Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-09-27
Appeal to the Public,
tendance.

AppOul w IhO
Two respectable citizens of Massachusetts are
now lying in Southern las, loaded with irons, on
a charge Of aiding suffering fellow men in attempts
to escape from cruel bondage JONATHAN
WALKER belongs to Harwick, Cape Cod, and
has been engaged in the coasting trade. He is
man of unblemished character a member of the
Baptist church, and an honest and industrious,
though poor man. He has wife and large fami-
y of children. The annexed letter tells his story.
He now lies in prison at Pensacola, waiting his
trial, without funds TO employ counsel land his fam
a Congregational minister, in good and regular
standing. He was successor to the Rev. DR.. Chez
YER of this city in the pastoral charge of church
in Salem, Mass. and has since been an antl-save-
ny lecturer and editor. His grandfather was the
Hon. Charles Turner, formerly member of Con-
gress, and he married daughter of the Rev. DR..
Ide. He has wife and three children dependent
upon him for support. He now lies in the Balti-
more Jail. An appeal to the public has been made
in Boston, on behalf of Mr.. Torrey, and with
the funds contributed counsel have been retained
still larger amount is necessary for his defence,
and the committee making this appeal will act in
concurrence with the committee in Boston.
Friends of Religion Humanity, Freedom and the
Constitution
Shall two of your fellow citizens, respectable
and worthy men, who visited the South on lawful
business, be seized, at the instgaton of save-tra-
ders, be put in irons, be thrust into loathsome as,
be liable to conviction on the testimony ofi1terest-
ed or perlured witnesses, and be exposed to drag
out their days in State prisons for the sake of LIB
ERTY? In the case of Capt. Walker, the alleg-
ed offence was committed, if at all, in territory
of the United STATES where Slavery does not con-
stituonaIly exist: and in the of Mr.. TOrrey,
he is under indictment in the States of Maryland
and Virginia, at the same time, and therefore de-
MED the privilege of bail under the laws of one or
both of those States contrary, as is thought by en-
menent Northern lawyers to- the Constitution of
the United States. You are earnestly appealed to
for contributions in behalfof Jonathan Walker and
Charles L. Toney and their afflicted families,
that able counsel may be employed to argue the
great constitutional question involved in these
causes, that suitable agents may be sent to Pensa-
cola and Baltimore to befriend and aid our linear
cerated fellow citizens, and that every iudicious
and lawful measure may be taken to prevent their
convctson--a twenty years. imprisonment-and
the continued anguish and suffering of their wives
and little ones. In view ofthe natural rights of
man, of the honor of our country, of the Declara-
tion oflndependence, of The Constitution, and of
our Holy Religion, we appeal to you to contrib
ute literally for the purposes named, and the
blessing Of MIN that was ready to perish will
ccIue upon you
Money may be left with either of the following
gentlemen. The same will be duly acknowledged
WV 1" Va y" WIN HNiS"itNh W
given in the public prints:-
Maine-Portand, Hon. Samuel Fessenden.
>, Ealowell Ebenezer Dole. Esq.
NewHamp shire-Portsmouth, James Novel;.
Concord, N P. Rogers, Esq
Vermont--Middebury DR.. J. A. Allen.
Brandon, J. Holcomb.
Montpelier, Rev. J. C. Aspnwall.
Massachusetts, Boston, j. W. Alden.
Rhode Isand-Providence VIM G. Chaplin.
Observation-Disclosures, VIM. Fl. Burlegh.
NewHaven, Dea. Amos Townsend, Jr.
New Jersey-Newark, Thomas V. Johnson.
Newly ork-New-York Lewis Tappan.
Albany James G. Jackson.
Rochester, George A. Avery
Observation-Disclosures S. D. Hastings.
Pittsburgh, VIM. Petit.
Ohio-Cleveand, John M Sterling, Esq.
Cecinnati, DR.. G, Bailey, jr.
Michigan-Detroit, Horace Hallock.
lllinois-Chcago, u. Eastman.
The gentlemen designated are requested to give
wide circulation to this appeal, and editors o
newspapers throughout the free states are solicited
to give it one or more insertions.
By order of the executive committee of the A.
merican and Foreign Anti Slavery Society
) LEWIS TAPPAN, Treasurer.