The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-09-05
\ caution to travellers.

The transaction developed in the following
extract from a letter which we find in the New
York Commercial, dated at Newport, r. IL
can hardly fail to be condemned at the North
as severely as with US.
Mrs. Quitman, the wife Of the former Govs
ernor Of Mississippi; aud now a brigadier gene4
raj in the Army Of the United States on service
in Mexico, accompanied by her son. not yelt5
years Of age, and four daughters sill younger,
and attended by a servnnt in whom General
Quitman had unbounded confidence, whom he
entrusted with uncounted moneys, and who
was strongly attached 10 his masters familyI
proceeded from New York by way Of the Long
Island Railroad, from this place, and spent
Saturday and Sunday nights Che III and End
ult,) at the fremont House, Boston.
On leaving fol this place on Monday cven+
ing, the Sd ult., she discovered that this seTa
want, as sllo thinks BY direct force and coercion
but possibly by artifce and persuasion, accom-
panied by gross Misrepresentation, was de-
tached and detained from her service. And is
this the 'requital which New England men rem
der a gallant officer and accomplished gentle-
man for p%erilling his life in the service Of his
cOuntry2
The gentleman who communicated the above
intelligence to the Commercial enters an indig4
nant protest against the fragrant inhosPitalIty
Of such an act. He concludes:
It is al least due, not less % national hospi'
tality than to common Justice, to bear an ems
phatic testimony against this cruel outrage
committed upon a meritoiiOus and accomplish
ed lady, the wife Of a gallant officer, who il
~perilling his life for his country, and to invoke
sympathy in favor Of a female so peculiarly
circumstanced. If it will have no other eff
feet, it will at least put Southern travellers ups
on their guard against such an exercise Of New
England hospitality to the defencelesS and un-
protected stranger.
In a Baltimore paper we find an incident rec
T lated touching the interference Of Northern
fanatics with Southern servant, which had =
o more natural issue. Il appears that Q. J.
Faulkner, Esq, and family, Of Virginia, wers
d at the Springs, Bedford, Pa, with a female SER
> want, a few days since. AS soon as it was
known that she was a slave, the abolitioniSts
set to work to induce her to make her escapes
for which they had furnished the necessary
means. After much persuasion for some days,
or rather nights, she was induced to depart
when she was conducted to a settlement about
ten miles off. As soon as she began TO realize
her new position, instead Of being satisfied
with it, she resolutely determined to return q
her mistress, which she did in opposition to thu
ID strongest entreaty Of her new friends. On he
arrival at the Springs, she %implorsd forgiveness
of for her conduct which was readily granted
At Mr.. F. then ofForedh her her freedom, and none.
ID to go where she pleased, which she refused
v. saying she wanted no other home than the
as which she already had. The next day Mr.. J
and family left for their home in Virginia, witt
Of the female servant in attendance upon tn
v. children, as gay us a lark, rejoicing in her e'
in cape from her new to her old fr~iends.-jatae
ty Courier.