atlanta ((ia.) Conffdcracy, which suggests the following as a shibboleth for Northerners wlio desire to visit the South : " We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the Institutions of the South who does not boldly declare that he or she believes African Sla- verv to be a social, moral, and political blessing. Any person holding other than these sentiments, whether born at the South or North, is un- sound, and should be requested to leave the county." Were a like requirement with this to be published from Italy, the world would cry out. Shame ! A PREACHER BANISHED. IN North Carolina, Rev. Alfred Vestal has been forced to leave his work, by the spirit of violence which has re- cently broke out there. He is now in Indiana. A Christian sister in North Carolina writes that the immediate cause of his leaving was his having learned that warrants for his ar- rest, on charges similar to those against Mr. Worth, were issued, both in Randolph and Guilford counties. — N. Y. Independent. A " COXSERVATIVE MINISTER" BANISHED. « rf^HE Rev. B. C. Smith, of Prattsburg, is sojourning temporarily in the I ' Old North State,' having the double object in view of benehtini' his J- health, and laboring in his calling with such ability as is left to liim. lie went out under the auspices of the Southern Aid Society, after having correspondence with a prominent public functionary of Nortli Carolina. At Washington he was warmly welcomed by Hon. John A Gilmer, of that State, and furnished with kindly passports to the contidence of tlial gentle- man's family and friends. He carries with him the earnest hope of troojjs of friends that the mild Southern skies may be bcneHcial to hun, and that there, as here, he may have strength to proclaim tliosc essential doctrines of Christianity which he so well understands, and which alone constitute • the glorious Gospel of the blessed God.' " We copy the above from the last Advocate. Before Southern Gospel Freedom. 63 its publication, the Rev. B. C. Smith had returned from the "Old North State," without "having proehiimed" to its citizens " those essential doctrines of Cliristianity which he so well understands," and without having ma- terially benefited his health. Notwithstanding he went thither under the auspices of the Southern Aid Society, and with " passports " from Hon. John A. Gilmer, the fact that he had breathed the air of Freedom was an insuperable objec- tion, and he was not allowed to enter a pulpit. Learning that a Methodist brother was in " durance vile " across the way, on suspicion of entertaining Anti-Slavery sentiments, the Rev. B. C. Smith bade adieu to " mild Southern skies," and returned to his Northern home. Mr. Smith was regarded here by a portion of his congregation as " Pro-Slavery," and would have been the last man in the world to give offence to the advocates of the Peculiar Institution ; but he has re- turned the victim of, if not a firm believer in, the " irrepressi- ble conflict." — Northern Christian Advocate, February 1-7. AN OUTRAGE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN VERSIONS. A BOOK pedler, named Alberton, was arrested in Marion, Alabama, on the 3d inst., [December.] The Marion American says : " He was arrested about eight o'clock this A. M., and carried to Cahaba, where, it is reported, they have the documents showing him to be one of the original men to be stationed on the line of the published Brown Map.* We learn from Marshal Curtis that there is sufficient proof, found in the prisoner's trunk, to convict him beyond a shadow of a doubt of being an emissary. If so, the Lord have mercy on his soul ( ?) for we know the people of Cahaba well enough to feel confident that they will give him full justice, terrible as it may be." — Richmond De- spatch, December 8. — This is the true account : * The Map left at the " school house," by Kagl, before the attack on Harper'8 FeiTy, to deceive the Southerners as to the future route of John Brown's men. 64 Southern Gospel Freedom. " Gi.ASTiCNiU'RV, Conn., Dec. 2S, 1859. "The Hov. Mr. Alberton was brouijht to his home — three miles from here — last Friclav, with one leg broken and his hoiid and arm bruised, by a fall frouj the cars, on his way home from Alabama, where he went a few weeks since, in the employ of" Mr. Stebbins, of Hartford, peddling books. He was arrested after theJohn IJrown invasion, on suspicion of evil de- signs, and imprisoned twelve days. The suspicion was founded on a pas- sage found in a letter to another person, in the same business, from Mr. Stebbins. The suspicious sentence was this: 'Take the best men, be faithful, do your work thoroughly ; my agent in this section is the Rev. Mr. Alberton, whose head quarters is at .' I don't recollect the name of the plare. On this expression they founded a suspicion of treason, and sent forthwith to the place and arrested Mr. A., and the mob gathered around and cried out, ' Shoot him ! shoot him ! ' ' Hang him ! hang him ! * He was searched, tried, and false charges were brought against him, and he was thrust into prison. He was so e.vcited that he finally had turns of derangement. His case being reported to Mr. Stebbins, lie procured the testimony of persons in Hartford, Governor Seymour, and others, who could be' trusted, and he was released, and paid sixty dollars for false im- prisonment. He was put on board of a steamer on the Alabama River to Montgomery, and thence bv cars came home. In a fit of derangement, he jumped out' of the cars th'is side of New Haven, and lay from six P. M., Thursday, to three A. M., Friday, when he was found, and accompanied to Hartford, I saw him on Monday of this week. He is very feeble, and lies prostrate, bruised, and mangled, like the 'man who went from Jeru- salem to Jericho, and fell among thieves.' He is unable to talk much vet, he is so exhausted and excited. He has a family consisting of a wife and six children ; is an Englishman by birth ; has preached in this part of the town five years, and has preached in this country about ten years. He owns a house' in Manchester, and suspends preaching on account of the inconvenience of moving about with a family of small children. He is a wliolc-souled, large-hearted Englishman and Christian ; a man of unblemished moral character, and in good standing. He spent last winter in North Carolina, and preached at times on the Sabbath to his own and all other denominations. F. Sxow." — Rev. Mr. Green, an aged minister of the M. E. Church in Kanawha county, Virginia, was arrested and held to trial "for uttering seditious sentiments." The testimony against him was ludicrous. The Kanawha Republican (Feb- ruary) gives this account of the arrest : " A man by the name of Hughes testified that as he was about twenty yards from the road where Father Green was riding by alone, he heard him muttering to himself these words: ' That the slaves must and ought to be free, and that he would walk up to his knees in blood to free them.' Father Green says that he sometimes talks to himself when alone, and sometimes pravs as he rides along; he can't tell what he was talkmg about, or whether he was muttering any thing when Hughes may have seen him; but one thing he knows, that nothing can be more foreign or abhorrent to his feelings and sentiments than the idea conveyed by the words imputed to him. This Hughes, we learn from a respectable gentle- man, is a sorry creature." The Pittsburg Advocate says: "Father Green is about seventy years of age, and has been for many years a faithful pioneer preacher." Southern Gospel Freedom. 65 IMPRISONMENT OP REV. DANIEL WORTH. THE misfortunes of the Rev. Daniel Worth, of Nortli Carolina, recently imprisoned for having sold a Repub- lican pamphlet, has created much interest in his case through- out the Northern States. His trial is thus described by a bitter enemy — a correspondent of the New York Herald — which we give here in preference to any account by his friends : " Greensboro', N. C, Dec. 2G, 18-39. "Correspondence of the New York Herald. " On Friday, the 23d inst., Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, a native of this State, but who has been residing until within two years past in Indiana, where he was formerly a member of the Legis- lature of that State, was arrested by the Sheriff of this county on a charge of selling and circulating ' Helper's Impending Crisis,' and also of utter- ing language in the pulpit calculated to make slaves and free negroes dis- satisfied with their condition, thereby offending against the laws of the State.* He was brought befwe the magistrates of the town, and a partial hearing had, when the case was adjourned until the following afternoon at one o'clock, for the purpose of procuring the attendance of witnesses for the prosecution. The prisoner was taken to jail, — bail having been refused by the magistrates. On Saturday, at the appointed hour, the Court met. The examination was held in the old Court House, which was crowded. The prisoner had no counsel, but managed his own case. Messrs. Scott, Dick, and McLean, of the Greensboro' bar, were engaged in the prosecu- tion. Over a dozen witnesses were examined, and it was conclusively proved that Worth had on many and various occasions uttered such senti- ments in the pulpit against slavery as the State of North Carolina de- clared to be unlawful to be uttered. It was also proved by a witness that he (the witness) had purchased from Worth a copy of ' Helper's Impend- ing Crisis.' AVorth acknowledged during the examination that he had been engaged in circulating Helper's book, and also a work on the ' War in Kansas,' but that he did not consider it any harm to circulate them; that at first he did not intend to admit having circulated the former, but that he wanted to make them, as a lawyer would, bring evidence to sub- stantiate the charge. During the examination, various extracts were read from ' Helper's Impending Crisis,' some showing the tnodus operandi by which Slavery '^vas to be got rid of in the South, and others pretending to give facts, all of which were commented on by the various counsel for the State. It was also proved that Worth had, in the pulpit, on the Sabbath day, applied the most opprobrious epithets to the legislators of the State of North Carolina, saying that the laws ought not to be obeyed; that ' they were made by a set of drunkards, gamblers, and whoremongers.'* The prosecution was opened by William Scott, Esq., Avho, in his remarks, eloquently described the inhuman tendency of the doctrines inculcated and taught in this work of Helper's, which this traitor to the State of his birth has been engaged in circulating. He read many extracts from the book, and showed how grossly perverted were the facts pretended to be therein set forth — that they were base lies and calumnies on the South. Robert P. Dick, Esq., made "some highly effective and stirring remarks ; he was glad that this case of AVorth's had come up here in old Guilford ^■•TlicHe charges were false: Mr, Worth always carefully avoided any snob lan- guage. — Ed. 6* 66 Southern Gospel Freedom. county — a county that had the reputation of being an Abolition county ; tliat a warrant had already been issued from Raleif^h for this Daniel "NVorth, but that this was the best place for him to be tried, that the result of this examination niijiht now go forth as a vindication from the foul aspersion cast upon it. lie spoke of Helper as a traitor to the State that had once claimed him as a Xorth Carolinian, adding that this man who sought, in his ' Impending Crisis,' to array the North against Slavery, and bring about bloodshed and anarchy, and to desolate and lay waste the beautiful South, to dissolve the glorious Union, which had been given us by the wisdom of our forefathers, was obnoxious to the law under other criminal charges.* He prayed and trusted that the Union would never be dissolved. Robert McLean, Esq., took up the question at issue. The very doctrines that the prisoner had been disseminating in his remarks from the pulpit, and which were contained in ' IIeli)er's Impending Crisis,' which book he had bceti proved to have circulated, were at utter variance witli the laws of the State of North Carolina, and it was upon this charge that he was now undergoing his examination. He read several extracts from Helper's work, commenting on them in a clear, forcible and telling manner. His remarks on the ways and means of abolishing Slavery, as set forth in the ' Impending Crisis,"' were very sarcastically commented on, and were much apphuided by the large aiulience present. He read from the 'Impending Crisis' the" names of Cheever, Chapin, and Bellows, of the clergy of the North, as being engaged in the advocacy of those prin- ciples which were to dismember tiiis Republic, and the name of the Rev. Daniel Worth as a Southern co-laborer. It was extremely difficult to restrain the applause during the delivery of the remarks of all the legal gentlemen who spoke — the Court freqvicntly interfering, and insisting Tijjon order being ()l)served. Previous to the remarks of Robert McLean, Esq., the prisoner delivered his defence. He attempted to argue the evil of Slavery, and to try and convince the Court that he was right in preach- ing against it. He was twice requested by the Court to stick to the point at issue ; that thexi were not here to listen to a discussion on Slavery, but to near what he had to say in reply to the charges brought against him of violating the laws of North Carolina. The prosecution requested the Court to let him go on. The prisoner then continued his remarks at con- siderable length on Abolition, until the Court told him that it had- listened long enoH(/h to that strain, and desired him to speak as to the charges brought a"^gainst him. The prisoner then spoke as to his course having been consistent with his calling as a preacher and as a man ; that when he heard there was a warrant out for his arrest, he had started for this place to surrender himself; that in his preaching and practice, he had only been doing what others in the State had long ago been doing unmo- lested ; that he was a peace man and a Union man ; that he souglit not to dissever the Union ; that he did not indorse all the sentiments contained m Helper's work; that he had formerly been a magistrate in this county; that he had been living in Indiana many years, and came back to North Carolina about two years since, to benefit the health of an invalid wife ; that that wife had died, and he had married again, and had been engaged in preaching in several counties since; he was not conscious of having violated the laws of the State, either in his calling as a preacher, or as a circulator of ' Helper's Impending Crisis.' The Court ordered him to find bail in $'."),(K)0 for his appearance at the next term of Court, and the same amount to keep the peace until that time. Bail for the first was oliered, but up to the present time of writing, the other bail has not been obtained. It is said that, should the prisoner be released on the above bail, he will •It is hnnlly m-cosHary to say hero that Mr. Iliilper is h man of personal worth, as well ns ail eailii'St Soutboni Abolitionist, and that this assirtion of Dick's is a base aud cowardly slander. — Kd. Southern Gospel Freedom. 