Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-19
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The following extract of letter to the Bos-s.
ton Traveller, dated Norfolk, June 12th. will
| be read with interest, on more accounts than
one. The indication it gives of strong anti
slavery sentiment in Virginia affords cheering
/. evidence of Frightening future:-
Yesterday gentlemen of this city called
| on me, and when abiding to the case Of Burns
inquired if 1 would liketo see him. On my
answering in the affirmative, he said he would
| walk over to the jail, and as he was well ac-
| quainted with the jailer, he presumed we
might be admitted to his cell. was intro
duced as ga Boston Merchant and was
politely conducted to the private apartment Of
The fugitive, where in the presence Of four
other gentlemen, conversed with him for
half an hour relative to his early history, his
escape, his trial in Boston and his RETURN
His history is too familiar to your readers to
require additional statements. lie said he
Joined the Baptist church about seven years
ago, and has felt it his duty since, as oppor-
tnnities have occurred to exhort in their
meetings, and try to lead his fellow servants to
knowledge of the Redeemer. His master,
he told me, was not member of any church.
He can read and write and is quite intelli-
gent for one of such limited education. He
has nobleness Of carriage and truthfnlness
of manner, indicative of a mind of more than
ordinary capacity. Although he convefsed
with an air OF cheerfuhess, and even Of hui
NOR, it was easy to discover that dark fore
boding for the future was preying upou his
spirits. When alluson was made to his &C
commodations in the Boston Court House, his
! good fare, aud his smoking cigars with the
officers, he said laughingly, that 'the needed
the cigar to keep his spirits up;'' aud wheu
asked ii he wanted to go back to Boston, he
eal tha SbOuld like to of fhann cpn
that he was alive YET" To the question
what he thought his master would now
do with him, he said that " he expected
to be sold, and to be made lion of. -
When asked if he would like to go back and
live with Col. Suttle, he hesitatetI. and replied,
" not without he could be treated just if he
had not been away" He was sensible that
he had lost caste where he had always lived
and knew not how to hold up his head again
there; and yet greatly dreaded the alterna-
tiyeof being sold to the South. Poor fellow!
He reminded me of Christian, in the Pilgrims
Progress, when he had neither the power to
flee, nor the heart to go forward to the en-
counter.
| have conversed very freely about his case
with many persons here; indeed, it is quite
impossible to do otherwise, as it is the topic Of
the day. There is general exultation at the
result. for Geo. r. Latimer escaped from Nor
folk in 1919, and great effort was made to
recover him from Boston, which failed. as did
also more recent effort to bring back the
slave Shadrach who belonged to a Norfolk
gentleman. But, now that the law has been
sustained, think there is strong feeling here
i'll favor of selding him north, or CT dealing
kindly with him. One of the gentlemen who
was present during my Interview with Burns.
and whom did not know, was severely CEN
surfing the course Of the abolitionists when
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