The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-04-01
MORE ABOLITION DEVELOP.
MFNTS.

We stated in our last issue IN fact which
we had learned from several Of our exchan-
res) that n lady had been lc:.uring in va
rious parts Of the State upon the subject
of "Woman's Rights" From n conmuni
cation addressed by n Committee, TO the
lntendant and Council of the Town Of Sum-
ter, and published in the Sumter Waterman,
it. appears that she mad other objects in view,
inside from that Of cnlightening the people
Of the South upon the natural rights and
privileges of her sex. She is called a Mrs.
Emerson. She delivered a lecture in Sum
ter, and the lecture itself, and her conduct
generally, while there, was such rs TO in.
duce the good people of that place, TO be-
lievo that all was not right with her. Her
manner is represented rs having Leen unwo-
mnnly-immodest, and she openly advocated
doctrines repugnant to the feelings Of a
Southern mind, and to a refined sensibiliiy.
Her manner of travelling vas Strangely
private conveyance and alone-nnd taking
With her an undue all of baggage
These circumstances very justly excited the
suspicious Of the people of Sumter, and il
was determined, that a committee be ap-
pointed TO investigate the character and fs-
signs of the said Mrs. Emerson. The re-
suit of their search among her effects, is
stated in tho following extract from the re-
port OF the committee:
Finding there was no way in which she
could avoid an investigation, she ut length,
consented TO n search. Accordingly the
Committee followed her TO her Hotel, where,
upon an examination of her effects, they
found matter which fully corroboraied their
worst suspicious. Upon inspection of her
papers, they ca me 10 the conclusion that
she was Il plilanthropist Of the Madame
Beecher Stowe order AID that her mission
among MS, if tor no worse purpose. was to
collect material for a work similar TO Uncle
Toms Cabin.
A list of her correspondents was discover.
ed, which embraced residents Of almost eve
nv State north of Mrson's g. Dixon's Line
most of them, indeed, appeared to live in
Ohio-the yeyy hot bed OF abolitiODism, and
she, herself, was proved TO be from Cincin-
natti, after having snid in the early part of
the evening that she WAS from Virginia.!
Among extracts cut from various papers
and found in her possession, "ere accounts
Of negroes being burned-insurrcctions-ef.
fccts Of negro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
an individual wishing 10 purchase a likely
Young negro woman, &c. One Of the Com
mitteo certified that he saw her extract n
letter from an envelope and secrete it. She
bitterly desicd the truth of this assertion,
but at any rate, The envelope was found
empty, addressed TO some one in Massachu-
sets.
The Committee (wet and wearied, having
been cought in a shower, while going from
the lecture room TO the hotcl) convinced OF
her guilt from the partial examination they
had made, did not think IL necessary TO 60
through all her baggage.
Before the Committee was discharged q
motion was made to sci; her conveyance and
o Their things belonging to her-give her the
proceeds and send heJ and her remaining ef'
iecte back to the North, 10y the public con.
veyance as speedily as possible; but more
moderate counsels prevailed, and " was re-
solved TO report the proceedings and dis
cove RES Of the Committee 10 the town
Council. which, after due dell beration, might
act rs seemed most becoming, and also, that
there should be n publication OF the trans.
actions in the Sumter Waterman, Sc that
the people Of the district, State and country
at large, might be put upon their guard.
The COMMITTEE beg leave to state, that