67 be taken before his Honor, Judge Dick, who will refuse to t.ikc bail for him. At the close of the examination, remarks were made by Ralph Gor- rell, Esq., and Robert P. Dick, Esq., to the effect that the public mind was much excited by this examination, and that threats had been made as to a disposition of the prisoner; but tliat they would recommend the people to let the law take its course, and not to do any thing to militate against its authority, now that the prisoner was in its hands. The Rev. Daniel Worth is a large, portly man, with a fine head, an intellectual and expres- sive countenance, and a large, commanding eye. He is fluent in speech, and the general style and manner of his speaking are calculated to win attention. He did not appear to be at all embarrassed or frigbtcncd at his position ; on the contrary, he expressed his ideas and opinions with boldness and fearlessness. He complained to the Court of the imfitness of the jail for a prison, it being extremely cold weather, and no fire in the building; he had passed one night there, and was fully competent to ex- press an opinion on the subject. Mr. Worth was a man raised in this county, is sixty-five years old, and emigrated to Indiana and Ohio, and no doubt to Kansas.* He was in the Legislature of the first-named State, acting as sub-chairman in the Convention that nominated Fremont for President. I was glad to see that mob law was not exercised on him ; but there is no doubt but that the punishment prescribed for this offence by the laws of North Carolina will be fully meted out to him, which he and all others deserve who engage in such hellish work. This man has been an eyesore to this community for eighteen months. Nothing but good feel- ings for the respectable family who bear his name has prevented him from incurring thesame fate months ago. A clean sweep may now be expected by all wiio advocate such vile doctrines as those disseminated. Any man w-ho is found with a volume of the 'Impending Crisis,' or the sequel to it, will be held strictly accountable how he came by it. I am fully satisfied that if the course is persisted in which has already been attempted by our Northern Abolitionists, the North will suffer much in her trade with the Southern States, to say nothing of the political consequences attending it. It is as well to state that the punishment for the first offence of this kind tinder the statute laws of North Carolina is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, it is death, as meted out to John Brown and his fellow-associates at Harper's Ferry." Such is the account as published by the enemies of Worth. The letter subjoined is from a lady of North Carolina to an officer of the American Missionary Association : "Guilford Couxty, N. C, Jan. 13, 1860. " At present, we are circumstanced something like the children of Israel, when they started for the Land of Promise, pursued by Pharaoh and his Host, with the Red Sea before them, and mountains on either hand. Still we hope to see the salvation of the Lord, relying on the arm of Jehovah for protection. I suppose, ere this, you have seen some accovmt of the Rev. D. W^orth's arrest and commitment to prison, in Greensboro', Guilford county, N. C, charged with circulating incendiary books, &c., principally the ' Impending Crisis,' by Helper, — which seems to be attracting more attention, at present, than all other books put together. Brother Worth was arrested on the 23d of last month; had a preUminary trial before three magistrates on the 24th, which resulted in his commit- ment to prison to await further decision at the Spring Term of the Superior Court. There was great excitement during his trial ; three lawyers ap- peared in behalf of the State ; the prisoner pleaded his own cause in an able manner — his enemies themselves being judges. Since then, there have been five other arrests of citizens of this county for circulating * This last supposition is incorrect. — Ed. 68 Southern Gospel Freedom. ' Helper,' most of them under heavy bonds, but all admitted to bail except the Hrst. The nature of the bonds reqiiired of him was considered un- reasonable. The hrst was a bond of if'o.OUO for his appearance at the Spring Term, wliich was com])li('d witli ; the other was $.5,0()() also, re- quirintc him not to preach at all. This is not cuniplitd with, yet. Not content with the above, he was arrested again, in prison, and brought out yesterday before Jud^e Dick, and bound in the sum of S"o,OOU to appear at the Spring Term, in Randolph county, in March. His enemies seem de- termined to push the law to the furthest extremity, but the old veteran has been happy )ieyond description, and filled with joy unspeakable. His keepers observe the strictest vigilance, not allowing even his wife to speak a word to him without witnesses being present ; nor do they suffer him to write a word to any person, only what passes under their inspection. They made an attempt yesterday, during his trial, to deprive him of the means of writing at all ; but finally concluded to let him have two or three sheets of paper at a time, by his giving an account to the sheriff what dis- position he made of it. One object seems to be to cut off all correspond- ence with friends, and indeed all the friends of liberty here must suffer likewise. They say that it is against the law to say Slavery is wrong, and they have pronounced the woe ; the decree has gone forth against all such otfenders. I trust and believe there is a remnant who will trust and fear God more than man, even in this land of intolerance and usurpation ; and 1 hope that all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity will remember us at the Throne of Grace, that we may be able to withstand all tiie fiery darts of the wicked ; also, that our aged minister may be delivered from wicked and unreasonable men." The next account that we had of Mr. "Worth was from the Randolph County (Indiana) Journal, which said: " We have just heard from Mr. Worth, through his nephew, Rev. A. Worth. He is still in jail. His bail bonds would have been filed, but there were several sheriffs hanging around the jail door from other coun- ties, to arrest him as soon as he should come out of Greensboro' jail. His wife and friends are not permitted to visit him. His cell is wholly unsuitable for any person to live in. His only bedding is a dirty pallet. The jail is strongly guarded. Some of the Quakers who were imprisoned have given bail, and are now out of jail. Several of them were leading and influential men." Three days after his incarceration Mr. Worth wrote a let- ter, from which we make an extract, to show what manner of man he is whom the vSlave Power has threatened with imprisonment and the pillory : " Greensboro' Jail, December 26. "I have been three days incarcerated in this jail on charges of a breach of the criminal laws of this State, in preaching and selling incendiary books, Helper's Impending Crisis, &c. The excitement on my prelimina- ry trial was great. I plead my own cause, but three lawyers were against me. My bonds were fixed at ten thousand dollars — a very modest sum in which to bind a preacher. My securities will file my bonds this afternoon, when I sliall attain have temporary liberty. My trial will come on in April, and, though conscious of no offence against any Just law, not even against the laws of North Carolina, in consequence of the great prejudice, added to the tremendous excitement, I can hardly hope to escape. The punishment, if convicted, is pillory, whipping, and imprisonment. Yes- terday, the anniversary of the Savmur's Advent, I spent in my prison in reading my Bible and prayer. I seemed to hear my Saviour's voice asking, Southern Gospel Freedom. 69 ' Art thou ready to suffer for my sake ? Canst thou enter into dunf^eons for thy Saviour's love, and suffer shame for my sake ? ' When I came to the point, and could say, 'Yes, Lord, I am willing to suffer thy righteous will in all things,' He poured His love into my snul so boundlessly that I shouted aloud for joy. And let me say that I fully believe if I am sen- tenced to confinement or other punishment, God will glorify His numn by my suftering for Him as much as though I was at lilierty and working in His vineyard. O, let me have the prayers of my dear Christian brethren every where, that my faith fail not, and that I may in patience possess my soul. Yours, in the love of that Saviour who suffered shame for us, D. Worth." Mr. Worth was finally released on bail of $3,000, which he now (July 4, 1860) proposes to forfeit, if he can raise that sum in the North. He got out of jail on a motion for a new trial. If he fails in raising that amount, he will return to North Carolina, to be imprisoned and lashed. He ended a speech, recently delivered in New York, in these words : '* Referring again to the character of the law, he stated the facts in re- lation to a Congregational church in North Carolina, which had as one of their bonds of union an article refusing to Slaveholders membership with them. This fact becoming known, some of their leading members were indicted, and the pastor compelled to flee for his life. Would this audi- ence tell him of despotism in Austria or under Napoleon ? They need not travel over the water to find it. If that was not despotism they had no need of such a word in our vocabulary. But such was the law of the Christian State of North Carolina, where members of the Church love the Lord Jesus Christ and sell his image. . . . He thought the audience should be convinced that to find intolerance and fettered speech it was not neces- sary to go to France or Austria. It could be found m a much worse form inihe Southern part of this Union." — How long, Christians of the North, shall this Organized Anti-Christ — the Southern Slave Power — be permitted to act its barbarous pleasure unrestrained by the hand of the Federal Government? drijc Slj'iDcving Cljiimlnj. WITHERED be the tongue tliat ever wags a doubt of the chivalry of the men of the Southern States! Indeed, witli such recent illustrations as these incidents subjoined, how could a doubt be cast on a character for chiv- alry so old as theirs, and so very often self-proclaimed? Chivalry has three distinguishing forms of manifestation — courtesy or devotion to woman ; calm courage amidst wars and rumors of wars ; and, lastly, but preeminently, a tender regard for the rights of the poor and lowly. Let us illus- trate the chivalry of the South by incidents grouped around these three heads. COURTESY TO WOMAN. rpiIE Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer, (Dec. 1-7,) pub- X lishes the statement of a blind girl, who was recently expelled from Martinsburg, Va., on suspicion of being an Abolitionist. She says : "Some of the people treated me kindly enough, but the lady of the house insisted that I was an Abolitionist; that, coming as I did from Indiana, I was not entitled to belief. A gentleman came into my room uninvited, and (jtirstioned me in an imjmdcnt rnanner. I applied to a minister, who said he would be glad to assist me, but would advise mo not to stav during the excitement. It was in cousi'(iiumicc of tliis that / iras conipilled to Irave." " In addition to tliis, the coiuluctor of tlie train upon which the blind lady and her sister arrived, told us, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, that the ladies were not i)ermittcd to remain. He was asked if he knew them, and upon replying that he did not, was told that * they could not ntny there' " — The New York Evening Post tells the following inci- dent of Virginia life : (70) The Shivering Chivalry. n\ The instances of gross and tyrannical injustice perpetrated in the boutliern btates against those who are known or suspected to fail of sym- pathy with the prevailing ideas respecting Slavery, have hecoruo so coui- mon, that the papers have almost ceased to record them in detail A recent case, however exhihits, like that of Crangale at Savannah, M.ch cool contempt of moral and legal ol)ligation, and, moreover, such a ridiru- lous disproportion between the alleged otience and tlie penalty inflicted that we are tempted to make it public. Not long since. Mademoiselle lavarger, an accomplished French lady, the daughter of a Protestant clergyinan at Pans, was engaged in this city as a teacher of French in the Old Dominion Female Institute ' at Richmond, Virginia. Here she con- tinued to discharge her duties under an unconditional engagement for a year, with a like engagement for a second year, on the sole condition that she should be found competent, until the latter part of November last just before the execution of John Brown. Md'Ue Favarger seldom saw any papers, took no interest in politics, and never in any way broached the subject then uppermost at Richmond. Not speaking English