Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-13
Southern Outrages on Northern
Citizens.

Southern Outrages on Northern
Citizens.
The question may well be asked, of what
value is the southern part of this Union
TO the citizens of the free States? Our
people may travel on business or pleasure,
in France, England, or in fact, almost any
foreign country, free and unmolested, GER
tainly not subject to any such injuries and
insults as they are in the Southern States
of this slave-holding Union. The consiitu-
ton provides that the citizens of the United
! States shall be entitled to the privileges of
citizens in the several States; but this has
become mere sham, and mockery.
| There is no protection to Northern citizens
in the South, and much less any freedom
of speech. The fact tha; person is from
a Northern State, is alone, often sufficient
to subject him TO barbarity and cruelties
which would disgrace the Fejee Islands or
any band of cannibals ever known to exist.
Instances of this kind are frequent, and as
the TINES is bound to be paper of" facrs"
for the year 1860, we give the evidence be-
low which fully sustains our assertions.
We do not preach disunion, but we say
emphatically, if the South want to dissolve
the Union. or secede from it, "let them
slide" Their boasted cotton crop" about
which so much is said by northern dough-
fs.voS, dea= not equal the hay crop of the
North by several millions. But to the facts :
A man, supposed to be an Abolitionist
of dark complexion, with black hair and a
scar over the left eye, about five feet eleven
inches in height, calling himself James w.
Rivers, was taken up on the 18th instant,
by the Vigilance Committee of Graham
vile, Is. C.) who had him tarred and feath-
cred. and the right side of his head shaved.
TAR AND FEATHERs.-We learn that
last night, about II o'clock, party who
had reason TO doubt the orthodoxy, or who
believed in the heterodoxy of Sewall III.
Fisk. dealer in shoes in this city, and
native of Massachusetts, waited upon him,
and using some persuasives peculiar to
themselves, induced him to exchange his
usual habiiments, and don those that
transmogrified him into a pretty fair
representative of Plato's definition of a
mana cock. He was not game, how
ever, for he had no spurs; nor did he
exhibit any inclination to make fight or
crow, being, we suppose, off from his own
dunghill The charges against him were,
that be generally expressed Abolition SEN
. timents, and that on last Sabbath evening,
he read to negroes in his store. These
charges, Mr.. Fisk denied. He was called
out of his store at night, and gagged before
he could make either noise or resistance.
, He was then placed in a carriage, and
driven a short distance from the city, and
f, the application, as above, made to his nude
person he was then left TO find his way
back as best he could. His first appear
ance in the limits was near the hospital
. where he came in sight of watchman
, who was SO alarmed at the sight that he
gave spasmodic jerk at his rattle, and
took to his heels, not willing to face SC
), dreadful an apparition. A reinforcement
!. however, was brave enough 10 approach
;, him, when he was conducted home, the
!, ...ss. saassihl -i.aaq-
! inc. Not a spot Of his skin was visible
and his hair was trimmed close to his head
! Mr.. Fisk, it is but justice 10 say, visited BIZ
!. native State few years ago, where, in !
public meeting, he defended the institution
: of Slavery, and brought upon himself th'
= censure of his relations, as well as the ami
madversion of the papers in Holliston
where he made his speech. -.Sarannal
i Netcs, Dec. 3.
A correspondent OF the Charleston Ker.
u cnyy. writing from Blackville, in that State
after narrating the circumstances eonnccie'
with the tartihg Of Salvo, says;-
a On the 18th, we sent off foot-travel
., Ter, who was passing through. the coun
q try with an air-sun, a dice-box, and som
steroscopie views, and last night we start
10 ed back to Charleston man named Jonei
who came here with his wife direct iron
Is Vermont, for the professed purpose OF tax
u ing ambrotypes. Having no use for sue
ID yara5ond characters, when they hail fror
abolition territory, we alvise them 10 kee
= away
n eg The Rockville md Journal saJ
that a man was arrested near the Gre
~ Falls. in that county, on Wednesday las
for the expression of a feeling OF symp'
nd thy with the late rebellion ai iIaFpcr.s fe
nv. lie Is now in the county jail:
al FnfGIirEsFD pY BLIND GrBL--Ti
o. Wheeling InteIligenccr publishes the stat
mcni OF a blind girl, who was recently e.
he pe!led from Martinsburgh, Vas on snsi
20, a;o, of l,e;ne an Aiositionist. She says