Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-07-28
such numbers, until at last they reached
the house and closed the door.

the mouse ana closed the door.
The leading fact, that the mob commenc-
ed the assault, can be established by the
testimony OF several persons who were
lockers on.
/. burnett was very much hurt, and Al
fred Burnett, a lad Of Is, received severe
! cut In the head. The rest were considera-
bly, bruised
The wife of T. Burnett, hearing that her
husband was dying, ran over in great haste
10 the scene Of violence, but before she
could obtain entrance into the house, was
roughly used, and cursed by the mob.
Z. Burnett, his three sons, and Leverage,
Lewis, and Erickson, an apprentice, were
arrested in the afternoon, and carried before
Esq Doty-a mob, greatly excited, follow
ling. ......"
The parties arrested admitted nothing,
but thought il best they should be commit
! ted, till the excitement was allayed. Esq.
Doty accordingly, as they declined giving
bail, which was demanded TO the amount Of
$4,000, committed them 10 prison.
| During the proceedings in the magis-
trate's office, the mob continued in a state
of high excitement. Mr.. Bunting, in dis
tcusslng some point connected with the case,
being challenged, aVoWed that he was an
anti slavery man. For this he received
severe blow in the mouth, and was driven
out Of the office, part of the mob follow
ing; and at the corner of Sd and Main-st.,
was struck several times. Taking shelter
] in the Henfie House on Sd ST., he was driv-
! Ell out, and found protection in lawyers
, office, opposite.
While the prisoners were on their way to
the Jail, it required a strong force to protect
them. An attempt was made to lynch them,
but the determined spirit Of the constables
, prevented.
! Five of them were bailed out Of Jail that
, night 1t was thought best that &. and J.
e Burnett should lie there till morning.
!. Friday night, the mob again assembled,
with the intention of destroying Mr.. Bur-
/. nett's property. They were prevented by
Esq. Doty and Gen. Hale, and finally dis
l. persed by Sheriff Avery.
j. made 10 get up another mob, the object be-
- ing not only TO destroy the property o!
j. Burnett, but to pull down the press of the
r. Philanthroplst.
l. A few remarks, and we conclude.
The increase in the spirit of violence II
: our city has been decided, since the add
ton TO the number Of our coffee houses
se | We walked about in the mob, and we knew
'r that alcohol had been doing its work
fd The attack on Burnett was in part OWN!
o. TO the number of souiherners now congre
gated in Cincinnati; their hostility to III
sv late decision Of the Supreme Court; thel
nj bitter denunciations Of this decision by tn
- Cincinnati Enquirer, democratic pape
!, and its calls upon the people virtually
~ annul il; and 10 the indignation aWakene
o. BY the decision among some Of our steam
ef boat captains, hotel keepers, and merchant:
&c oil Nf ho
&c Of Cincinnati, the floating part OF the poF
IT, ulaiion, irritaied and led on by such Unfit
,,d ences, seems resolved on defying the 81
7 preme Judicature of the State, and traml
ling on the constitution. La truth, this d.
~ termination was at the bottom OF the mob
OF The captain Of steamboat remarked {
ale 9Th street, lille the mob was on foot, IN
oil he would eve five dollars to any one wi
rec would drive Burnett from Cincinnati.
md pork merchant standina.by, said he won
,,n give another, and therewas not mercha
;,bP in Cincinnati who would not give his "
,'n The keeper of one of cur principal hot'
iel complained that his business had fallen
'leo sadly since the decision Of the Suprel
'os- Court. Ard another steamboat captain "
! at incensei, because it had been already Q
.iss- hundred dollars oul Of his pocket"
Who'll We mention these facts TO show WI
on kind of influences are at work IN ClncIEI
aud ii to PROSTATE all law, and make the Que
hen city the slave Of slaves:
him Now we tell these 9kniry, that they v
have TO settle this quesN0h, not with Us,
rag of Ohio, Lei Them answer. whether,
10 the sake of this mans pork, or that ma
bar, or the other mans love OF slave ira
| 10 poralion, they will suffer their Supre
lsed Court TO be dehed, and their constltu'
Nc made dead letter. =.-=
2,r Hereafter, we may End some facts
IA relate about this same colored man, claio
nau by McCalla, That will make the head
Pr 70 even mohocrat-haog,for shame.
i'e'' Rev. E. K. AVERY. We make
80 following extract from letter in the
- ton Post, written at Providence. 81
nc ments TO the same effect have appeared
a.' other papers. If the tale is true. it
emplifies in wonderful manner the
!. -. lcertainty Of circumstantiai evidence
. s-.3. also the severity with which public 0
-. ion sometimes Furnishes where there /:
,ha guilt; for there probably never wa
i - prisoner acquitted, of whose guilt the
pnysl lief MAS more universal or more cecF
m. IN. Y Spectator
istnr- / was at the lower END OF the stat
day or two ngo and stopped at the be-
iossd fui town of Bristol. While there h
marsla strange, but true story, which
yio- vet recall ths Rev. Ephraim *. Aver
Line Methodist clergyman, who was
babe years ago charged with the murder
nises Miss Sarah Maria Co'ne'--i"'o 'eP1
who sanding. es"...- ..
AT the lime that Mr.. Avery was II
larce ed, in accounting for his absence