perfectly she failed to appreciate the absorbing interest which was concentrated upon the atfair at Harper's Ferry. But luckily or unluckily she was a woman, and had a woman's heart, and was so unfortunate as not to under- stand that she was where she was expected to deny her natural emotions and pretend to be what she was not. Accordingly, when, a day or 'two before the memorable second of December, one of her zealous pupils said to her, 'Mademoiselle, Old Brown is going to be hung on Friday, aren't you glad?' she replied, 'No, my dear, I am not glad; I pity poor Brown, tor i think he thought he was doing right.' That was all ; but it was enough. Instantly the young spies flew to head-quarters and denounced the traitor. There was no hesitation, no pity. Engagements made with a woman who could utter such atrocious sentiments when directly interro- gated, were only made to be broken. Mademoiselle Favarp-er, who never dreamed of the torch she had applied to the proud fabric of Viro-inia's prosperity, was astonished when she was informed of her sin and its con- sequences. But remonstrance was vain, and she returned to New York, with the following certificate from the principal of the school: .,,„,. . '"Richmond, Va., December 2, 1859. Ihis is to certify that Md'lle Sophie Favarger has been employed in my school as teacher of French. I regard her eminently qualified to teach her native tongue. She gave, so far as I am aware, entire satisfac- tion (m her teaching) to the patrons of the school. She has been dis- missed from the school simply on account of the Anti-Slavery sentiments she pubhcly expressed before the school. T. L. Gallkhkk, " 'Principal Old Dominion F. Institute, Richmond, Va.' " It should be added that Md'lle Favarger never taught nor appeared " before the school," but received her classes at her own quarters. — The New York Independent relates a similar story : ** Two intelligent young ladies, formerly well known in the choirs of churches m Boston and Hartford, went to Richmond in September last, with a view of establishing a private school. They soon gained the confi- dence of many friends, and succeeded in starting an enterprise which gave fair prospect of speedily prospering. As soon as the recent excite- ment began, they were waited upon by some very respectable gentlemen, who informed them that Northern school-mistresses, however amiable and competent, were not the proper persons to teach the children of Southern parents and guardians ! The ladies were forced immediately to break up their school. VTishing, on account of their health, to remain in a South- 2 The Shivering Chivalry. cm climate, and hearing of a vacancy in a school in another city in Vir- ginia, they made application and presented their letters. They received a reply from a l•U■r^yman, who wrote to them as follows : " 'The Board of Trustees met yesterday, and passed upon the various applications, yours among the rest. I deeply regret to say, that although your recomnK-ndations were altogether the most favorable, your proposal was immediately rejected, as soon as the fact became known that you •were both from tlie North. The feeling is so strong, and the foolish excitement has run so high, on tlie subject of Northern people, that the community here seem almost blind; and if they continue in ttieir present policy, they will lay themselves open to severe criticism, if not to censure.' •• Accorciinuly, the ladies, being compelled to leave Richmond, and unable to find a place for the soles of their feet any where else in Virginia, and knowing the usdessness of going further South, took an early train to New York."' — New York Independent, December 29. — Here is an authentic illustration of the same spirit, further West: " Several Cincinnati ladies were travelling down the Mississippi, and while the steamer was letting off freight at a station, went ashore for a walif. Dr. Horton, the owner of the plantation, sent a negro to order them off, to which they paid no attention, when the chivalric Doctor him- self informed the ladies that he ' didn't want people, male or female, from 60 abolition a hole as Cincinnati, prowlipg about his premises.' The la- dies retired." — About 1 o'clock last Friday night, the Alexandria Artil- lery, numbering some forty men, with two pieces of cannon, under command of Major DufFey, arrived in this place via Manassas Gap Railroad and Winchester. . . . They all returned about dark, without finding any thing suspicious, or arresting any one. They searched several houses-^ among them the unoccupied tenement of the notorious John C. Underwood — but found nothing worthy of consideration. Upon application for entrance into the house of a known Abolitionist, the wife of the man living there (her husband being absent) seized an axe and defied their entrance. They finally wrested the weapon from her grasp, but not without first giving her a bayonet wound on the arm. — Berry ville (Va.) Conservator, December 5-10. — One of our passengers was sent from the steamer, on our arrival this morning, to the cars, and started on the way back to Boston ; and it served her just right, as she was very outspoken in her condemnation of Southern Institutions. — Letter from Charleston, dated December 13, in New York Express, December 17. The Shivering Chivalry. -73 CALM COURAGE IN DANGER. rpPTE volume might be written in eulogy of the poeuliar JL courage — the prudential valor — manifested by the Slavemasters after John BroAvn's invasion of Virginia. Tempting as the field is, we will not enter it, but leave it for the old hero's biographers. One or two incidents are all that we can give here. — The Oxford (Mississippi) Mercury, January 24, says : *' Considerable excitement was produced in our neighboring town of Abbeville, last Sunday and Monday, by a gang of ten pcdlers. Some stories represent them to us as having been Irish or German, and others that they were Abolitionists, endeavoring to stir up an insurrection. The neighborhood became greatly alarmed ichen they apjjeared, as so many of that kind of traders do not often travel together. They were, the whole ten, arrested on Monday, and taken to Abbeville and examined, but no proof ivas elicited against them, except that several were operating with- out license. They xoere ordered to leave the State tcithin a given titne." — The Baltimore Clipper, of November 11, says: " Friday night last, a negro man belonging to Washington "Waller, Esq., of Somerset county, Md., was shot dead by a patrol of white men in Dames Quarter District. The circumstances, as we learn from the Union, were substantially as follows: On Thursday night an alarm of insurrection and murder was given at a meeting house in the neighborhood. The congre- gation were at prayers at the time the alarm was given. The prayers were forgotten, and the utmost confusion and excitement prevailed. The benches were broken up for clubs, and with these, and such weapons as the men could obtain at the time, they scoured the neighborhood, but finding nothing upon which to vent their indignation, they dispersed, still under great excitement. The following night a patrol was organized, and with guns, clubs, and other weapons, they proceeded under great excite- ment to search the huts of the free negroes in the neighborhood ; at one of these huts the unfortunate negro was found. He was attempting to escape when fired upon by the excited crowd, who mistook him for an insurgent. The shot pierced his back, taking effect in his lungs and bowels, and producing instant death." — The Baltimore Republican, November 30, says : " On Sunday last, an incendiary letter was picked up in St. Michael's, which purports to give the outlines of an extended insurrectionary move- ment in Maryland and Virginia. It states the very improbable fact that over 12,000 men are engaged in the crusade, who can instantly recognize each other by a look in the eyes whenever they meet. The plot contem- plates the capture of the city of Baltimore, by "the aid of 40,000 men from the North, the time to be fixed by a State Convention of the crusaders, to be held in this city. The name and date of the letter were both torn off. This 7'idicidous document created great excitement among the good people of Talbot. Patrols were immediately formed in the St. Michael's District, and a strong guard placed in Easton on Sunday night. A public meeting of the citizens of the County took place in the Court House at Easton yesterday afternoon, to take into consideration the existing state of affairs, but we have not learned the result of their deliberations." 7 Tht.' Shi\frin0 are to be imposed upon those who disobey orders to perform patrol duty whenever Major Davenport, the othcer left to protect the city, may call for their services. Seven men each from ei<>;ht companies were on patrol duty last night, and a special detachment was s.ent to guard the powder magazine on the other side of the River Appomatox. Tliese war- like preparations are, of course, a serious interruption to all business in the city, and the suspicions which are excited by them contribute to the same result. If five or six negroes are seen talking together, they are speedily magnified by rumor into a hundred, armed with pitchforks and scythe l)lades. Beggars are arrested and put into jail, and strangers, if they happen to be poorly dressed, are accosted by the ])olice and examined. Two of tiiis class, who were found a night or two ago, had in tlieir posses- sion a tin cup and a whiskey flask, witli a little spirits in it, supposed to be of Nortliern manufacture, an old jackknifc, and a piece of string. They were ordered to leave tlie city immediately ; but before they hr.J time to comply with the injunction they were again taken into custody." The Kinilerhook (New York) Rough Notes, January 18- 25, relates the following thrilling incident : " In December (18;39), one of the peaceable and exemplary Shakers from New Let)anon, in this county, was on his yearly tour through south-west- ern Pennsylvania and the adjacent parts of Virginia, peddling his garden seeds, or, rather, supplying his old customers with their usual stock for the ensuing spring demand. While quietly moving along the highway with his horses and wagon, with a close box in which his seeds were packed, secure from rain and fogs, and without even knowing that he had passed the boundaries of Pennsylvania and entered into the land of chivalry, he was suddenly arrested in his progress, and charged with being an incendiary Abolitionist. His vigilant captors were informed that though his closed wagon-box contained materials that would cx/nnid, if properly sowed in their gardens in the spring, they were not really of an ejrp/osirc nature. The Tirginia vigilants were incredulous, strongly sus- pected that he was a very dangerous character, and proceeded, with due care and caution, (probably fearing that some 'infernal machines' were mixed up with the small boxes containing seeds,) to overhaul and examine the contents of the wagon. Though finding neither powder, nor Sliarp's riHes, nor warlike pikes, they were far from being satisfied that all was ri^lit — i)ronounced him to be a very suspicious and dangerous character, and lodged him in jail, or some other safe 'lock-up,' for the night. On the f(dlowing morning a company of brave and chivalrous militia was assembled, with muskets and bayonets in hand, and, with the soul-ins])ir- ing music of hfe and drum, he was safely escorted and guarded back from ' Old Virginia's shore ' into the State of Pennsylvania, and the agitation arid alarm caused by his presence in that part of the 'Old Dominion' (l from one end of the town to the other, and caused very great panic among women and children, and some men, whose nervous systems have become much disordered by late events. Shutters were closed and lights extinguished in quick time. The excitement continued until ten o'clock, when it was ascertained that the sentinel had mistaken a cow for a man ; that he challenged her ; that she wouldn't halt, and he fired. Telegraphic Despatch from Charlestown, Va., in the New York Herald, November 24.