Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-28
Iune 90, 1897.
r,om the Boston Transcript.

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10 prove the intelligence OF the former
The miserable boys heart appears to have
been as light as il has proved insensible.
Concord County Jail August 18th 1896
Nv dear Mother inow take this oppor-
,unity To inform you that am in the Con-
cord Jail and that am Poor as Crow
md that want You to send me half
dollar and send me my Best suit OF Clothes
and two pair Of Stockings 2 shirts and
want you 70 starch The Collar Of one of
my shirts to Wear When Go to Court
want you should Wash My PantaIoons
and Vest and TO send Them up By the
Stage and want you To With me Let
ter and Tell Me How. you All are and
Mic is with me am Happy An Content
ed and Enjoying Good Health and Hope
YOU are the same want you 10 Write and
ielI me when Edward Will come down
Home and If he Comes Down Before
get out want Him to Come and see me.
Remember me 10 all Your afectionate
Son. MIachel Monhan.
Ort,ils-Mrs Bridget Richardson.
Cambridge Port Mass,
or course We do not know what effect
this letter had upon the jury, or how ia,
they received it as afording proof OF his
intelligence; but il strikes US that the evil
dence is rather negative than otherwise
The lad was evidently not conscious Of
his dangerous position in the world; he
seems TO have looked upon his imprison-
ment and approaching trial rs accidents,
with which he had very little to do, and
which must come to on end some time or
othcr--but no thought Of any other end
than liberation seems to have crossed his
mind His wish to see Edward-a br 9TH
or, propably-befors he gels out, is really
md unalIectedly touching. It is evident
that a speedy. and violent, and shameful
death enters not ut all into the current OF
his IDEAS touching the future,-N. York
Spectator.
d. CAPTURE OF SLAVE TRADBRs-In
the Anti-Slavery Convention. The other
day, the co|ored preacher. Mr.. Snowdcn
who breaches in the African Church in
Boston. made-a speech, in which he spoke
with much feeling on the slave trade
He is himself freed slave. In the course
Of his remarks, he used this language,
pretty much verbatim:
N "Sirs, il there lisa, God who hears
prayer the slave dealers must tremble
when they think how many pro sers ale
going up to him from bond and free, that
he would break the chain Of the slave
Sirs, God, we know, answers the prayers
Of the eolored people. We are all the
time PRAYING that the accursod slave
ships may be captured by his Majesty s
cruisers. We want them to be captured
by the British, and then we know the
poor slaves will be free. II the . nited
States vessels take them, they will be car
riei into some southern port, and sell the
slaves 10 pay the expense. So we pray
for his Majesty's cruisers. and every once
in q while they pick up slave ship
blessed be God especially the old Buz
.zard t.. say, to my brethren, pray Coz
that the old Buzzard may have goot
wind H.
The Buzzard has been remarkabl.
successful in capturing sIavers. From
December. 1884, to July, 1886, eighteeI
4. months, the British cruiser alone. com
manded BY the gallant Lieut.. Campbell
captured ten slave ships, containing 34o
Africans. All but two OF the ships wer
under Spanish colors. The prize none
amounted 10 to $500 to each seamen o
board the b:igantine Can it be Possibl
that the captured slaves are ever sold |
the u. States 7-Bos Press.
.AcT1oN ON SLAvERY.-A vote Of tn
church at Lamprey River Village. New
market, n. H, dated May 4, 1887,
Whereas, in the judgment Of tn
church, American slavery, is not only
great sin against God, but directly, or i
directly, the positive, repeated, constar
and palpabIe violation Of every hum'
right, aud every divine requirement-ar
whereas, under this conviction, we cam
eonscientiously suffer ourselves 10 incr
the charge recorded in Ps. so: lS,
extending the hand Of Christian fellowsh
10 shareholders, in this period Of compar
tive light respecting that siu-Therefol
- Voted, unanimously, That hencefc
ward. no STAKEHOLDER be allowed TO le
in our public devotions. neither TO cor
tothe communion table withtAis church.
WILLrAM DIxoN.-This interesti
case is proceeding before the Recorder
our paper goes to press. Arthur Jon'
respectable colored man from Boston
on the stand, who testiies that he ship
Dixon from Boston in 1926, on board
brig John Gilpin, and produced an e
dence Of debt, signed by the captain,
seph Conthony, dated Boston, May
Is26.p--EmaHcipGIOr.
Tux LATE RIoT.-We have reeei,
o Communication reciting some Of
shameful atrocities oil the riot on Sund
IChas struck others as we'll as our c