Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-09

servatiye portion of the company present
"All those, then,'' said Jones, who are IN
favor of proceeding to the spot where Waldo Is
confined, seizng and lynching him, will manifest
it by saying aye"
Aye! came in shout from nearly every
person in the room.
In an instant, the room was deserted. save
| by five or six, who would take no part IN the
proceedings and with oaths and cries of" death
to the nigger- worshipper " the infuriaed rab
| BILE rushed to the house where Waldo was con-
fined.
I" Now 4 boys. look out for same fun = OK
claimed Jones, as followed by Col. Jacobs, he
rushed into the house.
" That's it, Jones' bring him out, and we'll
show him the road to Heaven mighty sight
quicker than it took old Parson B to show
it to us over in Missouri last Sunday"
'' Didn't the parson say that Abotionists
went in an opposite drection!"
No, but I'm going to have that an esab-
lished article in our creed that no one who goes
against Slavery gets an inside view of rara
disc h."
Agreed. 60 in for that creed"
g Clear the road there, so we can all get u
sight of the sneaking coward, when they bring
him out. III give the best slave I've got to have
the first chance to pull the rope after it is about
his neck.
" We won't have any monopoly about that
Maitland. Theresa dozen here ready to make
the same ofer. The only true way to do the
thing is to all have hold, and then, when the
word is given, we'll send him few feet nearer
Heaven than he II ever be likely to get again.
"Why don't Jones and the Col. come out
They've been gone long enough 10 ransack TIN
whole house,
At this moment, Jones, followed by Col. ia
cobs, burst into the crowd with the exclamation
Of
Boys, he is gone, as sure as tates
1" You don't mean he's escaped ! " shoueC
the crowd, dsmayed at the prospect of osin!
their victim.
IL do though
" Then let US hunt him up" /.
A dozen men started in the execution of thi
suggestion.
How did this happen " asked Maitland
approaching Col. Jacobs
=" cannot tell you. There is a window oper
at the back Of the house ; but he could not have
got out there, for it's forty feet to the ground
Is" But.he might have had rope.''
mo. took pains to have him searched
before Jones put him in there and everything
in the room offering the least chance for his es
cape, removed"
See here moment" exclaimed one of tn
men, approaching Col. Jacobs.
They repaired to the rear of the house, an
lying upon the ground, so close to the buildn
that they had not before been observed, wer
the two sentncls, apparently ifeless.
That explains it all. He got out at tha
window"
Who furnished him the means -
Jones, said Col Jacobs without replyin
to Maitand's question, " did you see anythin
of that boy when you came out OF the meetin
+, to night! "
"No. The last time | saw him he was sour
asleep; but when came out of the house
WASH t there
:" Then we've been sold."
"Sold Howl"
3" That Internal idiot was in there to find o,
what we were about, and the consequence
;, Waldo has escaped"
9 Just as told you. He wasn't SO confoun
:, ed green as he pretended to be, and if he didn
tell who he was it wasn't because he did n
:, know. Oh wish had the little imp he
now. I'd straighten the hump in his back
quick he wouldn't know it. Outwitted by
y boy 1t will sound ell through the Territor
won't it I"
- When the sentines come to, perhaps tn
can explain it. They have carried them over
the tavern to try and restore them
The party who had departed in search
Waldo, now came up and reported that no tt
ces of him could be found.
i There's no use in crying over what can't
a helped ; so let Us adjourn to the tavern for
n drink, and when we get hold Of him aga
string him up while he is in our power"
After indulgng freely, the company dispers,
is The senlinels were restored to consciousne
n but could not, or would not, give any accou
10 to afford clue to the manner in which Wal
er had escaped
en- The occurrence affected Maitland deep
"a With Waldo mt large he had everything to fc
IS, lie might at any time reveal the part he /
,e, acted in the Territory TO the family of {
i'm Montague, and thus forever blast his prospe
I'M in that direction. He regarded Waldo as
ed ready beyond the power to harm him when
de heard of his captuta put the result shov
IN that human calculations sometimes fail