Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-08-31
MONDAY. August al, 1875
ANOTHER ARRE,STi=

excitement, by the arrival OF Il man whom.
had DESIGNATED as an active and Influential A.
ZIONIST from the North-no less parsonage H.,
James +. Otis, Esq a distinguished lavyo.
Portland Maine, and co-cditor of paper min.
IN that place. appeared dat Mr.. Otis had l.,
to the lrglnia Springs, and, While on his 49,,
home wards IN the stage, had INDUCED tho :.
y member with no little freedom, on the Aha
ltIon question. lie was understood to La,o.
serted, IN alnsion TO the rewards reported ,o h..
been offered in the South fer Tappan and bixo.,
mo associates, that the Southern people were ..r
w'nd'-lhat, if Tappan Il Co. should come ann.
lis, we would be glad to take of orr hat, ia ,L..
instead of arfcsling and Furnishing thcm-an5 ~
ed, II we were 50 eager TO seize Abolilion;.,s -
ne was permitted to travel unmolested ao,,.
that nc prolessed their sentiments, was y l..5,.
member Of their Society, attended Anil
Conventions, made Abolition speccle, 49,,
was as ready as they to suffer martvrdom N,
cause As S Don as these facts were made lno.
IN Lexington, a gentleman of that place. o,o;.,
led further to suspect Mr.. Otis, from the tct ,l,,
IN going to the Natural Bridge, he had refusal,
leave his trunk behind, as his companion, IN Il.
trip had done0 applied to several magistrate, f.,
procure warrant to apprchend and search him
all OF whom declined, in the absence ola ,n,c;G.
charge, to grant the warrant, until they werc,,
length assured that Jadsc Lyach would tale ii,
matter in his own hands. \ warrant was ,heo ~
taincl.
KS soon as the company returned TO Lryipot,o
from the Bridge, the carriage was surrounded II,
an excited multitude and Mr. Otis, percciyn, H..
unpleasant predicamant in which his mprudcOcc
TO call 1t by no harsher name-aad involved
him, endeavored to allay the storm he had cy,.
ted, by declaring that his sent ments had boon
wholly misunderstanding he had, it was rc
his own peculiar notions upon the subject of S2.
very, but that, since he had visited the Soul bn
was perfectly convinced that abolition wa>,ne.
" mpractlcablc, and that the Slave popplajo
were IN a better condition than the white alorip
classes of the North-tha, he admitted tina, the c,
elusive control of the whole matter was yc,d
in the South and denied that the non-,layeholdirr
States had any right whatever to interfere with r.
lie made, in deed, such strenuous proleys.
tons of his innocence of all evil DESIGN. AM
these protestatons being supported, upon a
examinations of his person and baggage, by III
absence of all tangible evidence of the con,
tfary, that, Notwithstanding several persons
the crowd, not entirely satisfied, were in fa !
vor of Lynchne him. he was, by the ACTIVE
eNcrtions of others, and the general rrpugnanc
oil the community to punish, except upon the
clcarest evidences ofgut, permitted to 90 unsca,h
ed.
1t Is proper to observe here, that Mr. OTIS ur
gently requested that no publication should
made OF the aliair-or at least that his name nigh
be concealed and in order to save his feelings III
was SO promised. But, two or three DAYS after his
departure from Lexington, the Richmond Enoui.
rer, OF the 2lst. was received at that place conf
tanning an extract from the .irgus, printed in Port
fand (Alr o. place of rcsdence) stating that he i
has long been a furious inti-,Siauerv alrocCh
has delivered pubic addresses on the subject, At
tended Conventions, and disseminated, 50 far as
his pubic influence extended, the disorsanizim
and detestablc principles of that crew of fanatics
and warning the people of the South to bcOt
their guard against hint thus confirming the cha.
ractcr given by himself of himself in the Stage
when he was SO eager torthe crown of martyrdon,
but which he found it convenient to DENY whentn
said crown glittercd before his terrified vision.
This extract, the gentlemen who promised Nj.
Otis to conceal his name, consider absolyes then
from tlatpledge-and they therefore feel at periec
liberty to hold him up to the detestaon of tie =
South, as dangerous incendary, and to the soon
OF the Abolitionists themselves, as a dastardy DE-
serter of his principles. The gentleman was IuChy
in leaving Lexington before the ENQUIRER reached
that place. Had it preccded him, he would We
are assured, have been inevitably Lynclcd-
from which his talents and his personal respeca'T
bllhy, so far from cxempting him, would only have
rendered more certain
We deeply regret the state of feeling who'll
o'' occurrences OF such scenes but too plainly ~
aicatc lie the consequences on those fanatics wh
have excited it. They who SOW the wind mus
not complain if they reap the whirlwind
W. 1t is stated in the Petersburg Constelaton n
that reward of two thousand dollars each, is Of N
fered in Beaufort, S. c. for the bodies of the toa
principal AbolItonists of the North, (he two laF
pans, Garrison and Thompson,) or the like SUB
Tor either otthem. Why omit Leavitt, Cox ar
Wright
W 1t Is said that Thompson, the English ri
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