Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-07-14

chairman, and DR. A. T. Ridley, secreta-
ry. VIM. Phillips Esq. having stated the
object of the meeting, committee was
be in possession of facts to confirm the in
telligence that Kitchell had been holding
communication with the black population
DR. Thomas accordingly came forward and
confirmed the statements set forth in the
letters. Kitchell was then taken and ex-
amined, and failing to give any satisfacto-
~ account of himself, on motion Of Col
F. N. White, the following committee of
IL was appointed to report a course of
proceeding, namely: Isaac T. Moreland,
William Phillips, Wilkins Jackson, DR.
R. c.. Clayton, Thomas J. Smith, Colonel
White, Joseph C. White, Maj. Weeks, A.
Alexander, John G. Morris, E, c. Butt,
James Johnson Esq
The committee retired, and after DELHI
eration made thefollowing Report, which
was unanimously adopted, viz:
The committee to whom was referred
the case of A. w. KitcheIl, report-That
upon examination they find sundry certi6-
Gates and other papers of a suspicious and
spurious character, and have thought
proper to retain the same in the hands of
the secretary until further information is
obtained concerning them.
The committee would advise that said
Kitchel should be rode around the viii
lage on rail, with band of all kinds of
music, playing the Rogue's March-that
his head should then be tarred and feath-
cred, and again rode round the village as
betore-that he should also leave the
state within ten days from this time, un-
der the penalty of Lynch's law.
Upon motion it was
Resolved, That the. proceedings of this
meeting be published in the public ga
; zettes of Mlledgevile with request that
they be re-published in all papers oppos-
} ed to the fend-like purposes Of northern
abolitioniSts.
CuTHBERT REESE, Chairman.
2 ROBERT A. L, RIDLEY, Secretary
A further committee was appointed, in
$ formally, | understand, to carry out the
2 recommendation adopted by the meeting
; Poor Kitchell was accordingly stripped
! his head shaved and a covering oftar and
: lcdllCIS SuOStlCultu, anu TIC CdllIeu dOOu
! the town to the music of the Caluhumpiar
4 band.
! You can publish the proceedings OF
a not as you shall jud &c proper. | have no
9 thing to say myself, situated as am here
e Remarks by the Neuark Adv. The in
Vt dividual who has been thus barbarousl
6 treated by the citizens of sister state, il
6 a member of one of the most respectable
l. families in the state of New-Jersey {
d graduate of Princeton college; licen
tate of the theological seminary, and
l. young man of distinguished worth; anna
st Bile, unassuming, and we hesitate not t.
t. say, unofending. We are assured bv
'r friend who has an intimate knowledge O
ot his whole history, that there is nothin!
a obtrusive or offensive in his manners O
ct sentiments on any subject and moreover
1t that when he left home year ago, h
was decidedly opposed to the views of tn
e Abolltionists as a party. 1t is not at al
OF probable therefore that he has given an
l. just offence to the peopl lie of Georgia, an
a most certainly there could have been n
t. Just cause of such unceremonious, lnhu
RS man and savage treatment. What Woul
lie be the feelings Of these high minded Geon
IN gians, if the people of New-Jersey wer
or thus lawlessly to abuse citizen of tina
ar state, on any pretext whatever! II a
American had been so treated in Mexico
OF it would> have been deemed abUndar
OF cause for call upon the government fC
~ the punishment of the offenders; and
IN truth such a breach of every principle (
d courtesy and justice on our part migl
have made the country ring with cries tc
the separation Of the Union. But we 70
49, bear for the present, and shall wait for fu
Their and more particular information.
M Kitchell, we may remark, is a M
tive of Hanover, in Morris county, and
Il. a grand son of the late Hon Aaron KItcE
N ell, for many years a distinguished repre-
sentative in Congress from this state, an
subsequently a member of the L. S. Sci
ate.
nd REMARKS. Who can bear TO read til
en- account of a brutal outrage on an uno
DO Tending and respectable minister Of II
he gospel, sanctioned too by the whole pop'
lat la.ion of the place where the deed W;
r done, and unrebuked and unnoticed t
lie the law? If an American sailor were
ed be thus treated in any semi-barharor
I'D country, the magistracy refusing to int
IDS fere, and the government of that countl
nd taking no notice and affording no redres
mo how would the indignation of Ameri(
,ut rise at the outrage. 1t is fact, that viii
M we are censured by our governors and
IN gislators for the lawful exercise of our Ii
ia erty of speech and of thought in regard
nd immoralities prevailing in our sister state
the greatest crueItes and grossest indigr
DO ties are perpetrated on Peaceable citizel
lad Of the north, on bare suspicion, without