Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-12-12
Letter from Mr. Kuisht.

"S NA"Goh. OcOTSid, JONrnal and NleS.
senger, publishes letter from Mr. John
Knight, who accompanied Mr. Hughes on
ms VISIT TO this city for the recovery OF
William and Ellen Graft in Which he gives
an account Of the principal occurrences in
this city, relating to that transaction. He
pr"no"nces the statements which have
been copied from the Chnonoiype and 9th
er abolition prints, gross mi>rrpresen,a-
ii"ns. Tie says that he and Mr. Hughes
lett Macon on other business, and he did
not know that the latter was entrusted
with the recovery OF the slaves until they
| ief New York. He says that he saw
Graft and had IA long conversation with
| him. and that Craft told him th., Ellen was
anxious 10 return to the South, and would
d" 50 IT she could ge, funds and an oppor-
tnnlty. and desired him to take letter TO
t''len's mother. He says that he wrote
no letter to Craft, and that that which was
published was forgery. He denies ,ha,
the negroes and others who assembled in
! great numbers in Court street were armed,
and that they made anv threats of violence.
! Knight says that the marshal "seemed
t'mld and inclined to back ou,;' and said
''ii he could be convinced that Craft was
in Cambridge street, he would 60 and ar
rest him The commissioners (appoint.
ed by Judge Woodbury. were in :he first
instance, reluctant to issue the warrant.-
Hughes and Knight were first arrested
for slander scaling Craft slave" Of
their second arrest Knight says:
! CIV. mnrx,
of attempting to kidnap Graft and wife
carried I" Court Square, Deputy Corbin's
"tice-tw +" Thousand persons present.
One thousand five hundred negroes and
five hundred whites of the lowest order.
Gave bonds in ten thousand dollars each,
signed by Messrs Riley, Willis and 9TH
ers, hel'eve-crowd in the Office very
great-officer sen, for carriage Office
I" go int" it. Mr. Hughes got in. The
crowd rushed upon it, so ,ha, could not
reach h-ihey Kissed tbs, called us blood
hounds Nc. apparently for the purpose of
| exciting MS TO some act Of violence-so,ne
OF them seized upon the horses and at
tempted TO open The doors-Mr H, who
was in the carriage. laughed at them, and
made sport OF them" .
The m"h, which pursued Messrs Knish,
and Hughes, were composed. i, is sail, Of
some fifteen hundred negroes and five hum
dred "whites Of the lowest order" They
hissed and called names. aud pulled al Mr.
knights coat tail, but offered no personal
harm--they used no weapons they did
nothing which would have justified the
municipal authorities in ordering out the
military. Other warrants having been is-
sued against Hughes and Knight. for "slan-
dering Ellen Craft and injnriny her bu>i-
ness" they gave bond, each. for $40. 900
q, the hotel, Me>srs Riley, Thayer & co,
Willis aud rstLess sissine Cor them. The
| following j. an account OF friendly call
made by the Rev. Theodore Parker:
Wednesday. Very early Rev. Theo-
dore Parker came to our room followed
by fifty "r sixty persons, greatly excited;
said he had suppressed a mob twice
! came as chris,ian-ss "a servant of the
Lord and a friend, to request us TO ienre
the CITY insianHy--not to wait for the cars,
but TO take carriage not think he
could suppress the mob any longer! We
refased--told him that we should treat
their committee with perfect contempt
would leave when the NIB dispersed and
our convenience suited, but not before.
| During the day passed freely abon, the
c'ty--all was quiet. lnthe evening came
to New York by advise of counsel, in or
der TO get further instructions, and TO al
low the excitement to die away. During
this time Graft and wife were reported TO
us I" be locked up in the house OF white
man. whose name forgot"
The follow ing are Mr. Knights specu.
ia'io"s with regard to the tendency Of pub.
lie opinion in Boston:
"From all saw and hearl. and expe-
rienced while in Boston, ! am convinced
that public "pinion there, in regard to the
Fugitive Slave Law, is undergoing a
change. | is trne, the Aboli,ionis,s and
negroes are very numerous and apparent
" have things their own way at present.
The business men, and men Of property
with whom | conver>ed generally took bu,
little interest in the matter; but said that
the law ought I" b- executed; that they
wished TO get rid of,he negroes, and that
II II came To trial Of strength. the ne
groes and aboli'ioni>ts would he put down.
This however, will take time. believe
Mr. Hughes will ultimately succeed in
getting the negroes"
With regard to the conduct ofthe U. S.
Marshal in this affair, the Washington Re.
public says: "lt was tho Marshal alone,
If any one, who was in the fault; an,: we
doubt not that the conduct Of the marshal
admits OF satisfactory explanation. II the
parties have suffered through his neg!ec,
of duty, they have their remedy hy action;
and il any snch neglrc, should be made ap-
parent to the executive by competent tes-
timony, and " iih something in the nature,
a, least Of Judicial proof.we have no doub,
that prompt corrective would be appli-
ed.- Boston Transcript.
( The Lowell, Mass, Courier publishes
table Of statistics, showing the numbe,
Of hands discharged from :he various