The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-13
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! communication slshcd iIul'5 "htCh az
peared in the age few weeks since, we
give place to his article. Here is the
end of the matter, though, so far as the
Age is concerned.
For the Woodstock Age.
Mr.. EAsTMAN:--l perceive that a
writer, "rRUrn," in your last weeks
Age has put forth partial compilation
of Newspaper notices of the kidnapping
case, which caused some little excitement
last summer in the vicinity of Hartford
in this County. And inasmuch as coup
o Of communications furnished by me to
the Green Mountain Freeman occupy con-
spcuous positions in that compilaion
| hope not to be deemed vain or obtru-
sivc if claim the favor of adding to the
matters and things therein grouped to-
gcther, fact, or two, which came to my
knowledge after the date oltho communi-
cation relied on by yourIcorrespondcnt as
furnishing so triumphant vindcaton Of
Col. Mutt, in the matter.
FACTS ADMITTED.
That Col. S. Bailey, a Georgian slave
holder, brought female slave into said
Hartford in July or August last is an adj
mtted fact. It is admitted also. that said
female became, by the law Of the United
States, as admitted by the Courts of the
U. States, free person the moment she
rod the soil of Vermont, if not sooner
even than then. 1t is equally true, that
said female, then legally free, awaited
herself Other legal RICH, to liberty and
left the service other master Col. Bailey,
This fact :hc Col. himself admits in a
letter dated Oct. /, 1914, written in an
swer to inquiries by several gentlemen Of
Georgia respecting this same matter
This letter was first published in the
Macon TELEGRAPH, EXTRA, and repub,
lshcd in the G. NJ, Freeman of Dec.
20, 1914, and, in this latter paper, is
prelaccd with some very sensible and
logical remarks by the Editors and head
ed in plain English THE GEORGIAN
STAKEHOLDER AND Ills CATcUpoLE" y
Had your correspondent Incorporated said
letter, with its accompanimcnts, into his
compilation above named, it would have
relieved me from the burden ofthese la
boris. And it occurs to me as a very
surprising circumstance, that during the
long and arduous researches among the
antislavcry documents of Vermont, n.
Hampshire and Massachusetts, for mat
ter for his compilation, that your cores
pondent did not meet with something,
which might have directed him to the lat
ter, especially as it has been published
and commented on over and over in a
majority, if not in all three, of those
States. However, late as it is, COM
mend this letter to his pcrusal, before
he rciteratcs the assertion, that this
whole affair is ''ihc cNtaNeous eruption Of
the brain ofsomc over jealous friend OF
the Observation-Disclosures" But, proceed
ing with the subject, it is also true (or
the Col admits in the same letter. that
after he had been informed in what part
Of the country his servant was concealed,
Col Bailey with his friend Whose name
is not mentioncd) event and rcto0k her
and conveyed her to Baltimore" The
truth undoubtedly is, for such is the story
of the eyewitness of the transaction, that
the chivalrous COL from the chvalrous
State Of Georgia aided by the rcdoubtabl2
Col. (who by mistake located himself on
the wrong side Of the Connecticut River
did most vigorously succeed in driving
this poor defenceless female up among the
rubbish Of a garnet among tn" backset-
tiers of the County, and there with force
and arms these two military commanders
fearlessly conquered and bound her, and
thus "rctooIl and conveyed her to Balti-
more" In view of such proves Of her
citizen soldiery on the soil once trod by
Allen and Warner propose most respec-
fully to the magnanimous State of Geor-
gia (of Missionary memory that in lieu
Of her present Coat Of arms, with the
view Of transmitting to poserity the men,
DRY of this achicvement,) she substitute
the folIowing-Two Colonies IN FULL
UNIFORM with the stars and stripes way
ing DER them, RECArTuRING A POOR OLD,
FEIENDLEsS, EMANcIPATED FEMALE
SLAVE.
Now hear the COL further, II quote
from the same letter. con my return
to my family in Vermont, myself and
friend were arrested Ii. c. Col. Bailey
and Col. Nutt) on charge ofkidnapping
punishable in that State with ten years
Imprisonment in the pcnctentary, De-
mons from He'll could not have maniIes-
ted more ferocious malice" (possbly the
Col, was little frightenedD ethan the
gang, who arrested US, and yet the major
ity of those, who aided and took part in
the prosecution, did not profess to be alb
oitionists. After a tedious trial, We
were discharged on the ground, that it
was not proccn that my servant was
forced away against her will, and there
fore no kidnapping"
Here Col. Bailey drops this subject
and proceeds to discuss at length the