Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-23
CORRESPONDENTS.
For the Freeman.
For the Freeman.
Hold the miscreant up, that freemen may
look at him!


Mr.. EDIroR:-We learn, from undoubted au-
thority, that on Wednesday, the 18th Of August
inst, female was in open day caught, bound with
bed cords, and thrown into wagon, Gas sheep
or swine would be cast,) and started for the land
of slavery land this too in the free air, amid the
free hills of Vermont, in the town of Hartford, in
Windsor county,! 1t seems that an animal, dres-
sed like man, (tho' it would be Iibelling human
ity to call him man, because destitute Of those
qualifications which constitute mani by the name
of Bailey, from the State of Georgia, came into
Vermont a few weeks since on visit to his rea-
tives, bringing with him this female, whom he cal
led his slave. She having been informed that her
pretended 'owner' had no legal claim to her by our
laws, concluded that she would for the future be
her own owner. She therefore left the place Of
her masters temporary residence, and sought a
retreat among some friends of suffering humanity
a few miles distant until this Southern hyena, her
master, should return to the 'chiyalrous' land Of
robbery and blood. But this specimen of the mo-
BILE generosity of the slaveholder,' not thus to
be baked He procured miserable being, by the
name of Col. Samuel Mutt, Of Hartford JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE FOR WINDSOR County, to turn
catchpole and ferret out the lurking place of the
slave. And having found her place of retreat,
these two magnates, Georgia Shareholder and a
Vermont magistrate, proceeded to bind their fellow
being hand and foot, in open day, in the presence
of several females. threw her into wagon, and
the STAKEHOLDER drove off with his victim-neither
of whom have been since seen in the vicinity, and
ere this time, no doubt, she has suffered the full
measure of the penalty which Shareholders Away;
infict on those chatteIs' who presume to think
themselves human beings and entitled to the right:
of humanity.
Vermonters what think We of SLAVERY on your
own Green Mountain sol' What think yc Of tina
Bailey, the stakeholder? What a noble Presiden
of the U. States he would be! How he would
be careful to guard the rights of the most humble
individual of the community! But, frcemen o
Vermont, that dastardly Bailey is no worse thai
your Polk and your CLAY Nay-not so bad
lie stole but one human being-thcy steal the
dozens. He, in this instance, committed but one
robbery, conjoint robbery, against God and mar
THEY rob God and man by the scores. THEl
trample on human rghts-blast human hopes
crush human happiness, by the wholesale Coz
ALMIGHTY save our country from such rulers :
COP ALMIGHTY either bring to repentance, o
spew out from his church on earth, every sue
false professor as can betray the Son OF MAN
by voting for either the one or the other Christ
ian where is thy FAIrH-in GOD, or MAN'
As for Samuel Mutt, the shareholders catchpole
his deeds will be recorded in characters so tangi
BILE, that neither he, nor his purse, nor yet poster
ty, will forget the Vermont MIscREANT, the slave
holders catchpole, SAMUEL MUTT.
Yours, &C.. ANXIOUS.