New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-23
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PRO-SLAVERY PERSECUTION IN KEN
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To TIC Editor Of TAs Y. Tribune
SIR: You readers have been apprbed Of second
expulsion OF missionaries teachers and other iaborers
from Kentucky Some additional facts and consdera-
tons may not be inappropriate.
Braekep County the theater Of toe last mob, IL on
the northern border OF the State This is the native
county of ny SELL Bros. Hanson and Grigsop. In TINS
county is one of the most ourisbng free churches in
the State here l had previously abored for several
successive years; here were many OF my relatives;
here was prosperous school, which had been under
the care of AnSavery teachers for some nine or ten
years here too, was one Of the best communities In
Kentucky. neghborng STAKEHOLDER, man of in
elgence and high position in society, said IL Is the
" best neghbcrbood have seen in Kentucky. Its
{" community of industrious, sober upright citizens.
" wish TO Heaven all Kentucky was just Ike It," Ii
was in this community thought l might stay Tor
monhs-at least until passion should subside IN NJ adj
SOD County. think i was not rash or presumptuoue
in thIs choice Soon however meeting was gathered
from Mason, Lewf, and Fleming Counties to drive
out Bro. DAVE. Immediately after this, III town
near by, Mr.. Mallett a young man from New ork,
who had been teaching three years IN the dis
trct referred TO- was mobbed by some sixty or eighty
persons.
Immediately following this was the mob meeting in
Bracken County This meeting was large, ana excited
by The ppeeches of ProSavery lawyers IN hot haste,
resolved ito move myself and others if they had to do
so ''by physical force The meeting was gathering
of citizens from two counties. -
To all this we were not careless lockers on. we
went to prominent citizens, Shareholders and nom
Shareholders reassuIed them that our positions were
peaceful Christian, and legitimate. We said seek
the overthrow of Slavery but not by mobocratlc or
insuIrectoDary means. As saw the tide of oppOsi-
ton increasing, we sought the best legal council This
raid you and your friends may resist but the attempt
under the present Administration is liable to be con-
strued into insurTection. We need different Ad-
mnistTaton.
The same council said You may appeal to the civil
authorities which il your privilege, and right but this
will be of no avail" We applied and found il 80.
Statutes inefficient when mob law reigns.
Several of the civil officers in the mob meeting,
and two or more were in the Committee Of fifty who
came TO warn us to leave. These are perured men;
for they are sworn 10 maintain the Constitution ana
laws of the State and the United States These Con.
sttutions and laws guarantee to each citizen liberty OF
person and of speech
Such officers were opposed to ttls lawlessness,
and disposed to maintain Constitutional rights, felt
that under the present panic, they could not. Refec-
ton and observation may induce reaction among the
people.
Ii was thought by friends that quiet withdrawal
would give an occasion for thus reaction rather tn IAN
tur presence. Also that for the next nine or twelve
months we could do more for the OF freedom and
righteousness by working in the Free States, where the
power is, than IN Slave States. Wise tlctcs are better
Than reckless bravadoes. Some men, not strangers TO
v.
strength and numbt for better day-a day of ult.
mate success.
For some such reasons, we find the Apostles went
away from 1hesalonica and Berea when violent up
roar was created Against them. These we suppose
were wise, and lacked not true courage.
We left not because we hal violated any law. One
of the mob committee said: "Mr Fee, you smart
enough not to violate any law" This referring 10
mobocratic action "is our only means
Nor did we leave for want of interest in the people
or field of labor. Here a spot more dear than any
other on earth 1t the land OF our youthful sports
the home of relations. The people were doubly dear
because of their fidelity to righteous principles IL sea-
of trial. To the school closed, the pulpit va
Gated the land Of cherished hope now overrun with
aWlessness was 70 me of the trat Cf le
To be shut out from my own honse trial, but 1t
war still greater tIia TO be deprived of the privilege
of preaching that land the only gospel that can save
But GOD will take care OF his cause, and make the
wrath of man praise him. We ehall see this.
Some one is ready 70 say, Why did you not fight
We answer, there are times in unpopular reforms
when resistance il not practicable, though a. other
times it may be right. Again, 1t il not unirequently
that more if accomplished for the OF righteous
ness at large by Soldering than by physical resistance
Had Sumner shot Brooks the latter approached
him. the moral effect upon the world, for good wouid
probably have been Loot. BY quietly suffering, tue
II dignaton of the world aroused aganst tue per
nett atore of the crime God speedily cut oil Brooks
and Butler as he has often done with some OF those
who have ass,iiled us. Had we resisted successfully
the North would have said, Well done now !et
others do the sme and then let the slaves rise up and
do likewise let the people OF the South hght IL OUT
is none Of cur business. .
Thus would the North have contented herself with
selfsh naction. No bene0oleHt principle rGald hare
been cnltcoted by patiently and perseyerngly tohmg
for the good of Others Let conduct this struggle
as to develop nation of benevolent workers
The remedy for the wrong-the means 10 De en-
ployed-we reserve for the next. JOHN u fkE
Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 10, 1860