Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-04-10

The CHlvALRY OF SOUTu CAROLINA A
Mrs. Emerson, designing to destroy the
South, has lately been lecturing in yariou.
localities in South Carolina. The Columbia
Times man suspected her, the instant
she appeared, but waited for something
to turn up'-and it has turned up with d
vengeance. The lady has had her mask
torn off in Sumter. In that place she tried
| to lecture, but the people wouldn't hear
her. They shut her mouth, and then search.
ed her baggage. \ Committee Olinvestiga
ton was appointed, and the Secretary, Mr.
Charles Wesly Wolfe, gives a touching mar.
rative of the result Of the Committee :
reading o! Mrs Emersons private letters
| their investigations concerning her method
| Of travelling, and the discovery that she
! bold reasonable correspondence with
people living north of Mason ana Dixon
line. This report is very spicy, though tn,
Secretary intended to be serious. We COPY
q little of it
- The Committee as soon rs the lecture
or rather TRADE against Southern ladies had
been concluded, and the other performance
OF examining heads commenced, informed
| Mrs. Emerson Of the injurious reports in
| circulation concerning her and demanded "A
an act OF justice both 10 herseltGf innocenD
! and our quiet community, she should state
anu PROVE her reasons for coming among US,
and acting in such an anomalous manner
Her unwOmauly mode Of acting. worthy
| Of the most abandoned of her sex, showed
berselt no unfit instrument for the ac-
cOmrli>hment Of any neiari0us scheme Or
mission entrusted to her
Moreover, she came in strange manner,
no one with her, by private conveyance
carrying with her a lantern and side saddle
| In conclusion tho l'R1nntttna -,
full manner asked that she would allow
them to search her baggage, remarking
that ii she were really guilty, the commu-
NIFTY ought to know it but, il, on the other
hand, she were innocent, it was important
that 1t should be made apparent,
Finding there was no way in which she
could avoid an investigation, she at length.
consented to the search Accordingly the
Committee followed her to her Hotel where.
upon an examination Of her effects, they
found matter which fully corroborated their
worst suspicious. Upon inspection of her
papers, they came to the conclusion that
she was II phianthrorist Of the Madam
Beecher Stowe order, and that her mission
among us, if for no worse purpose, was to
collect materials for work similar to
Uncle Toms Cabin.
One of the Committee certified that he
saw her extract a letter from an envelope
and secrete it. She bitterly denied the
truth OF this assertion, but at any rate. the
envelope was found empty, addressed to
some one in Massachusetts,
The Committee (wet and wearied. having
been caught in shower, while gong from
the lecture-room to the hotel y convinced OF
her'eIiIt from the partial examination they
had made, did not think it necessary to 20
through all her baggage.
The Committee beg leave to state, that
they acted;as gently and respectfully as they
possibly could under the circumstances
But though woman, she has put herself
out OF the pale Of woman's privileges, and
deserves no respectful consideration
Acting upon the hint in the last para
graph the Carolina Times proposes to tar
and feather Mrs, Emerson and does it in
the most delicate manner.
Her mascuiLc department affords lust
ground for suspccting that Mrs. Emerson
Is not all, but great deal more than she
appears to be. II she will only pay us a
visit in Columbia, we promise she shall he
treated with all the honors due to her real
sex and designs and We trust that this
strong minded woman may not take her
final departure from our State till this is
lone.