Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-07-31

and he seemed so very Ignorant about the negroes
that they could get no information from him.
Thus foiled they returned to vent their rage,
in the slave catcher's dialect, upon the abolition
lists, whom they regarded as the sole cause of
their defeat. They now threw off all disguise,
and openly declared their object and that they
would have the negroes if they had to follow
them and their abolition friends to the neither pit
They said they would like to get one id alb
oltionist down south, to make an example Of
and exulted that our beloved Torrey was in their
power. On Wednesday they took leave, most Of
them for the South, via WilIamsport, Pa, where
they expected to find some fugitiyes We feel
very much obliged to them for their visit, for
they have proved the most elIectual anti-slavery
lectures that we have ever had, They have
awakened sympathy for the slave in hearts that
have been proof against every other appeal, and
called into vigorous action the dormant energies
of friends, and that not in few isolated cases,
but generally throughout our community, This
feeling has spread like wild fire through other
parts Of the country. The men of most innu-
ence in this village have, in this affair, shown a
regard for suffering humanity that docs honor to
them
As it was ascertained that one of the men
hunters had gone to Geneva to watch our oper-
atoms, and that ling Of spies had been estab-
lished in several directions, it was thought best
to help those, whom they had tried to arrest, to
Canada. On Thursday evening two men were
sent to Big Flat to conduct three of the men to
the place of rendezvous, and the other five who
were secreted in this vicinity, we're committed to
the chnrge of. P Thompson and Geo. Wash
ngton (colored men, who had been engaged to
pilot them to Canada notwithstanding each
party had to travel a distance of seven miles
through the woods, &c, they were both at the
place Of meeting within fifteen minutes of the
appointed time, midnight. A number of the
friends of the slave were there to meet them
After distributing among them some articles
Of clothing, and S27 for their expenses by the
way, which added to what they already had, a
mounted to more than $40, and reading to them
the advertisement, when six out Of the eight an
swered to their real names, (the other two having
come from Virginia. we kuceed down by the
way side under Heavens broad canopy, and in
season of prayer commended them to the God
of the oppressed. Never did witness scene
| like this. We felt that VIC were in the presence
of prayer hearing God, and that he listened to
our request 1t was indeed good to be there.
As we took our brethren by the hand, and babe
them an ahcctionate farewell tears of gratitude,
sorrow and shame, flowed freely; gratitude to cur
heavenly Father who had smiled on our efforts to
" rid the spoiled" out Of the hands Of the spoiler
sorrow, that these unfortunate fellow creatures
must leave the SANCTUARY Sabbath school and
other means of mental and moral culture, and
the friends they had gained by their good deport-
ment, to seek an abode in a land of strangers
and shame that we could shield the native born
Americans from the internal grasp ofpirate laws
of this boosted republic, only by sending them a.
way, at dead of night, to the land where monar
chcal British law would throw around them the
ngis of its protection.
Yours for the cnsIayed, TRUTu