Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03
Correspondence Of the Detroit Advertiser.
Michigan Man Driven from 0eorgia-Frse
Speech Crushed Out.
Vermontville, Mich. Dec. 1856.

Vermontville, Mich. Dec. 1856.
Under date of August 10, 1856, Mr.. Moses g.
Church, formerly resident of this place, where
his parents now live, but then being in employ OF
his uncle Harvey Hall, in Columbus, Georgia,
wrote letter to his father which contained the
following paragraph:
"Politics Just now, are all the 60 herein fact,
never saw community SO given up to it in all
my life. We have only two tickets, Fillmore and
Buchanan, though if there was q little more
concert of action, it would not be hard to get up
a Fremont ticket, and though there would be
no chance of carrying the State, he would get
more votes than many suppose"
"Another four years will see great changes
throughout the entire South. All this talk about
dissolving the Union, if Fremont is elected, is
nothing but SO much gas. The working, non
slaveholdng mechanics, and others who are De.
pendent upon their daily labor for support, feel
sorely the competition of non-paid labor, and
they do not hesitate to say that they would vote
for Fremont, if they had a chance. AS voters,
they are three to one of the shareholders, and
they are fast finding out their strength. Think
ing, sober men, here acknowledge that they
already see the beginning Of the end, and one
remarked to me only last week, that in his opin-
ion, ten years from that day would not see
slave in America. So strong is his belief, that
he has disposed of all of his property of that
kind, and does not intend to own any more. 1t
is a current remark here among the working clas-
ses, that for the FUTURE those who own slaves and
have the benefit of them, may do their own
watching-they will not. l claim to know what
say, as we employ good many hands, and l
know what they say"
This paragraph was published in the Eaton
County Republican, and some person, actuated
either by mean, low-lived spirit of mischief,
or deep-seated Internal malignity, enclosed a
half-sheet of the paper in an envelope, and for
dad 20 M, Hall d. -
MIR. Hall repaired, in hot haste, and fiery indig-
nation, to the boarding place of his nephew, to
pour out the vial of red-hot wrath upon his head.
MIR. Church unhesitatngly informed his uncle,
that he wrote the paragraph, and that it contain
ed his honest convictions, though he did not in
the least seek to promulgate them at the South.
Mr.. Hall then told him that if these were his con-
victions he could not entertain them at the South
and that he felt it to be his duty to rid the COM
unity Of his presence. He also threatened him
with personal violence unless he speedily left the
country. This was on Saturday. Mr.. Hall ad-
ded further, that he must leave the first part of
the next week, and if he concluded to do so, he
need have no apprehensions of personal violence,
as he (HalD was the only one that knew of the
letter, and no measures would be taken to for
chilly expel him until he should report in the mat
ter. There were two other members of the firm
which employed MIR. Church, On consulting
with them though they wished his services, yet
they told him he had better leave, for his uncle
would surely carry his threat into execution if he
did not, and the result would be riot and blood
shed. Mr.. Church saw that if he undertook to
remain his life would be endangered, and his
wife and young child left to the tender mercies
of Georgia mob, and all heathendom, except
Missouri, could not have furnished one more
blood thirsty, reckless and unprincipled. WISE
ly, then, he concluded to leave; and, arranging
his business as best he could, though at sacri-
ice OF four or five hundred dollars, did so on the
next Wednesday.
Mr.. Hall is a native of Vermont. He emigra-
ted to Georgia. There he acquired wealth and
slaves property in the souls of men-and has
become what he is. At his solicitation, his ne
phew left a lucrative situation in New York city
to enter his employ, and for writing the above pa
ragraph to his father, he is threatened with
''personal violence" at the hands of the slave
driving interest of one of the cities Of our con-
fedsrate republics, unless he speedily leaves