The Vermont freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1842-1843, 1842-12-10
North Star appeared we labored hard upon it

and it gave us peace The people seemed to
receive it joyfuIIy. Instead of utter annihia-
ton, as we expected, we were quietly received,
and it shone OIL the people. Our publisher. it
Is true, was requested by the subscribers of his
other paper, the Boston Courier, net to allow
our pacard to be seen in front of Is State ST.,
and our printer was told his Office would be
pulled down, but these little incidents only
nerved us for the battle. As the slave interest
had a 9 Bee" buzzing industrlously III It's IA
vor we sought to rouse up whole nest OF
" Hornets," for slave attornies, slave hunters.
and slave agents We spared none who offend
ed us. By and by we heard of another plan,
and We signed paper to Mr.. EyeIeth request
ing him to remove Coolidge the jaof, for mis-
use of the jail Mr.. E. quietly kept this letter
ed by S. E. Sewall, and others of like stamp
OF course any request from such vile sect
the abolitionists needed no notice from such
dgntary he! Finding effect produced,
these same fanatics caused petition to be sign
iSsernor Davis, requesting him to remove
for.hAEth Mr.. Eveleth from the office of Sheriff.
Two or three lawyers were requested TO sign
this petition and refused, but of them said
he would speak with the high Sheriff and tell
him what being done, aud see what he
thought of the matter Meanwhile the petition
was signed and sent to the Governor, and the
lawyer calling upon Mr.. E., learned to his sur
prise, that what we and all interested in the
slave had been trying to press upon the public
was true, viz, that La,imer illegally con-
fined in Jail, that our public State property had
been made the barracoon of Southern slave
driver; that this was done by Coolidge, as agent
of Gr0y. He learned moreover, that this was
done with the tnrit consent Of Chief Justice
Shaw and High Sherif Eurleth:
Extempo magnas it Fama per ubes
All the lawyers were suddenly az hast the
laws had been Injured; every one decided
against Mr.. Eveeth. Even Judge Shaw then
said that Mr. E. volunteer" The eff
feet of these two petitions, we assure our read
ers, very amusing to us who were looking
on. We saw that the tyrants were about to
tick the dust. So the rnmor went, "vires que
ado lirit eundo" On Friday last, the trials Of
the rioters came on and Latiner was demand
ed as a witness by Il writ of habeas corpus
Worse and worse. Sheriff Eveleth is in great
consternaion Poor man he knows not what
to do lie returns as answer that he has no
such prisoner. Yet he is not such fool as not to
think that all the world we'll knows that hui
man being is held illegally in the Jail which is
under his sole direction. The writ is served on
Coolidge, who in trepidation says the man shall
come forth. Late in the afternoon of Friday
Sheriff E. appeared i'll the office of one of the
friends of Latimer and with symptoms of al
most mortal agony, and with the g sweat OF
his brow standing in drops. begged that all
further proceedings in regard to this petition to
the Governor for his own removal from office
might be quashed, and in order to promote this
worthy end he read aloud an order ~ Mr. Cool
idge to give up Latimer before IL O'Clock, the
tsS,al,y and prohlbiion for him ever ~ re-
teive another slave within the precincts OF li.e
| Jail unless under the proper order OF some com
| petent court. He assured them that the whole
confinement of Latimer during the fortnight hat
been contrary to his own Wishes but that thu
| tacit consent of Judge Shaw had sustained hin,
| A few hours previously to this interview we hat
had overtures from Mr.. Austin, stating that
we would pay $500, Latmer should be set free
We thanked our counsel, but having previous
agreed with Mr.. Coolidge and at Mr.. C.'s re
| quest, that if Latmer were made free at Z,
! NJ, we would give $3.50 as the expenses of thu
trial, we politely declined the request of Mr.. A.
though really thong ht the price had dimin
| ished vastly within a week. viz, from $500 t
$500. All our arrangements were prepared be
fore we knew of Mr.. Eveleths order alread
| mentioned, and of course that decided no
to give one cent. We felt sure that Mr. E
and MIR. Coolidge would not allow Latimer t
be carried away, for the loss of their offices wou
have been the consequence. We therefore Wis
tied the Jail and informed Mr.. C.. that thong
| all the money was in our pocket we had decide
not to give any of it to him, aud we warned hin
to br.care of allowing Latimer to be taken ava
during the night. The tables were quite tur,
ed, and pe triumphed, but must confess GU
heart smote us at perceiving the utter cons,erns
before us now, the perfect picture of despair
We pilied him as the old English Admiral pit
led the French whom he was demnishing,-
cit smote his very soul to cut their throa,s,-
and then-he cut their throats.' We left hin
i fully believing that Latimer would be free an
Massachusetts would be erect again on the MOI
l row. and the vile slave-hunter would retur
), with curses on his lips to Norfolk.
Late in the evening, we received advice frol
, two prominent lawyers to 60 down again an
make an arrangement with Mr. Coolidge
With great reluctance we went, and in fac
once turned away, determined not to enter tn
: Jail door, but finally we went to it for the pu
i pose Of conversing again with MIR. Cooldg
~ found bargain had been concluded fl
4 $50 by another gentleman. As the matte
2 as settled we chose to agree to pay one ha
6fthe money, with the understanding with NJ
: Coolidge that not one iota OF 1t was to be use
except to pay. in part, the expenses incurred
d Gray. Within half an hour afterwards we sa
h Latmer free, and we felt that the cause Of fre
d dom had trumphed, that in future shou
! have no hunting Of men in the old Bay State
' But, fellow citizens, let us look out for trou
t lous times at the next session of Congress, ar
d let US not be taken sleeping, for, be assure
: the viper Of slavery will yet again seek to Ell
a -tw;pe itself around. ns Nv new law ar SON
is modification ofthat passed fifty years ago upc
K this subject. I'd -.' s7"
l. The UNION THE BuLwARK OF SLAVERY
= the great Mississippi slave case, Mr.. Clay to-
is the ground that the connection of Mississip
~ with the Union was necessary to her securi
n against ner slaves. He showed, fsays the &C
d respondent of the Colored American,) that q
y, safety of Mississippi consisted in her connect
re with Union that she owed her security agar