Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-03
Row Debts are Collected in Georgia.

Eow Debts are Collected in Georgia.
Our readers will recollect the case of Pow
ers, the Irishmau, who was cruelty whipped
and afterwards tarred and feathered. at Coum
bia, S. c., on suspicion of holding abolition
sentiments. The following account of the
treatment of another Irishnnan i'll Georgia is
not less disgraceful to the people Of that sec
ton of the country We condcnsc froma min
ute statement as published in the New York
Tribune James Crangale, an Ifishman etluca-
ted to the law, emigrated to the United States
about two years and half since. Soon after
his arrival, he engaged with Gray & Turley,
Dry Goods dealers of Savannah and Augusta,
Ga, as clerk. After brief stay in the former
place, he entered their establishment at Angus
ia, but was soon discharged. Returning to
Savannah he obtained the place of Deputy Clerk
to the Court of Ordinary Of Cbantham county,
and was living quietly, never meddling with
the subject of Slavery. Feeling, however, that
he had been treated badly by his late employ
ers he sued them for violation of contract, and
Judgment was successfully granted in his favor,
| by two Courts, from the first of which the de-
fendants had appealed. Here a difficulty oc-
Cured; he could find no officers of the law in
| Savannah who would execute the duties Of
| their Office against well known and infuen-
tal house. On appealing to Solicitor-General
Hartridge, to lay the matter before the Grand
jury, he was refused on the ground that an in
dictment against Gray & Turley would involve
one of their attorneys. Crangale next went to
! Augusta, where the defendants also held prop
! erty, hoping to find officers in that place who
would serve the Judgment. He took a room
at the United States Hotel, where in the course
of a few hours he was waited en- by enc John
| Nelly, who, on behalf OF the Vigilance Com-
mittee. informed him that he was an Aboli-
zionist, and ordered him to leave town imme-
diately. Crangale refused, replying that he
was no Abolitionist, that if they could prove
him to be one, they were welcome tohang him.
On speaking of the matter in the hotel, the bar
keeper stated that he knew lie was an Aboli-
ZIONIST for Andrew Gray had said SO. The
said Andrew is brother Of the senior partner
in the firm of Gray & Turley. About two
o'clock on the next morning, Mr. Crangnle was
/ dragged from his bed by the emissaries of the
:, Vigilance Committee, and taken to jail Ills
keys were then demanded. On his refusing, he
was informed that persistence in this would
/. be considered as equivalent to Il confession OF
guilt He accordingly gave them up, and was
brought before Justices Olin and Picked, Oh
an affidavit of Foster Blodget, ,Ir., Mayor o
; the city, which accused him of stirring up in
) surrection among the slaves, approving of thf
> Harper's Ferry affair, &c. On trial severa
witnesses preferred charges against him, bu
| not one of them was sustained by any bu
S hearsay evidence. Col. Cumming, prominen
/. lawyer whom he had engaged to defend him
: addressed the Court in speech which ha'
e considerable effect. As no, little Of evidenc'
n could be produced against the prisoner, he wa
O acquitted, but condemned to pay the costs Q
n prosecution, the fees of the Vigilance Commit
: tee who had arrested him without legal proeess
v and the cost Of imprisonment and was remand
l. cd to Jail until all should be paid On goin
Is to the hotel, his coat and valise, which the Con
v mittee had taken from him were produced, bu
,r his pocket book. containing $500, was not :
u.