* PROTECTION OF THE DOWN-TRODDEN. THE enslavement of the free negroes of the Common- wealth is a measure which seems to be very popular in this region. The policy in this connection, which is not favored here, is the immediate enslavement of that class, so as to avoid a diminution of the representative basis, which would result from the exodus of the free negro population under a measure granting the alternative of exemption or en- slavement within a specific time. Slaves constitute a basis of representation in the ratio of three fifths, while free negroes rank with the Whites in this connection, so that the loss of a free negro would be equivalent to the loss of a white man as a representative basis. Their enslavement, however, would involve but a comparatively small diminution in this respect, for in this condition they would occupy the three fifths stan- dard, and probably save to the Commonwealth the loss of one Member of Congress, wiiich would be inevitable under the policy of voluntary emancipation or enslavement after the lapse of a certain period. Immediate enslavement woidd, moreover, add to the coffers of the State Treasury ; but I hardly suppose that such a consideration as this would weigh * The Virginia cow that was shot for not answering tlie sentinel's challonge. was guilty of not nnderstamling the challengers language. Had an ass approached the sentinel, the one animal would have understood the other at once, and there would have been instant answer and immediate fraternization. — Boston Traveller. Decem- ber 3. '6 The Shi\cring Chivalry. materially in the determination of this policy. A regard for the safety of the InstUntioti of Slavery, with ichich the exist- ence of free negroes in this Conwionwealth is deemed incom- patible, is the overriding motive for this cojitemplated change. The question of the basis of representation can only affect the details of the measure as regards the limits within which the alternative of emigration or enslavement may be granted. But the question of gain is, I am sure, altogether excluded in the consideration of this policy. — "Woodstock (Va.) Cor- respondence N- Y. Times, dated November 9. — Judge Grain has ordered the free colored people of Prince George's county, Maryland, to be disarmed. — Bos- ton Traveller, December 27. — The Council of Hunts ville, Alabama, have passed an ordinance expelling all free colored persons from the town, who may have come there since the year 1832. — Boston Traveller, December 27. — The N. Y. Tribune, Nov. 16, says: A bill has been introduced in the Tennessee Legislature to prevent free negroes travelling on the railroads in that State, which passed at the first reading. It provides that the President who shall permit a free negro to travel on any road within the jurisdic- tion of the State under his supervision, shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars ; any conductor permitting a violation of the act shall pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars ; pro- vided such free negro is not under the control and care of a free white citizen of Tennessee, who vouches for the charac- ter of said free negro in a penal bond of one thousand dollars. In this connection it is timely to notice the rising signs of a public fear and hate of free colored persons in Alabama. The Montgomery Mail says : "AVe are daily reccivins encouragement, personally and by letter, in our attempts to direct public attention, and especially tbat of our liCt^isla- ture, to tbc necessity of removing the free negro population of Alabama from its borders, and of reviewing and revising the laws as to oflences by slaves and their masters, as such. The sentiniait is universal, that the \st of January, 18()2, ynitsi ^find no single free negro within the limits of Ala- tama ; their anomalous condition is an eyesore to the slaves and an The Shiverine: Chiva to 77 annoyance to the white population. Freedom is not the normal condition of the negro, and that blessing to the wliito race degrades, deinoralizfs, and renders worthless nine negroes out of every ten." It xoill soon he a question of politics concerning the St(Ues severally, and affecting the credit and the obligation of the General Government, if that entire class of Anglo-African men and women can he driven from their homes and properly in the South, and forced to become residents luithin other juris- dictions, under the penalty of being sold into eternal Slavery. — The N. Y. Tribune, November 22, says : How Missis- sippi proposes to force out of her jurisdiction all free negroes, and to rob them besides, as some compensation to herself for the terror they have made her suffer, the following act, now on its passage througli her Legislature, will too well show : A Bill to Exclude Free Negroes from the State : Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That from and after the 1st day of July, 1860, it shall be unlawful for any free negro, or mulatto, to be found in this State, tmder any pretence what- soever ;"and every free negro, or mulatto, so found, may be indicted in any county where found, or in any adjoining county, and, on conviction, shall be sold into Absolute Slavery. The Sheriff of the proper county shall sell such negro, or mulatto, at the door of the Court House of his county, for cash, after giving such notice as the Court shall direct, and shall pay the net proceeds of sale into the Treasury of the county where the indict- ment was found. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall, by pretending to be owner, or by any other means, endeavor to shield or protect any free negro or mulatto against the provisions of this act, such person so offend- ing shall be fined in any sura not exceeding one thousand dollars, or im- prisoned not exceeding six months. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That in an indictment under this act, proof that the negro or mulatto acted as if free, shall be sufficient prima facia evidence of the fact. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That if the ow^ner of any slave shall per- mit such slave to hire his or her time, or otherwise act as free, such owner shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. And such slave may be indicted and sold as a free negro unlawfully in the State. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That free negroes or mulattoesare hereby declared incapable of inheriting, acquiring, or holding any property in this State ; nor shall any property be removed from the State for the benefit of any such person. — The N. Y. Independent, December 29, states : " A bill for excluding free negroes from the State of Mississippi passed the House on the Tth'^December, by a vote of 75 to o. It provides that they shall leave the State on or before the 1st of July, 18G0 ; or, if they prefer to remain, that they shall be sold into slavery, with a right of choice of masters, at a price assessed by three disinterested^ Slaveholders, (!) the proceeds to go into the Treasury of the county in Avhich the provisions of the bill may require to be executed." 7* 78 The Shivering Chivalry. — The Tribune, of December 30, records this fiict of *' Slavery as it is " : «' At the April term, 18.30, of the Circuit Court for Cecil. county, Md., a free colored uian, about twenty veurs of a^e. named John Scott, was tried for K">i>^' "lit of the State and "returning thereto contrary to law, and con- victed of the olfence. He was sentenced to pay a tine of twenty dollars and costs of suit, and in default thereof to he sold as a slave. The tine was not paid, and on Monday last John Scott was sold at Elkton, at public Bale, to the highest bidder, for nine hundred and seventy-hve dollars. He was sold as a slave for life, and is no doubt ere this on his way to a South- ern market. The purchaser was a man named Fairbank, from Baltimore." — The same able and patriotic journal of a more recent date has these judicious comments on a decision of the Vir- ginia Courts : We have already called attention to a recent decision of the highest Court in Virginia, to be found in the XlVth volume of Grattan's Reports, p. V.yi, just is^sued, in the case of Baily et al. agt. Poindcxter et al. It is of sutiicient consequence to merit a few further observations, and is stated as follows in a journal of that State : " Mr. Poindcxter, being the owner of a number of slaves, by his will gave the use of them to'his widow during her life, and after her death they were to be free, at their eh-ction, if they preferred freedom to a public snle at auction. The Court, upcm full argument, extending over some eighty pages, decided that the clause of emancipation, at the election of the siaves", was an utter nullity and void, and that the heirs might still hold them in bondage, assigning as a reason for this, that a slave has not, in the eve of the law, any legal situs or power of choice whatever, and therefore that these slaves cannot perform the condition specified in Mr. Poindexter's will, that is, elect to be free. "The learned Court say that this total incapacity of the slave is the necessary consequence of the system of Slavery, as understood and prac- tised in "the Slave States ; and further, that this feature of the law cannot be abandoned or relaxed without endangering the entire institution itself. They insist ' the slave has no civil or social rights ; ' that he can enter into no form of agreement f r his emancipation, and is without remedy for the breach of any such agreement, if any be made and brokeji ; and hence he can exercise no election for maniunission ; and further, that his master cannot, by anv possibility, clothe him with such a power, for the slave has no leqal 'sitm, no attribute of a man under law, no power, no choice or right"; that though ' he may elect to go into Slavery, he cannot elect to go out of it ;' and that ' all the powers and faculties of the slave are abso- lutelv UTider the control of the master.' "The Judges who made the decision say the doctrine is upheld and fully sustained by the principles laid down by Chief Justice Taney in the case of Dred Scott agt. Sanford, 19 Howard." It is such extraordinary injustice as this, perpetrated under the forms of law, bv grave judicial authorities, that produces the profoundest im- pression "wherever a sei\timent of right pervades the i)u])lic mind. It is the conduct of conservative Southern men — for we sui)p(>se Judges up(m the Bench must be so esteemed — in thus aggravating the featiues of Slavery, bv denving to philanthropy the exercise of its ben(>ficent impul- ses, and, little bv little, shutting out all hope for the slave through peace- able methods, t"hat gradually leads the public conscience to justify even violent and unlawful acts looking to the extinction of the Institution. How can the South expect the sympathy of the world for acts of injustice The Shivering Chivalry. 79 at whicli the. dullest sense revolts? The South, in its replica to allcRa- tions of individual wrong and outrage on the part of SlaveJioldcrs, always asserts that such are the exceptional features of the Institution. Jiut'it can make no such defence against tlic uncjuestioned decisions of its highest Legal Tribunals, such as tliat we are now eoininnnting on. Here is cruelty in the concrete. Here are wrong and outrage pi-rjielrated by the civil authority, acting under all the restraints and soieniiiilies of a tribunal from which there is no appeal, and whose acts stand as tlie well- considered and deliberate utterance of tlie vState. Tliis is no exception- able injustice. It is the injustice of consolidated power — the injustice of a whole eomtnunity. And it is voluntary, gratuitous injustice. There is no defence for it^ such as there is, or at least as it is pretcTided there is, in maintaining the Slave System, from the necessity of upholding the rights of. property" intact. For what is here prevented is the attempt of property to relinquish its hold upon its possessions ; the attempt ()f Humanity to discharge a duty imposed by a sense of Justice. For this act of injustice on the part o " the State there is no defence, no reason in etpiity, or in policy even. It is sheer, undisguised, indefensible tyranny over a subject race. It is the common habit of all tyrannies to seek to strengthen them- selves by an iron harshness. But the method has never met with more than temporary success. The supporters of Slavery in the South, in fol- lowing the old example, cannot fairly anticipate any thing diiierent from the old experience. In proportion to the violence of wrong, comes the force of its retributions. In aggravating the condition of the slave by fierce enactments, and by cruel legal decisions, the South is gradually forfeiting all claim upon the sympathies of mankind, and destroying the feeling of commiseration which would otherwise be its stay in the fearful perils'the future has in store. Let it be persuaded to moderation in its course, both in respect to its treatment of slaves by the civil authority, and in the spread of Slavery, and it may at least measurably restore the harmony of feeling between the two sections of the country that its out- rageous conduct has of late years done so much to interrupt. — The Cincinnatti Gazette, of January 4, says : " At the late session of the Arkansas Legislature, an act was passed giving the free negroes of that State the alternative of migrating before January 1, 1869, or of becoming slaves. As the time of probation has now expired, while some few individuals have preferred servitude, the great body of the free colored people of Arkansas are on their way north- ward. We learn that the upward-bound boats are crowded with them, and that Seymour, Ind., on the line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, affords a temporary home for others. A party of forty, mostly ^yomen and children, arrived in this ci^y last evening by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. They were welcomed by a committee of ten, appointed from the colored people of the city, by whom the refugees were escorted to the Dumas House, on McAllister Street, at which place a formal reception •was held. They were assured by the Chairman of the Reception Com- mittee, Peter H. Clark, that if they were industrious and exemplary in their conduct, they would be sure to gain a good livelihood and many friends. The exiles, as before stated, are mostly women and children, the husbands and fathers being held in servitude. They re])ort, concerning the emigration, that hundreds of the free colored men of Arkansas have left for KansaSj and hundreds more are about to follow." VI. Soutljcrn Qospitalittj. « T)E hospitable to strangers " is a Bil)lioal injunction, with XJ a motive annexed to it ; for, says the Sacred Book, " some have entertained angels unawares." Down South, where the Slave-masters so loudly boast of their hospitality, they nevertheless have changed all that ; and '' Be //diospitable to strangers, for some have entertained Abolitionists witliout knowing it," seems now to be the rule that governs them. Not any of the Christian Ai)Ostolic Epistles, but a Virginia Gubernatorial Letter, appears to be the guide of their actions in reference to visitors of Northern birth. These are charges, we are aware, not to be lightly made ; but accusations, albeit, which we undertake to prove — " out of their own mouths." The preceding chapters have recorded several instances of the most inhospitable treatment of strangers, who have been " suspected " of preferring God and His freedom to the Devil and his Slavery ; while in this one we propose to record such well-attested incidents only as show that without either statute or moral crime alleged, and without provocation given, North(!rn men have recently been banished ignominiously at th(,' bidding of the caprice and the sectional hatred of tiie in- solent Shive Oligarchy : GOV. w'ise's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 ST lkttkk. riMTE following brief letter from Gov. Wise, (says tlie At- A lanta, Georgia, News,) shows what he considers the neces (80) Southern Hospitality. gj sity of the times. We learn that very stringent measures have been adopted in Soutli Carolina, Alabama, and in some i)or- tions of our State against pedlers, showmen, and others wlio are reasonably suspected of hostility to our Institutions. Scarcely a day passes, that ive do not hear of some itinerant, unable to prove himself to be of reliable character, having been, expelled from Southern communities. Here is the letter of the Virginia Governor : Richmond, Va., Nov. 2o, 1859. "My Dear Sir: I have time only to acknowledge yours. Say to your father, and all others, that there are serious times here. We are" arniint?, and have need to do so ; and the Southern States all had better be rous- ing. Drive out pedlers and schoolmasters {not well known) from I'ankec- dom. Yours, &c., Henry A. Wise. William Scott, Esq." T NORTHERNERS DRIVEN FROM FLORIDA. HE N. Y. Tribune, of January 24, says: " The Eastern Herald, of Lake City, Florida, advocates, with con- siderable vigor, the expulsion of Northerners from that State. It says, * Let us but act prudent, but at the same time promptly, and every rotten- hearted, God-forsaken, mean Abolitionist, who sets his foot on Southern soil to inculcate the principles of insurrection — let us teach him a series of lessons that will not be easily forgotten.' " PENNSYLVANIANS DRIVEN OUT OF MARYLAND. THE Norristown (Pa.) Republican, a trustworthy paper, furnishes us with the following incidents : " Mr._ David Fuld, clothing dealer, of West Chester, having a claim to collect in Warwick, Cecil county, Md., went down, taking a free colored man, David, along as a carriage driver, when an excited crowd gathered about the house, exclaiming, 'Hang the d — d Northern nigger!' 