St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
The Freedom Of Slavery !

A school-teacher who went from
Connecticut to Helena, Miss, some
time since, was drawn into contro-
versy the other day in that Southern
village, and ventilated his views on
the slavery subject rather freely. He
was tarred and feathcred and rode on
a rail, and then sent adrift on log
down the Mississippi.
The chivalry Of South Carolina dis
played her prowess short time since
by Selling Northern man at BAN.
berg for being too free in the express
sion Of his opinions, had his head
shaved ON one side and a coat of tar
and feathers applied to him he was
then ridden on rail beyond the limits
of the village.
DR.. Breed, an honest and esteemed
Quaker gentleman, was arrested and
held for trial at the National Capital,
for speaking his opinions in private
conversation.
Not long since, thirty-six persons
were driven from Kentucky for no
other reason than being opposed to
slavery, and the Governor said he was
powerless to protect them
From Alabama we have intelligence
Of case Of tar and feathering. which
is both serious and comical. Two
Italian organ-grinders, who could
scarcely speak a word of English,
made their way from Mobile into the
interior Of the State, to earn a livel-
hood by itinerating with their poor
tunes. After playing in bar.room
in small town, and gathering all the
pennies which Southern generosity
was likely to bcstow upon such enter
tainment, they asked to be directed to
the next town. Whercupon a wag
took a piece of paper, and under pre-
tence of writing down the necessary
direction, gave the poor men a fatal
letter, somewhat as follows
/ To the h-noariag Ones
Pass my Italian friends All right. Mum S
! the word.
(SignetD john Brown, of Ossawatomie
The music pcddlcrs, on reaching the
next town, faint and weary with the
weight Of their organs on their backs,
went Immediately to tavern, and
unwittingly presented their letter of
recommendation They were at once
taken by the whisky drinkers, strip
ped, threatened until they were terri
! fled out of their wits, tarred and fcath-
cred, and ridden out of town on rail,
Such is Southern chivalry
Deacon Reuben Salisbury, formerly
of Sandy Creek, in New York, one of
the best and most inOficnsive men,
purchased a farm in Virginia some
years ago and moved there. At a
prayer meeting which he attended
soon after he got there, he prayed that
masters would treat their slaves kind
ly. Next morning he was waited up
on by some of his kind neighbors and
informed that he must not pray in
that manner in Virginia.
Soon after John Brown took the
State of Virginia and the United
States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, with
the consent of Secretary Floyd, Dea-
con Salisbury was found with an AL
bany Weekly Journal in his pocket,
sent to him by his brother. That was
proof enough that he was one of John
Browns men, as high as Colonel or
Captain. He was waited on by four
teen armed men, and marched to Jail.
They had unmistakable evidence in
his pocket. He was finally ordered
to leave the State, and did so to save
his life.
Rev. Daniel Worth, travelling agent
of the American Missionary Associa-
ton, now lies in prison at Greensboro,
N. c., for the crime of selling Helpers
Impending Crisis and other publ
cations.
A short time ago, some brutal SOL
diers entered and sacked the house of
John C. Underwood, of Clarke county,
Va, and in attempting to defend her.
self and daughters, Mrs. Fcltner, wife
of tenant of Mr.. Underwood, was
wounded by bayonet! She is a
member of the Methodist church, and
the mother of fourteen living children.
James Power, an 1rishman of Dem
ocratic sentiments, and workman on
the State House in Columbia, s. c.,
1--WE copy from the Dubuque Tines
was recently whipped, and tarred and
feathcred, and sent out of the State,
because he held the opinion that slave
~ caused white laborer in the South
to be looked upon as an inferior and
degraded man. This, he declares, is
all the opinion lie has ever expressed
Of the subject Of unrequited labor.
Mr.. Power is o native Of Wexford,
and stone-cuttcr by trade. At the
Democratic South he thought he
conld use little freedom of tongue,
and for expressing the sentiment men-
toned above he was seized put in IA
cell where he remained three days,
without being permitted to use pen
or in any way communicate with his
friends was taken out and examined,
and proved, by four witnesses, to have
been guilty of uttering the sentiments
which we have already intilnated, and
nothing more was led through the