Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-08
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.Correspondence of the Detroit Advertiser
Michigan Man Driyen from
GeOrgia--Free Speech Crushed
Out.
VERMoNTvILLE, Mich, Dec. 1856.
2 Under date of August 10, Moses C.
Church, formerly resident of this place,
where his parents now. live, but then in the
employ Of his uncle, Harvey Hall, in Co
lumbia, Georgia, wrote letter to his faith
ers Ehich contained the following para
graph; % ,.. :, ss II
in fact l never saw community so wholly
given up to it in my life. We have only
two tickets, Fillmore and Buchanan, though
if there was a little more courage and a
little more concert of action, it would not
be hard to get up a Fremont ticket, and
though there would be no chance of his
carrying the State, he could 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-slaveholding me
chanics, and others who are dependent up
on their daily labor for their support, feel
sorely the competition of non-paid labor,
and they do not hesitate to say they would
vote for Fremont if they had chance
AS voters, they are three to one of
the shareholders, and they are fast find
ing out their strength. Thinking, sober
men here, acknowledge that they already
see the beginning of the end, and one re
marked to me only last week, that in his
opinion ten years from that day would not
see slave in America. So strong is his
belief that he has disposed of all his pro-
perty Of that kind, and does not intend to
own any more. 1t is a current remark here
among the working classes that for the fu-
ture those who own slaves, and have the
benefit of them, may do their own watch
ing, they will not. l claim to know what l
say, as we employ good many hands,
and | know what they say"
This paragraph was published in the Ea
ton County Republican, and some person,
actuated either by mean, low-ived spirit
of mischief or deep-seated, internal ma
lignity, enclosed a halfsheet- of the paper
in an Envelope and forwarded it to Mr.
Harvey Hall On receiving it, Mr.. Hall
repaired, in hot haste, and full of fiery in
dignation, to the boarding place of his
nephew, to pour out the vial of his red-hot
wrath upon his head. Mr.. Church unhes-
itatingly informed bis uncle that he wrote
the paragraph, and that it contained his
honest convictions, though he did not in
tend in the least to promulga them Al
the South. Mr.. Hall then told him that
if these were bis sentiments he could not
entertain them at the South, and he felt it
to be his duty to rid the community of his
presence. He also threatened him with
personal violence unless he speedily left
the country. 7a.-.-.s
This was on Saturday. Mr. Hall added
further, that he must leave the first part of
next week, and if he concluded to do so,
he. need have no apprehension of personal
violence, as he Hall was the only one
that knew of the letter, and no measures
would be taken to forcibly expel him until
he should report in the matter. There
were two other members of the firm which
employed Mr.. Church. On consulting
with them, though they wished his servi-
ces, 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 a
Georgia mob, and all heathendom, except
Missouri, could not have furnished one more
blood-thirsty, reckless and unprincipled.-
Wisely, then, he concluded to leave; and,
arranging his business as best he could
though at a sacrifice of four or five hundred,
dollars, did so on the next Wednesday