'Shoot him ! ' ' Fine him one hundred and fifty dollars,' * Fine him five hundred dollars,' and other expressions peculiar to that latitude. A ' squire ' was in the crowd, and informed Mr. Fuld that the legal fine was twenty dollars, and the costs twenty-five cents. (As no warrant was issued, we suppose this was for the use of the mob.) Mr. Fuld paid the fine, and took a receipt, which the constable indorsed good for five days for the ' negro.' But his prompt payment seemed to annoy them. They used abusive and insulting language, and swore he should not take the 'nigger * back to Pennsylvania. One man oifered him eight hundred dollars for the negro, and he was told that he had better take that than nothing, for he would have to go home without him. Some one suggested that it would be safest to leave, when Mr. F. and his man left, Avithout finishing his business, and returned to Pennsylvania with exalted notions of our * ga- lo-rious ' Union ! " — " Christian Stout, a good Democrat, long a resident of Upper Dublin, and for a year or two of Plymouth township, removed to Maryland a few years ago, to work a farm for William Earnest, Hon. John McNair, and others, and has resided there ever since. About two weeks ago he ap- peared amongst us again, and informed us that he was a fugitive from his 82 Southern Hospitality. home. He says that a short time after the opening of Congress, and the intrnduttion of Clark's resolution, a wealthy Englishman, his neighbor, hancU-d him Helper's book to read. He read it, and then seeing his neigh- bor, he told hifii that he was d?» the part of tlie citizens to tar and feather them was manifested, and, as for our part, we think that the proper way to deal witli such men. The books were burned in the street." — Said book, instead of being an Anti-Slavery voltnnc, is an argument in favor of the accursed Institution, and there- fore, even by the Southern code, these men had commit- ted no offence whatever ! AN EXTRAORDINARY CRIME. THE New York News, Nov. 30, publishes an account of a meeting in Cook County, Texas, which decreed the perpetual banishment of a Northern man, then absent — ^'for having written a letter J^ TEACHERS DRIVEN OUT OF ALABAMA. THE New York Independent mentions the case of Dr. Meigs Case, who was recently driven from Salem, Ala- bama. He was asked to take charge of an Academy at that town, — which had run down for want of teachers, — and, in order to put it on a solid basis, had engaged preceptors from the North. ''But while the teachers, the books, and the family Avere just on the point of starting for the South, he was waited on by a ' Committee on the Safety of the Union,' who politely informed him that public opinion, dur- ing the last few months, had undergone such remarkable changes, that it was no longer expedient to permit the residence of a Xorthern man in a Southern community. The time had come, they said, when Southern men must be watchful of their Institutions, and must rid themselves promptly of all persons whose influence was likely to be cast, in however faint a degree, against the System of Slavery. Dr. C. had never made any ex- pression of views on either side of the question; but the fact that he was a Northern man was a sufficient pretext for his banishment. The gentle- men who had given him the most cordial welcome to the place were now the most active in procuring his summary dismissal. They stated, with true chivalric politeness, th it they regretted to compel him to leave, but apologized by adding that the state of the times demanded prompt expul- sion. They concluded their interview by urging him to quit the place at once, intimating that they could not be responsible for his safety if he remained longer than twenty-four hours. A leading physician in the town, who had professed great friendship for Dr. Case, said to him, in parting, ' If you had been introduced to our citizens by the Governor of the State, and were as stanch a Democrat as any in Alabama, you still could not be sustained amid the excitenumt that now pervades all classes of the community.' At this time, a bill was before the lower house of the Legislature, entailing a fine of $i'oOO on any school commissioner who should give a certificate of qualification to any Northern man who had not let all Abolitionists be hung, because if it were not for them the master would not be half as strict with the Slave ; and that he loved the Lord the best and his master next, and hated an Abolitionist worst and the devil next. — New York Herald, January 14. As an appropriate commentary on this incident, see the Letters of Theodore Parker on John Brown's Invasion of Virginia, in " The Echoes of Harper's Ferry." NEW YORKERS BANISHED FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. rrilK New York Times, of Nov. 28, says: The Orange- Ji burg (S. C.) Southron gives the following account of a warning conveyed to a preacher and two young house paint- ers, who were suspected of entertaining Abolition sentiments : Since Friday last no less than four individuals, regarded as rather ob- noxious to the community, have been ordered to leave the village of Orangeburg, and told that they would have to abide the consequences of remaining after the expiration of a time specified. The first, a young man, a school teacher, and, we believe, a sort of preacher, who gave his Southern Hospitality. 89 name as a committee D. Heagle, from the State of New York, was waited upon by ;tee of citizens :ipi)()iiitccl for the purpose, at three o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday last, and ordered to leave on tlie five o'clock train, which he accordingly did. The next two were young men, house painters, one by the name of Mahon, who also hailed from the State of New York, and the other signed his name as Clarkson, from North Carolina, were Avaited upon on Monday, in the early part of the after- noon, and in like manner ordered to leave on the" five o'clock train. Clarkson was sent oft" principally on account of his having l)een engaged the night previous in the disturbance of a religious ceremony. The foiirth was a book agent, named Day. — We give the following letter in full, as it is well worth studying : To the Editor of the New York Times. Sir : I see in your Times of Monday last I am put down as one of the unfortunate individuals lately sent away from South Carolina with a " new coat of tar and feathers." Not quite so bad as that, but, never- theless, I was sent away, and Avithout the least shadow of a reason. I had gone dowoi there, like any other honest Northerner, with trunk and books, and recommendations, and, having got a place in a little village by the name of Orangeburg, went to teaching. Thinking myself ])er- fectly secure, and having got a very good place, I began to be considerably satisfied, when suddenly my quiet Avas broken up, and I was ordered to take my books, and recommendations, and trunk, and start for the North. It Avas a Aveek ago on Saturday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon. I thought it best not to confine myself too much to my room, but take a Avalk. Accordingly, I took a short tour of the village, stopped at the post office, and then called on one of my friends. To avoid suspicion of being thought an Insurrectionist, or an emissary of John BroAA-n, as the Southerners think all the Northerners among them are, I had been especially careful not to say or do any thing that Avould at all alarm, not even Avhispering that Slavery Avas an abominable thing, nor attending any of their "nigger meetings," except once or twice by special request, and in company Avith some of my friends. Such being the case, one would naturally think himself safe enough in any place, especially in one that professes to have reasonable men. So I thought, but, having staid a Avhile at my friend's, and read his papers, I Avas on my Avay back to mv boarding house, thinking, I believe, about Coleridge — something or other of his speculations — " Stop a minute, if you please ; going uj) to your room ? " and before me Avere standing Captain Salley, Major Glover, and one or tAvo others I did not knoAA'. Meaning to pass the time of day, and not expecting any such visitors, I Avas unprepared for receiving com- pany ; nevertheless, I gladly accompanied them to my room, and, as po- litely as I could, gave them seats. " Hem ! We might as Avell commence business," said Captain Salley. The rest assented ; and then he Avent on to say that they had been appointed a committee, by the citizens of Orange- burg, to inform me that I must leave the place in the next train. If he had said. Take a trip in the Ncav York City across the Atlantic, I could not have been more astonished. " You surprise me," I said ; and Avantcd to knoAv the reason of such a course. This AA'as the contemptible thing offered as such : " They had come to the conclusion I Avas not exactly a proper person to be alloAved among them, on account of my political sen- timents." HoAv they kncAv my political sentiments, Avas, of course, a mys- tery ; for no one there kncAv them. But they chose not to reason further; "the exigencies of the times demanded it." I "might be innocent, for aught they kncAv; but the case was such, the innocent had to suffer Avith the guilty." I asked them for a chance to vindicate myself; I asked them for time to collect my bills ; I asked them to lend me money to get aAvay 8* cjo Southern Hospitality. vrith. They granted neither. I then appealed to them as men endowed with reason ; showed the cruelty and foolishness of what they were doing; but tlie only answer to every thiuf^ was : "You must exi)ect t/te conse- ftuenct'S, or leave town by the next train," whicli would be in about two lours. They did, however, at last agree to collect my bills, and give Tue money enough to get to Charleston ; and having assured me I should not be troubled by a mob, left the room. I left it, too, a short time afterwards, considering it best to go where my own will might control the ways and means of my own body — this flesh and bones that troubled theui'so, because it came from the far North. I thought it best to take care of it, and not let it get broken, or bruised, or covered over with Southern slime, mixed uj) with prickly quills. This is the sum and substance of the affair, though I might say a good deal more of other men who were sent out in the same way, and some, alas ! who got the " tar and feathers." T do not blame all the Southerners. A good many I found whole-hearted, noble souls, whose memory I shall always cherish; but those luen who sent mc away, and the brainless hot-heads, generally, there, I hardly know what to think of. I would have said noth- iiTg abov'it them — not wisliing myself to be connected with their little, sillv, villanous atlair — but they have already put it in the papers; and it is only justice to myself and friends prompts me to give as much as I have, mereli/ a plain statement of facts.— 'Sew York Times, December 5. A DEMOCRAT BANISHED. IVyORRIS F. STEARNS, of Greenfield, Mass., a straiglit- J.^ out Democrat, was recently driven from Georgetown, S. C, where he went to sell maps, because he was from the North ; and a subscriber to the Greenfield Gazette, in Geor- gia, has been obliged to discontinue his subscription on account of the Anti-Northern feeling there. Nothing sectional in these and similar incidents, of course ! The South is composed of National men ! — Liberator, December 30. A YANKEE AND HIS WIFE BANISHED. A CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston Mercury, writ- ing from Blackville, in that State, after narrating the circumstance connected with the tarring of Salvo, says : " On the Uth of December we sent off a foot traveller, who was pass- ing through the country with an air gun, a dice box, and some stereo- scopic views; and last night we started back to Charleston a man named Jones, who came hero with his wife direct from Vermont, for the professed purpose of taking ambrotypes. Having no use for such vagabond charac- ters, when they hail from Abrdition Territory, we advise them to keep away." A DAY BREAK. A BOOK agent, named Day, who made his a])pearance in the village yesterday afternoon, was ordered to leave on the one o'clock train for Columbia. Before the arrival of the cars, huwever, he was seen giving leg bail along the rail- Southern Hospitality. 