The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-01-23
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humble individual Of the community! But,
freemen Of Vermont, that dastardly Bailey
is no worse than your Polk and your Clay.
Nay-not so bad. He stole but one hn-
man being-They steal their dozens. He
IN this instance, committed but one rob-
berry, conjoint robbery against God and
man--tEey rob God and man by the scores,
They lrample on human righis-blast hu-
man hopes-crush human happiness by the
wholesale! God Almighty save our conn-
try from such rulers! God Almighty eth
er bring to repentance, or spew OUT from his
church on earth, every such false profess
or as can betray the son Of man by voting
for either the one or the other! Christian!
where is thy faith-in God or man?
As for Samuel Mutt, the Shareholders
catchpoe, his deeds will be recorded in
characters so tangible, tina, neither he, nor
his purse, nor his poslerty, will forget The
shareholders catchpole, Samuel Mutt
Yours, &C.. ANXIOUS.
From this Aaring and flaming text, the
Granite Freeman, an abolition paper prin.
ted at Concord, N. H., preached as fol.
lows, Aug, 90
Slaucry in Vermont.-A slaveholder
brought his female slave to Hartford, Vt.
recently, and she refused 10 return with
him. She escaped from him but by the
assistance OF Justice of the Peace, was
recaptured, bound and conveyed back into
hopeless bondage The poor creature had
recently been torn from her husband who
had recently been sold in another dircc.
ton. and she bore upon her person the
marks of very cruel usage. We hope,
Tor the credit Of the good people of Hart.
ford, that this Outrage was perpetra,ed
without their knowledge. We are 10th to
believe they would have permitted it. We
hope they will at least teach the Justice of
the Peace, who allowed himself TO be used
for SO base a purpose, the true spirit of
Vermont law.
And the MiddIesex Standard, another
abolition paper printed at Lowell, Ms, al
Sc, on the same day preached from the same
text, as follows:
More Of the Stare casc-We find in the
last Green Mountain Freeman a commu.
nicalion detailing The particulars of case
of kidnapping or slaye-catching, in Hart.
land, w., doubtless the same person who
was hurried through on the cars from
Nashua TO Boston on the 10Th. 1t ap.
pears that one Bailey, from the state of
Georgia, went to Vermont a few weeks
since on visit to his relatives, taking with
him woman whom he called his slave
She. having been informed that her preien-
ded owner hadlnoI gal claim 20 her on the
free soil of Vermont, sought retreat
among some friends of humanity a few
miles distant. But the 'chivalrous' son of
Beial was not 10 be baked, He procured
a dastardIy catchpole by the name of Sam.
uel Mutt, a Justice Of the Peace, and by
their joint efforts the woman was ferreted
out, caught in open day, in presence of
several females-hound hand and foot
thrown into a wagon, and by the slave
holder hurried off!
All this in VERMoNT-,he land of Al
LEN, and WARNER, and HARRINGToN! in
VERMONT, whose laws have made it Pc
nal offence in any citizen or magistrate to
assist IN the execution of the infamous law
Of Congress of 1893. for the rescue of flu.
glives from slavery! Sons of the Green
Mountains Let the deep dalnnaton of his
taking off ring over your bone-strewed
baltIe-feIds! Let Bennington and Hub
hardton speak for the slumberng dead -
Let the bones of old HARRINGTON rattle
under the clods Of Clarendon! Let the
clank Of the slave-shackle summon you
from every hill and valley! Vidicaie your
violated charter-rights by voting for liberty
on the third of September
Well, Col. Mutt and Mr. Bailey were
taken up" tried and acquitted. The tri.
al was attended by Judge Hutchinson who,
we understand was satisfied that the charg-
es in the Freeman were false
COL Mutt, shortly after addressed a let
ter to the editor o(the Freeman calling on
him for The name Of the author OF the sour
rilous and bombastic effusion of August
23d, signed "Amicus," and informing him
that he must do one Of two things, back
ont or back up. In reply to which pressing
call, the Freeman of Oct. 25th contained
the following:
MR E,IToR:-You, and your readers
will doubtless recollect communication in
the Freeman Of Aug. %, animadverling
upon what was then believed to be a cruel
case Of the forciLIe abduction of slave
from our slate back into slavery Tha,
communication was penned the same day
on which that transaction was related TO
me and substantially as received 1t. My
informant is an Intelligent and pious
minister ofthe gospel who tarried in Hart.
ford, (ihe scene of the supposed TRANSACT
lion.) the night Immediately following it.
He related the facts in presence of FIVE or
six persons, including myself, and gave
The names of cizens Of Hartford, (some of