Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-10
From he Boston Chronicle.
COL. s. T. BAILEY'S LETTER.

Br Wright:-In the Chronicle of the 24th, I find
a letter from Col S. 7. Bailey, copied from the
Macon (Ga) Telegraph, in which the said ''Colo.
mel" is declared 10 be well known as "promnenl
and distinguished lawyer of the barr If an utter
disregard oil truth be qualification for a 'lawyer of
The bar his letter proves him amply qualified and
he has certainly shown himself, if his account is to
be believed, an adept al doubling and dodging. He
was really IN personal peril and if be had received
his deserts he would not now be in Georgia, boast
ing OF his halrbreadth Escapes from the lerocious
AbolitOnists.
purpose to correct some of his Measurements
from information obtained on the spot shortly after
The occurrence; from one who attended the examin-
ton oil Coils. Bailey and Mutt and was familiar with
all the facts
Baley's first statement reads thus my ser
want was seduced away from my sick family dur
ing my absence in Canada" Here, if my inorma-
ton correct, are three lies in less than two lines
am sorry TO say she was NOT seduced away, but
owing lear, to neglect on the part Of the abolition
lists OF the place, was Obliged to trust to her own
resources and place herself the mercy of stra ng
ers, not knowing in whom TO put confidence. A
gain, when Of her own accord she left his family
hey were not sick nor was he 10 Canada, but at
tending the Commencement at Norwich VT. the
next town to Hartford, where his family were.
It's true that he ascertained ION his return" (but
not Irom Canada) where she was concealed for his
trend, Col. Mutt of Hartford, pursued after her,
found her in Hartford, and then drove post haste to
Norwich, took Bailey in his wagon, and carried
him to the place where he had left her. 1t is a la
inevitable truth that he 'retook her, and more, that
he bound her, and conveyed her to Baltimore ; but
1t Is not true that he was pursued and his state
ment to That effect is only another illustration of
that Scripture which saith, "The wicked flee when
no man pursueth.'
would here call attention TO the singular fact
mat kidnapped woman was conveyed by single
person, from Vermont, through the States of New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware, to BalG
more, without detection. 1t is proof to my mind,
that the slave holders and kidnappers know some
lhlng about an underground railroad. But if pub
lie opinion was it should be- it would have such
an effect on conductors and steamboat captains, that
something more than the exertions Of "a few faith.
Iul friends would be necessary to accomplish such
a feat.
This southern gentlemen as he calls himself,
though lie Is but a renegade Yankee, prides himself
on the good fellowship and support he received from
certain Democrats, who come in from a distence,
even from New Hampshire,' (which lies lust about
the distance oil twenty rods the width of Connect
cut river from Hartland, where the examination
was had) and 'swore that no southern gentleman
could be treated thus in their State He seems to
set much more value on the sympathy of these swear
ers than on that OF his Wing Presbyterian church
member Of relative who undertook ito vndicate
him to the other members ofhis church but truly
it is hard to decide which was the most appropriate
company for the savehoding kidnapper.
with his dispositions on parties | have nothing
! TO DO; but Will just say, in passing that subject
that it seems odd to hear this new hedged Dem
ocfa (who has only changed his ground because the
Wings stood coldy aloof, while he was kidnapping
a Tree woman) openly avowing that he has been
heretofore linked with a party whose leaders are
nearly all cold Federalist Of the worst school. y
What fine Democratic he must make !-steeped
in odd Federalism and dipped in mixture OF kid
mapping and slayeholdng [ suppose to set the mos
app owed shade Of modern democracy.
l The Verm0ners ought 10 bestir themselves in thi:
matter. Col. Mutt is still within their reach and
IT. as Bailey says, g" was not proven" that the Wo
man said she had run away--that Mutt, at the re
quest Of BaIleys "reatve,' went in pursuit. found
her, and failing 10 induce her TO go back, went tt
Norwich and brought Bailey, who stopped on the
way at his mothers house. and provided himself
at the sametime with small cord and a small trunk
they then went to Hartford, and finding the womar
had been concealed, hired little girl for ten cent?
TO reveal her hiding pace-tled her hands and pac
ed her IN the Wagon between them, and thus drove
to CIaremont, N. H., where they passed the night
This is as far rs he was directly traced, though the
newspapers at Nashua and one or two other place
gave ntmaton of slave having passed through
those places. She was not a slave, but free wo
man-lree by the laws of every State in the Union
the slave States and all.
| | know not but the slur which this rever of the
land Of bis birth, has cast upon the Democratic par
ly, may be deserved by those with whom he asso
ctaed bur am sure it is undeserved by the mass o
all the Inhabitants, of all parties, in the vicinity
, And | am much mistaken in them, if they do moi
in case Mr. Bailey should venture to make his ap
pearance there again, make him feel the penalty 0
those laws he has so atrociously violated,
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