91 road, in the direction of Charleston. — Orangeburg (S. C.) Southern. TWO MECHANICS BANISHED FROM VIRGINIA. TWO tinsmiths of Trenton, who had been hired to go to the vicinity of Charlestown, Va., to do some roofing, re- turned a few days ago, having been prevented from doing their work, and driven by threats of arrest to leave the place. — New York Tribune, November 24. DOWN ON NORTHERNERS. mHROUGHOUT the State the people are on the alert for X ^Northern stragglers, and not a few of them are receiving orders to march beyond its borders. A suspicious character was harnessed on Church Hill, last Sunday night, by a party of gentlemen, and made to pull up stakes and travel. Keep them moving while your hands are in, if you regard your own peace and quiet. — Richmond Despatch, November 26-30. AN INNOCENT PEDLER IN PRISON. ri^HE New York Times, of Nov. 28, says : According to the _L following letter, which appears in Friday's Richmond Enquirer, the Virginians have caught another of those pesti- lent pedlers, who fret the lives out of the chivalry. The En- quirer's correspondent writes with vigor : Union, Monroe County, Va,, Nov. 19, lSo9. To the Editors of the Enquirer : There was arrested in this village, this afternoon, a very suspicious-looking fellow. When first interrogated he gave as his name " Geo. W. Smith," and said that he was a pedler, although he had no goods in his possession. After his arrest he said that his name was " Nicholas Mitchell," and that he was from Baltimore, and on his way to Wheeling. He said that he was at Harper's Ferry two or three weeks ago, and came from that point directly up the Valley pf Virginia to Botetourt county. It was thought proper here to lodge him in iail until it could be ascertained who he is, and what he has been about, and is now after. This point is certainly not on any known route between Baltimore and Wheeling. The fellow "has but one arm, his right arm having been taken off near the shoulder ; he says that he lost it m the Mexican war; that in that war he belonged to the Fifth Regiment of Indi- ana Volunteers. He is about five feet and ten inches in height, has dark hair and eyes. He is evidently a Yankee from his peculiar accent, and has the appearance of being ready for any thing desperate or (liareputabh^. He may have been engaged in the' amiable business of shooting quiet citizens at the polls in Baltimore at the late election, or in the equally exciting occupation of enticing negroes off upon the Underground Railroad. At any rate we shall be glad to have him passed round a little while by the Press, in order that we may find out whether he is a proper person to be at large. Be good enough, therefore, to publish this note. CJ2 Southern Hospitality. A FARMER DRIVEN OUT OF VIRGINIA. SOME years since, Mr. Reuben Salisbury, then of Sandy -^ Creek, in this county, disposed of his property, and, with liis family, removed to Virginia, where he engaged in the business of farming, and where he led a peaceable and peace- ful life, until the unfortunate occurrence at Harper's Ferry, lit' was a quiet man, a member of the Baptist church, and estimable in all the relations of life. Though not an advocate of, nor an apologist for, the institution of Slavery, he was a man wlio attended to his own business, meddling with no- body's slaves, juid questioning no man's privilege to* hold them, if he was satisfied that it was right to do so. He was a man of rare integrity and moral worth, charitable, tolerant — in short, a good man. "Well, a short time since, a com- ])laint was lodged against this gentleman, who is now about sixty years of age, some kind of a process obtained, and about twenty of Virginia's chivalric sons deputed to execute it. They were all armed, and, visiting the premises in a body, they had no serious difficulty in capturing Mr. Salisbury. A search was then instituted for evidence to sustain the charge that had been preferred against him. His house was ran- sacked from cellar to garret ; every nook and cranny was peered into, and his private papers fumbled over, and the hunt had well-nigh proved fruitless, when a few copies of the Albany P^vening Journal, which had been sent to him by his friends in Sandy Creek, were discovered, and the venerable old man was hurried off to jail. Here he remained several days, but was finally admitted to bail, and by the advice of friends, was induced to quit his home in the Old Dominion and the State of his adoption. He returned to Sandy Creek last week. His farm in Virginia he advertises for sale at auction, and expects it will go at a sacrifice of from two to three thousand dollars. So much for Virginia justice. We otight to aiew Tes- tament, they believe Scriptural truth the best refutation of its claims. On various occasions the people of Berea have been subjected to attacks. Mob law, vituperation, and legal processes have in turn been tried in vain. They have zealously maintained their right to attempt to modify the in- stitutions of their native State by peaceable means, and perse_cution seemed measurably to have subsided, Avhen the events of the 17th of October called into new life the suspicion with which they had been viewed. On the 10th of December, a meeting was held at Richmond, the capital of Madison county, at which it was resolved to hold another meeting on the 17th, to consider the propriety of removing Rev. Messrs. Fee and Rogers, and others associated with them— first, because their association was of an incendiary character ; second, because their principles were at war with the best interests of the community, and their positions destruc- tive to all organized societv. A Committee on resolutions was also ap- pointed. Pursuant to adjournment, the second meeting was held on the 17th, in the Court House at Richmond. The Committee appointed at the last meeting reported, through R. R. Stone, an address and resolutions, m which, after stating that every plan for emancipation that had as yet been suggested, involved insuperable objections, and that theBereans acted as Abolition emissaries, and beUeved in a higher law, and a baptism of tire and blood, it is asserted that one of their number (meaning Mr. tee) had lately proclaimed publiclv in New York his sympathy tor John Brown ; asserting that Browns' were needed in Kentucky. The address goes on to say that the obnoxious persons had estabhshed a school tree for all colors — a district school, drawing its regular quota from the pub- lic treasury, thus using the money of the public for the pubhc destruc- , and conduct calculated to inflame the jjublic mind, which imputations are utterly false and grovindless. These imputations we have publicly denied, and oilered every facility for the fullest investigation, which wc have earnestly but vainly sought. 4. On Friday, the 2;id inst., a company of sixty-two men, claiming to have been appointed by a meeting of the citizens of our coimty, without any shadow of legal authority, and in violation of the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States, called at our respective resi- dences and places of business, and notified us to leave this county and State, and be without this county and State within ten days, and handed us the accompiinying document, in which you will see that unless the said order be proinptly complied with, that there is expressed a fixed de- termination to remove us by force. In view of these facts, which we can substantiate by the fullest evi- dence, we respectfully pray that you, in the exercise of the power vested in you by the Constitution and made your duty to use, do protect us in our rights as loyal citizens of the Commonwealth of the State of Kentucky. ' (Signed by) J. A. 11. Rogkus, [and ten others.] Beuea, Madison County, Ky., December 21, 1839. The Commercial News thus states the result of the presen- tation of the petition : " Gov. Magoffin received the bearers of the petition (Reed and Hayes) courteously, and advised them, for the sake of preserving the peace of the State, to leave it. He said that the public mind was deeply nuned by the events in Virginia, and that until the excitement subsided their presence in the State would be dangerous, and he could not engage to protect them from their fellow-citizens who had resolved that they must go. He promised them security while taking their departure, and that their property should be protected. They say that for tlie most part they were treated politely by those who have driven them from their homes, and they have hopes that presently the people of Kentucky will take a sober thought, and allow them to return to their several places of abode and Persecutions of Southern Citizens. 99 accustomed avocations. We cannot say, that we consider the prospect for such a consummation, remarkably fiatterinfj. They believe that many of the non-Slaveholders are much incensed at the dcsijotic procecdinjrs of the master class, and they have many warm personal friends. They trust to these and to a reaction. There are those among the people of Madison county who recognize the fact that the expulsion of such men as Fee and Rogers is the very way to make Abolitionists, and that the action taken has been not only uncalled for but imprudent. It is certainly not a light matter to drive out of a State men who build steam saw-mills, improve farms, keep schools, and labor faithfully as ministers of the Gospel, and who give no provocation to any in anyway — who otiend against no law — who make no war upon society — and who merely hold that Slavery is a sin, and teach that it should come to an end in God's own good time. The steam mill of Mr. Hanson was doing well until he was constrained to abandon it. The school of Mr. Rogers was in a flourishing condition, having nearly a hundred pupils during the last term, a great portion of them the children of Slaveholders. Kentucky cannot aftbrd to drive be- yond her borders the men who build mills and academies. The exiles seem in good spirits. They do not indulge even in unkind words about those who have made them homeless. They seem to be divided in opinion as to their course in the future. They all hope to go back to Old Ken- tucky, and live, labor, and die on her soil. Some fear they cannot go back, and think of looking out for employment in the Free States; and they have vague ideas of appealing for protection in their rights and immunities as citizens to the Federal Government." The Gazette adds : Most of the number are natives of the State, and several were horn and reared in the Counts/ from whirh they were required by the authorities to leave. The greater part are young men, but there are others far past three score years and ten ; these, added to children in arrns and defenceless icomen, comprise the list that have for the past two weeks created such dread to that part of Kentucky, geographically described as Madison county. The party, with whom our reporter had a lengthy conversation, have no definite object in view. Bereft of their homes and firesides, they are driven ruthlessly into a strange State, among strange people, to seek new homes and new firesides, and all for the reason of a difference of opinion and its honest expression. Calling on the party at their rooms at the Dennison House, we found them quietly seated together. Among their number were seven or eight young men, from eighteen to thirty years of age, about an equal number of ladies, several children, two or three of whom were babes in arms, and Mr. John Smith, a native of Kentucky, a patriarch of nearly fourscore, and his equally aged wife. They seemed neither joyous nor disconsolate. Believing they had acted in accordance with the laws of religion and humanity, they were ready to suffer all things, and aAvaited the future without fear, though ignorant of what it might bring forth. They are from the humble walks of liife, and the most of their property has been left behind them, as, in their hurried departure they had hardly opportunity to collect their wearing apparel." A SECOND BANISHMENT. Some of the persons banished from Berea, having mani- fested an intention of taking up their abode in Bracken and Jervis counties, Kentucky, strong manifestations of displeas- ure were exhibited by a portion of tlie inhabitants of those 100 Persecutions of Southern Citizens. localities. It found vent at last, in two public meetings. The first was lield January 21, at Orangeburg, Madison county, where it was '' resolved " that the expulsion of the Bereans was " necessary and justifiable ; " that '' no Abolitionist has a right to establish himself in a Slaveholding community ; " that their own peace " and the good of the Slave " demanded the expulsion of Rev. James S. Davis, (a co-worker with Rev. John G. Fee.) because " he has, as we are informed, recently received for circulation a large number of Helper's Compen- dium of the Impending Crisis of the South — a book, in the estimation of this meeting, dangerous in its spirit and tenden- cies ; " and therefore " that his presence and residence among us are highly objectionable." A Committee of seven was appointed to notify Mr. Davis to leave within seven days, or " suffer the consequences of non-compliance therewith. Duty," they add, " safety, and the interest of the community com- pel us to resort to means alike painful to us, and hazard- ous to him." On January 23, a meeting was held at Brooksville, of the citizens of Bracken and Mercer counties, "for the purpose of considering the propriety of allowing John G. Fee & Co., and others of like character, to settle among us." Resolutions were adopted, declaring John G. Fee and John G. Hanson, who had been expelled from Berea, " enemies of the State — dangerous to the security of our lives and property ; " " earnestly entreating" them to leave, but threatening physi- cal force if they refused to obey ; and ordering, without entreaty or otherwise, " J. B. Mallett, a