Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-12-20
Macon, 9Oth Sept, 1914.
DEAR Sri

DEAR SR:-
We learn that YOU have recently returned from
a protracted visit to the North, and while there
met with some difficulty in retaining IA fugitive
May we trespasS upon your attention Tor
d brief statement of the embarrassments under
which you Iabored, and a history of the personal
peril you encountered in the PROCLAMATION OF your
property. You will readily perceive that our OBJ
ject iH addrsF,ng you this note, is, TO- ascertain
from u reliable source, the true position OF the
Whig and Democratic parties at the north, in re-
gard to thegreat and absorbing question of a6oh-
ton,
A Georgian by adoption, and identified as you
are with the South, in all the interests OF a perma-
nent citizen, aud so extensively known through
out our limits, your statement cannot fail to carry
with it a most salutary influence.
Respectfully your friends,
SAMUEL B. HUNTER,
WILLIAM SOLOMON,
A. P. POWERS,
H. X. GREEN.
d. C. CAMPBELL,
ROBERT COLLINS,
Col. S.. T. Bailey, Vineville.
Vineville, 1st Oct. 1914.
GEATLEMEN:-Your note reached me last night,
recurring Il statement of the trials and perils which
| encountered this summer at the north, and the
position of the two great political parties, touch
ing abolition. 1t would require too much time and
space to detail half the striking incidents which
occurred in the affair to which you allude. Brief
ly-my servant was seduCed away from my sick
family during nv absence in Canada; | having
left them in Vermont. | ascertained on my return
in what part of the country she was cencealed-l
went with a friend, retook her, and conveyed her
to Baltimore. | was pursued though Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut, by the Abo-
litionists, with the energy of bloodhounds, but was
saved by a corresponding energy and vigilance OF
A few faithful friends. On my return to my faml-
" in Vermont, myself and friend were arrested on
a charge of kidnapping, punishable IN that State,
with ten wears Imprisonment in the Penltentlary,
Demons from He'll could not have manifested
more fcrocious malice than the gang who arrested
US, and yet the majority Of those who aided and
took a part in the prosecution, did not profess to
be abolitioniSts. After Il tedious trial, we were
discharged on the ground that it was not proven
that my. servant was forced away against her vii
/ Inference in the conduct of the Wings and Dem
ocrnts was most striking. The latter came in from
a distance. even from New Hampsh ire, although
most of them strangers to me. and gave ulterance
lohd and deep, to their adherence and detesta
: ton of The Infamous proceedings. those IRON
New Hanusbire, swore that no southern gentle
man conld be treated thus in their state, whiIe 'C'
e Whias. with a few honorable exceptions, stool
coIdly aloof, or directly aided in the prosecution
y one oil nv FeldllbtS1 a CiilbN VI nv
Church Informed me that whenever he attemPte'
to yinIicnte me to the members of his church, Inc
would inter- one united voice Ct condemnation am
+ yc, bo y" ~ well rs they, were Wings. indeedsv
!, found throughout the New England and MiddV
T. States, a deeeprooted hatred of shareholders a
monpst the mass Of the whole wing party, trav
eled throughout all those States and watched wit
an anx;ons desire to learn the truth, | trayeIe
incog, ~ far as practicable, that they might nc
kno4w' /" S,as n southerner, and thus give them fire
il scone +, sneak their minds withonth infringing o
NJ the rules Of politeness, and came to a settled cor o.
!" victjon IN my own mind, that a majority of tn
n. Democratic party at the North are the war;
e. friends II the South, and that a majority OF tn
r Who here are our enemies-that a large mi
= ioritv ~ the abolitiouists are from the Wing ranl
~ no honest man at the North pretends to den
1t But tha, there many Abolitlonists from the Den
ng ocratic ranks, and many good friends among tt
ID Wings is just as certain
Tbis state fittings is easily accounted for; II
Democratic party at the North, is with few e
centious the same that sustained the country dn
"a inc the I,sst war, while nearly all the leaders of 4
Wits in New England arc the old Federalists