Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-22
From the New York Post.
From the New York Post.
Mr.. UnderWOOd's Banishment
from Virginia.

recently to Virginia, and remained with
him for few days has been handed TO us
for publication. 1t discloses melancholy
condition of society in Virginia, and gives
the conclusion of one of the most shame
full cases of political prescription that We
have ever heard of under any government.
For simply avowing in the Philadelphia
Convention, sentiments professed by Wash
ington and Jefferson, he has been driven
from his home, compelled to sacrifice his
property at great loss, and at an age
when he was entitled to repose which the
fruits of long life of industry ought to
have secured him, he finds himself sudden
ly banished from home and friends,
and forced to begin life almost penniless in
comparatively strange land. His fateis a
hard one, and it should bring blush upon
the cheek of every American who has in
any way contributed, directly or indirectly,
towards the inhuman outrage.
Sale of his property at Auction-Threat-
ened By the Vigilance ConamiHee-
,Saved by Delirium 1'remens.
PARIS, Va, Jan. l, 1851.
WIN. K. SrRoNe, Esa.-My Dear Sir:
In reply to your kind inquiries, l will try
to give you few incidents of my exper-
fence since returned to the Old Diminion.
l found here new and strange state of
things. had no conception of the cordial
ity with which my tenants and most of my
neighbors would greet me. Indeed, such
was the rush to my house, and so anxious
were they to hear and learn all the circum-
stances connected with my long absence
from home that 1 found my time very much
occupied by them, and my progress in ar
ranging my long-neglected business was
consequently much impeded. Nor could
l prevent inquiries from another class, who
it seems, had become deeply interested in
the subject of politics. This class had,
from the mutual examinations and recrim-
nations of the Buchanan and Fillmore Or
ators during the late campaign, indulged
the hope that great party, with which
they supposed me connected, had been Or
ganized in the country for their deliverance
from slavery. Notwithstanding my hatred
of every species of human oppression, and
the light confidence I entertain that so
great cancer as slavery can ever be eradi-
Gated from the body polite without the
efusion of some blood, so great is my hor-
ror Of all violence, and my hope of anchor
alton by the diffusion of knowledge and
of Christian patience and forbearance
among men, that l spared no pains in urg-
ing those "under the yoke" to submit to
the power which they have now no means
of successfully resisting. And if my i'm
mediate neighborhood shall be spared the
horrors and the distressing anxieties which
have murdered sleep" in so many of the
wealthy families of Virginia and other south
ern States during the holidays, l shall
have the vanity to believe my advice had
more influence than the armed patrols, which
we see on every hand, in restraining that
violence which was ready to burst here, as
it has in other portions of the country.
Consultation with friends after my re-
turn, soon satisfied me that disturbances
would probably result from the intense anx-
iety which was everywhere discoverable
among the slave population, and that my
life, to say the least, would be exceedingly
insecure in the event of an outbreak in my
vicinity; for it would be as easy in the
mad whirlwind of passion and excitement
to implicate me, as it was the Salem vic
tim in the charge of witchcraft. l, there
fore, early in last month, posted handbills
Throughout the neighborhood, advertising
my perishable property for sale on Monday,
the 29th day Of December. then rented
my lands and tenements to nine of my old
friends, who seemed willing to take them,
and on the eve of the day of sale I found
that a notice, originally published in my
own county paper, had been extensively
published in other papers circulating in the
vicinity, indicating that the sale was to be
the day after the fair. The notice was as
follows:
"John G. Underwood, the Virginia Ex-
ile,' has returned to our county, and we no
tice offers his entire personality at public
sale, on Tuesday the aOth inst.-Berry-
vilze { CLARK County, Gazette"
I endeavored to be charitable enough to
believe that the error was the result of
mistake, but was assured by slayeholding
friend that it was published with the design
of misleading and preventing persons from
attending the sale to buy my property.
The sale, however, took place on Monday
last, at no greater sacrifice than could have
been expected under all the circumstances.
AS some indication however of the ex-
citement, give you some extracts from
letter received the day before the sale, by
my wife, written by one from whom for
more than twenty years we have both re-
ceived many and frequent evidences Of
friendship:
SATURDAY, Dec. 27, 1856.
"My Dear Maria Il scarcely know which
to write to, yourself or Mr.. Underwood, to
endeavor once more to bring to your minds
the real state of public feeling against Mr..
Underwood-the feeling is one Of intense
and proper resentment against any man
who advocates as Mr.. Underwood does,
and uses all means to propagate his prin
ciples in a slave State; but of all this, it is
only necessary to say at this time that the
people will not much longer tolerate his
presence in this country-for since the ne
gro disturbance, l do assure you that he is
in danger of the very worst treatment,
(which will, little as he appears to believe
it, brush over his head most unexpectedly,
if he does not leave the country quickly.)
And is the feeling not right, when he and
his party have done everything in their