school teacher in District No. 27, and Wyatt Robinson and G. R. Iloleman," to move at the same time. A Committee of Fifty were appointed to notify the Five Enemies of the State to leave it. The fourth Resolution indicates the opinion of this mob of gentlemen respecting freedom to worship God in one's own fashion : "Thiit wc deprecate the use of a church, known as the Free Church, by Persecutions of Southern Citizens. loi Abolition preachers ; and we now solemnly declare that we will resist, by all possible means, the occupying said church, by such inconl at hiu olfico in the mail, he shall give notice thereof to some Juslice, who rihall imiuiro into the circumstances, and have such book or writing burned iu bis j)resence. And if it appear to him that the person to whom it was directed or subscribed therelor, knowing its chiiracter. or agreed to receive it for cir- culation to aid the purposes of Abolitionibts, the Justice shall commit such person to Jail. If any Postmaster or Deputy Postmaster violate this section, he sliall be fined not cxcft'ding ^JOO. The point raised by your inquiry is, whether this statute is in conflict with the act of Congress regulating the administration of this Depart- ment, which declares that " if any Postmaster shall unlawfully detain in his ortice any letter, package, pamphlet, or newspaper, with the intent to prevent the arrival and delivery of the same to the person or persons to whom sucli letter, package, pamphlet, or newspaper may be addressed or directed, in tlie usual course of the transportation of the mail along the route, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, and shall moreover be forever thereafter incapable of holding the otfice of Postmaster in the United States." The question thus presented was fully decided by Attorney-General Gushing in the case of the Yazoo City Post Office. (Opinions of Attor- ney-Generals, vol. 8, 489.) He there held that a statute of Mississippi, in all respects analogous to tliat of Virginia as cited, was not inconsistent Avith the act of Congress quoted, prescribing the duties of Postmasters in regard to tlie delivery of mail matter, and that the latter, as good citizens, were bound to yield obedience to such State laws. You are referred to the luminous discussion of the case for the arguments urged by that dis- tinguished civilian in support of the conclusion at which he arrived. The jiidgment thus pronounced has been cheerfully acquiesced iu by this ^Department, and is now recognized as one of tlie guides of its adminis- tration. The authority of Virginia to enact such a law rests upon that right of self-preservation which belongs to every government and peo- ple, and which has never been surrendered, nor indeed can it be. One of the most solemn constitutional obligations imposed on the Federal Government is that of protecting tlie States against "insurrec- tion " and " domestic violence" — of course, none of its instrumentalities can be lawfully employed in inciting, even in the remotest degree, to this very crime, which involves in its train all others, and with tlie suppression of which it is specially charged. You iTiust, under the responsibilities resting upon you as an officer and as a citizen, determine whether the books, pamphlets, newspapers, &c., received by you for distribution, are of the incendiary character described in the statute ; and if you believp they are, then you are not only not obliged to deliver them to those to whom they are addressed, but you are empowered and required, by your duty to the State of which you are a citizen, to dispose of them in strict conformity to the provisions of the law referred to. The people of Vir- ginia may not only forbid the introduction and dissemination of such doc- uments within their borders, but, if brouyht there in the mail's, they may, ^y fippropriate Uyal proceidinys, hare' them destroyed. They have the same right to extinguish firebrands thus impiously hurled into the midst of their homes and altars that a man has to i)liick the burning fuse from a bombshi'll which is about to explode at his feet. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. HoLT. Mu. Cn.\HLEs A. Orton, Postmaster at Palls Church, Va. CO.MMENTS ON THIS COKHHSl'ONDENOP:. rj'MlE utter incompatibility of the enslavement nf a part with the lib- erty of any was never more strikingly evinced than during the last mluvery. Thtsy will hereafter bo couiinitted to the llaiues." The Post Office South. 121 The Postmaster General directs me to inform you that this is not a cor- rect constiuction of the law of your State on this subject. Hccausc a single copy of any particular newspaper contains matter decided by the State authorities to be incendiary in its character, it does not therefore follow that any subsequent numbers of the sauie paper are to be con- demned for that cause. Each and every number of the i)ublication must be acted upon and disposed of separately, as provided by the statute of Virginia, which is in the following words, viz. : " If a postmaster or deputy po-stinastcr know that any bucIi book or otbor writing [of an incendiary character] has been received at his office in tlie mail, he shall ;;ivo notice thereof to some justice, who shall inquire into the circumstancea, and have Buch book or writing burned in his presence." Respectfully your obedient servant, Houatio Kino, First Assistant Postmaster General. Postmaster, Luney's Creek, Hardy county, Va. Practically, this authority is as arbitrary as the first was ; and both show how urgent the necessity is for a change of Administration. NORTH CAROLINA RESOLVES TO ROB. THE North Carolina correspondent of the New York Herald, December 19, publishes the following " Order in Council : " Resolved, by the Council of the State of North Carolina, . . . That inasmuch as certain papers and books of an incendiary character, cal- culated and having a tendency to excite slaves to acts of insubordination, are being circulated in this State through the Post Office of the Government by fanatical clubs and societies in the Northern States, we advise his Ex- cellency the Governor to take all needful action to prevent the same ; and that all postmasters in this State be forbidden under the penalty of the law to deliver any such newspaper, book, or other publication, whether veritten or printed, from his office to any person to whom it may be di- rected, as such conduct on their part will be regarded as a circulation of such paper or book. Adopted unanimously. FLORIDA FOLLOWS SUIT. THE Springfield Republican, December 30, says : The Governor of Florida has sent a special message to the legislature, giving information that Abolition and incendiary documents are circulating in the State, and that he had received a copy of Helper's Crisis. The legislature immediately prepared a bill prohibiting the delivery of such newspapers and documents from the Post Offices. MAIL ROBBERIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. — " Several attempts have been recently made to circulate the Helper Book in this State, but in nearly every case the effort was unsuccessful. The Republican Committee of New York are charged with getting up the enterprise. A number of the seditious volumes were seized at Adams's P^xpress Of- fice, in this city, a few days ago and burned. Many families 11 122 The Post Office South. receive the Compendium throiigli the Post OlFice, but it is no sooner received than destroyed." — Raleigh (North CaroHna) Correspondence of N. Y. Herald, dated January IG, published January 26. INCINDAKY .^1 VI 111: llAr^i i;l\ BURNT. ri'^IIK Western Christian Advocate publishes the following X from a Postmaster in Virginia : Wayne C. II., Va., Feb. 28, 1800. To the Editor of the Western Chrcston Advocate. Sir you will Please Discontinue sending your paper to this office as it has bin found to contain incindary matter, and burnt. Yours &c., J. M. Fekguson. REMARKS ON A BURNING GLASS. THE New York Tribune publishes the subjoined interest- ing, and slightly personal, correspondence between a supple office holder and a stiff-spined editor : Post Office, LYNX-HBruG, Va., Dec. 2, 1859. Mn. Horace Greeley. Sir : I herel)y inform you that I shall not, in future, deliver from this office the copies of The Tribune which come here, because I believe them to be of that incendiary character which are forbid- den circulation alike by the laws of the land, and a proper regard for the safety of society. You will, therefore, discontinue them. PiespcctfuUy, R. H. Glass, P. M. Mr. Postmaster of Lyxciirurg, Va. Sir: I take leave to assure you that I shall do nothing of the sort. The subscribers to The Tribune in Lynchburg have paid for their papers ; we have taken their money, and shall fairly and fully earn it, according to contract. If t/ic'i/ direct us to send their papers to some other Post Office, we shall obey their request ; otherwise, we shall send them as originally ordered. If you or your masters choose to steal and destroy them, that is your affair — at all events nut ours ; and if there is no law in Virginia to punish the larceny, so much the worse for her, and our plundered subscribers. If the Federal Administration, whereof you are the tool, after monopolizing the business of mail-carrying, sees fit to become the accomplice and patron of mail- robbery, I suppose the outrage must be borne until more honest and less servile rulers can be put into high places at Washington, or till the People can recover their natural right to carry each other's letters and printed matter, asking no odds of the Government. Go ahead in your oavu base ■way ; I shall stand steadfast for Human Liberty and the Protection of all natural rights. Yours, stiffly, Horace Greeley. New York, Dec. 9, 18;j9. MAIL ROBBERIES IN VIRGINIA. AT Charlestown, the military authorities not only held pos- session of the telegraph, but also interfered witli the mails. Letters directed to certain of the New York papers, were not forwarded ; and packages of news])apers from New York were suppressed. — Tribune, December 7. The Post Office South. 123 — John C. Underwood, Esq., writing to Horace Greeley, under date of " Occoquan, Prince William county, Va., De- cember 21, 1859," says: *' There are some ten or twelve copies of the Tribune taken at this ofiice, and the Postmaster refuses to deliver them to the subscri))ers ! The Attorney-General of this State has pronounced them incendiary ! " A PERPLEXED POSTMASTER. A PRIVATE letter from a Postmaster in Virginia, (says the New York Tribune, of December 29,) whose lo- cality w^e dare not indicate, for fear of exposing him to mob violence, says : "We are in the midst of a Reign of Terror here. There is no certainty that letters duly mailed will not be opened on their way. All men of Northern birth now here are under surveillance by the so-called Vigilance Committee ; and any one suspected of thinking Slavery less than divine is placed under care. Those who have been taking the New York Trib- une are objects of especial ban. A company of ten came into the office last Monday, and gave notice that I must not give out any more Tribunes to the subscribers here. The law of Virginia punishes, by fine and im- prisonment, a Postmaster who gives out what are denounced as incendiary iournals. The law of the United States punishes by fine and imprison- ment, and further incapacitates from ever holding the office agam, any Postmaster who shall withhold or refuse to deliver any paper sent to a regular subscriber at his office. So here I am in a pretty fix." LATEST FROM LEECHVILLE. FROM the editorial columns of the New York Tribune we transfer this article : " Somewhere down in the tar and rosin State is a shambling sort of a hamlet called Leechville. They have a post office in LeechviUe. The man who overhauls the mails at this out-of-the way spot is one Augustus Latham. From the Blue Book, it appears that the annual receipts of this post office are thirty-one dollars, whereof Latham pockets twenty-one for his salary, leaving ten to replenish the Federal Treasury, which probably pays some Democratic contractor a hundred dollars per annum for going off the main road in search of Leechville, and stopping long enough for the contractor's horse to catch breath and the contractor's driver to im- bibe a draught of whiskey, while Latham peers into the half^ozen letters and newspapers, more or" less, in the mail bag. One would suppose that the arrival in this desolate locality of a half dozen speeches, bearing the frank of some United States Senator, would be hailed as a godsend, even if only for the novelty of the thing. It seems that there is a resident m Leechville, permanent or temporary, who is pursuing knowledge under difficulties — one Thomas Dunbar, the senior of that name. Heaving (we confess we are at a loss to cuess how) that Senator Wilson had delivered a speech exposing the disunion schemes of the Democracy, Mr. Dunbar wrote to that gentleman, requesting him to send him two or three copies of that speech, which, of course, Mr. Wilson did. The return mail brmgs to the Senator a missive from Mr. Holt's man Latham. A\ e print it as an average specimen of Southern respect for law, Southern manners, and Southern grammar: ^^ ^ Leechville Feb 16 1860. " ' Sir Your speeches and your Black Republican friends cannot circu- 124 The Post OfTice South. late your Abolition speeches through this Post office so you need not send any more to Thomas Dunbar senr. " ' Yours &c Arr.rsTt-8 Latham P M.' " Latham's orthography is inimitable ; so, in that particular, we fall back upon Webster. In all seriousness, there has been quite enough of this sort of mail robbery under the rule of Mr. Holt. If he doesn't stop it promptly and jiereniptorily, he should be impeached. Such creatures as this Latham sliould be dismissed iustanter. If Mr. llolt, on due notice, refuses to have this done, then the House of Keprcsentatives should im- mediately take the initial step towards degrading him from office. " MAIL ROBBERIES IN DELAWARE. rpiIE Lewis (Delaware) correspondent of the New York X Tribune, under date of A{)ril 21, says: "The Grand Jury of Kent Co., Md., have had the P. M.'s before them, made inquiries relative to newspapers taken at the diticrent offices, and directed the Postmasters to retain and not deliver the New York Trifmne and Delaware Republican. 'J'he P. M.'s are somewhat exercised upon the subject. They are generally storekeepers, and hence have nothing to gain by crossing those of their customers who arc so eccentric as to receive the obnoxious journals. There appears to be a goodly num- ber of these subscribers, and they are, without any exception that I know of, persons of respectability — some possessed of considerable property. The P. M.'s, as far as heard from, retain the papers." AN EAGLE BURNED. ^piIE Poughkeepsie Eagle publishes the following letter: -L t< OCCOQUIN, Va., December 96, 18.59. "Dear Sir: You will discontinue your paper directed to J. Yelverton ; the magistrates have burned it, and say they will continue to do the same if sent. Yours respectfully, L. A. Lynn, P. M. "Editors Poughkeepsie Eagle." — The Springfield Republican has received a similar token of Southern favor; and the Albany Evening Journal says that one of the most estimable farmers in Virginia has been driven from that State, because a copy of the Evening Journal was found in his possession. When the Virginians have got rid of all the newspapers and school teachers, they will doliglit the heart of Governor Wise, who once blessed his stars that there were no teachers in Accoraac. The ancient Englisli Governor Berkeley used to be of the same opinion when he managed the colony. Sports of l5<^^t^)^« ©nttUimn. WHENEVER a fallen woman denounces a pure matron, her first accusation invariably relates to a deficiency of virtue in her decent enemy. Thus, too, the South is often noisy with denunciations of the lawlessness of the North. One would think, to hear the Slavemasters talk, that they were patterns of loyalty to Law and the Constitution. The incidents narrated in the preceding chapter hardly sustain this pretension ; but they are the most favorable specimens that recent Southern newspaper literature furnishes us of the better spirit of the South. There are darker pictures — for exam- ple, these : GEORGIA BARBARISM. THE Belfast (Me.) Age publishes a letter from a corre- spondent in Georgia, giving the revolting particulars of a gross outrage committed upon a ship's crew, near Jeffer- sontown, in that State. The writer says : "The brig B. G. Chaloner, of East Machias, Me., was chartered in New York to come to Statilla Mills, on the Statilla River, to load lum1)er. Capt. A. V. Kinney was master, who had with him his wife, Mr. Patterson the mate, and a crew of four men. Mr. Patterson was well acquainted •with the river, having once been wrecked up White Oak Creek. At that time, while stripping the vessel, he lived with a Avealthy planter, who became much attached to him. No sooner had his planter friend — Mr, Morrissey — learned that he was again on the river, than he sent a negro to conduct him to the house. Mr. Morrissey, learning that the captain had his wife with him, sent a pressing invitation by Mr. Patterson for the captain to come, and bring his wife with him, to take a Christmas dinner with his family. On Sunday morning, Dec, 2oth, the caiHain, with his wife and mate, took the crew in the boat, and started for Mr. Morrissey's plantation, having to go about fifteen miles by water to his i)lace of land- 11* (12-3) 126 Sports of Heathen Gentlemen. ing, from which to the plantation was five miles. After landing, he sent his men to Mr. Pcters's nouse, (he being acquainted with Mr. P.,) to tarry until his return. The crew had been in the house but a short time when six armed men came there, by the names of David Brown, and his two sons, IJurrill Brou-n and Nathan Brown, with their brother-in-law, Thomas Harrison, and two otliers, whose names I don't recollect, and told tliem tliey must go to jail. The sailors, believing their innocence would appear the' more apparent if they yielded, concluded to obey their orders, sup- posing they were authoritative. They were then taken into the woods, tied to a tree, lind a negro made to give three of them fifty lashes apiece. The reserved one was a tall man, of the height of six f'cet three inches, whom they called the captain of the crowd ! Upon his back, they dealt one hundred lashes. After he was taken down, they asked him "if he would run as fast as the others had — they having been compelled to run as fast as released. As he did not at once start, one of the gang raised his gun, saving, ' you, you won't run, won't you?* and fired, the ball pass- ing near his head, and lodging in a tree. With what strength remained, the suffering man then started, hastened by the profane threats of his menacing tormentors. By the kindness of Burrill Brown's wife, the men were shown the way down, and a boat was provided to take them on board the vessel. On Monday morning, as Capt. Kinney, his wife, and Mr. Pat- terson were coming down towards the landing, they were met by the men who took the sailors aboard, and told what had happened, and advised to go back to Mr. Morrissey's and leave the woman, and then go round the other way and send a sheriff for the boat. This advice was acted upon. They had not gone more than half a mile before they were overtaken by a man on horseback, who pointed a double-barrelled gun at the captain's head, and told him to stop. Presently, old Brown and his gang came along, armed with pistols and guns, and ordered the captain and mate to take off their coats, which they refused to do. Guns were at once cocked and levelled at their heads, and compliance demanded by threatening to blow out their brains. After they had divested themselves of their outer garments, a negro was ordered to give them fifty lashes apiece. The captain's wife piteously interceded in behalf of her husband and compan- ion, but they coarsely told her to stop her d — d crying, or they would give her the same number of lashes they were now giving her husband. After the negro had completed his task, old Bro%\Ti, who was unable to walk without a cane, came hobbling along, and commanded the slave to give them four more for tally. The six inquisitors then marched the sufferers before their guns to the boat, and shoved it off, leaving them to row fifteen miles, against the tide, to their vessel. A few days after the transaction the mate showed me his back, which was bruised and cut from his neck to his knees, as was also the case with the others who were flogged. The only reason given for committing this outrage was, that the captain and his men were ' damned Northerners.' " — Tlie Savannah News, December 3, says : We learn that last night, about 12 o'clock, a party who had reason to doubt the orthodoxy, or who believed in the heterodoxy of Sewall II. Fisk, a dealer in shoes in this city, and a native of Massachusetts, waited upon hinj, and using some persuasives peculiar to themselves, induced him to exchange his usual habiliments, and don those that transmogrified him into a pretty fair representative of Plato's definiti(m of a man — a cock. He was not game, however, for he had no sinus; nor did he exhibit any inclination to make fight or crow, being, we suppose, olf from his OAvn dunghill. Tlie charges against him were, that he gcnorally expressed Abolition sentiments, and that on last Sabbath evening he read to negroes in his store. These charges Mr. Fisk denied. He was called out of his store at ni^^ht, and gagged before he could make either noise or resistance. He was then placed in a carriage and driven .a short distance from the Sports of Heathen Gentlemen. 127 city, and the application, as above, made to his nude person ; he was thou left to find his way back, as best he could. His first appearance in tli.- limits was near the hospital, where he came in si<o,; the galleries and derisive laughter from the UepuhlicansO -New Y re Herald s telegraphic Congressional report, December lo. — The Washington correspondent of tlie New York Ex- press, December 14, thus commented on tliese proceedings: There was a good deal of excitement in the House to-night, owin.^ to a revelation from Mr Ashmore, of South Carolina, (successor of Mr. Orr) on account of a revelation that since he had taken his seat in the lions from Mr Ashmore, of South Carolina, (successor of Mr. (J, o Mv wir / ''''''S''^T tt''\'^'^''^ ^'^ ^="^ taken his seat in the lions,. aMr.Willis, from the North, had been detected in the Greenville Dis trict, circulating the Helper book and other incendiary pul^lir-.-uio, s aniongthe free negroes of his District. They had the mail in the jail' and found posted over the room where fie stopped a card that ' the Helper pamphlet could be had without cost at the New York Tribune office •' Several Southern members declared that such a man ought to be hune and when Mr. Ashmore declared that he would be hung, two thirds of the gallery responded to the sentiment with loud applause." MURDER IN SOUTH CAROLINA. "A fearful tragedy was enacted at Chappell's Depot, South Carolina, on the niornmg of February 6th. It seems that a man calling himself James C. liungmgs, was observed prowling about the vicinity for several davs narinr/ apparently no recognized business to detain him in the place The Vigilance Committee watched his movements closely. He was finallv tracked, on Sunday night (the 5th), and the Commit*.ee, being satisfied of his evil intentions, arrested him, and upon examination, found anv quantity of papers, showing that he was one of Brown's associates, with a com- mission to go into all the South, with a view of corrupting the minds of the negroes, to make as many converts as possible to the Abolition faith and to induce as many negroes as possible to decamp for the North The evidence ivas deemed sufficient, and he was taken into custody and detained for the niaht. In the morning, he was led forth in front of Chappell's Kailroad Depot, and told to prepare for immediate execution. There were about hfty persons present, but not one voice was raised to save him front his terrible doom. After offering up a long prayer, the wretched man asked to see a clergyman, but there being none present, he called on God to torgive the Vigilance Committee, if they were in error; or if he was the one who erred, to have mercy on his soul. He was then mounted on a ladder, a rope with a slip-knot put round his neck, the other end of which was drawn over the limb of a tree. At nine o'clock, A. M. the ladder was knocked from under him, his neck was broken, and in a few minutes he was dead ! The body was left hanging to the tree until twelve o clock, the time at which the passenger train is due from Columbia. It was then cut doAvn, and the mortal remains of James C. Buno-incrs were given to the medical students for dissection." ° ° — This is the only account we have of a murder that can- nibals might shudder at. To assassinate a stranger, whose only offence was that he had '^ apparently'" no recognized business, is a height of savage atrocity never previously at- tained by human nature in any civilized country. It is a mere and very flimsy pretext that he was one of Brown's associates, " with a commission to go into all the South ; " for 130 sports of Heathen Gentlemen. the biograi)htT of the hero of Harper's Ferry, his family, and his contidential friends, assure us that no such person ever visited either of the Carolinas. " The evidence was deemed sutlicient." This phrase proves tliat the statement about the papers found on liis person was an aflertiiought ; for liad such documents been found on him the writer would have emi)loyed a far stronger phrase. " He called on God to for- give the Vigilance Committee ! " May this Christian hero yet find a biographer who shall truly trace his life and death, and unearth the names of his cowardly assassins ! — The Columbia South Carolinian, January 14, says: " Wc have been reliably informed that an incendiary was discovered in. Clarendon District, taken in hand by a Vigilance Committee, and hung. Wu have not heard the particulars. JFrom the summary penalty inflicted, the evidence must have been very palpable and the offence heinous." NORTHERN MEN DISFIGURED. X YTASIIINGTOX, Dec. 8, 18o9.— Thirty-two gentlemen, agents of New 1 V York and Bu^on houses, arrived here to-day from the South, and » T report the feeling of indignation so great against Xortherncrs, that they were compelled to return and abandon their business. These gen- tlemen have been known for years as traders in the South. They also report that Xorthnnwrs of long residence in the South have been disfiyttred, and driven from tJieir homes. Eleven business men, who were on their way South, returned last night, after having reached a station in Virginia, beijig turned back by a Vigilance Committee. They say the feeling in six of the States through which they have passed is very intense against the North, and against the continuance of the Union. — Telegraphic De- spatches of the Associated Press. ALABAMA BARBARISM. WE learn from the Auburn Signal, that some short time ago (in December), near Society Hill, Macon county, Alabama, a man named L. Stearns, claiming to be from Montgomery, was caught tampering with a JMr. Richardson's negroes. He was driven off, and a party of citizens caught and whipped him. — The Independent, Dec. 29, says an Abohtionist in Clayton, Alabama, was brought before a meeting of the citi- zens, whose sentence was to array him in tar and feathers, and then ride him on a rail around the town. The resolution was carried into eflect, and the Abolitionist was ordered to leave the State within two days. Sports of Heathen Gentleiiic!!. ! ;i VIRGINrA BARBARISM. THE Wytheville (Va.) Tclegrapli, in December lasl, tliud gloried in the barbarism of its Slate : " A philanthropic pil<>;iim from the land of wooch^i n , -' jr^ J^ V'% ^^iki ■l>w# r'*" «^^?^??aiff. V"-, ■-■■ - ^''X'itfPr^l L'BRARv O^ CONGRESS J 12 026 702 4 • HoUinger Corp, pH8.5