Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-03-22
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other, those of God should be obeyed rather
than those Of men? of the rule of conduct
which brought Daniel to the den of lions, Shad-
rach to tie burning fiery furnace, Peter and
Paul to stripes, dungeons and death, Ridley
and Latimer to the stake, and John Brown, the
modern good Samaritan, to the gallows 2
Would he have us trample upon Gods laws,
that mans may not be broken? Does he real
ly think the lower law more just, more excel
lent, more important than the higher! Does
he deny mans right of F" private Judgment !"
in regard to his own duty? Woe for the State
whose chief representative of JUSTICE openly as :
serting such impiOties as these, is still left in
charge of the important functions of that sta
ton
Very much of what Judge Redfeld asserts in
this article, appears to me extravagantly and
monstrously untrue. No epithets less compre-
hensive than these will adequately describe his
position. But the climax of even his assurance
is not reached until, near the close of his arti-
Gle, he threatens the Northern people {" if these
things continue " with an end of all fraternGI
confidence and intercourse Nth the South, and a
loss of the immense advantages of the Union to
them in ciuiI and religious point of vielo -!
Some specimens OF these &" immense advanta-
ges some proofof the &c fraternal confidence "
with which Northern people are welcomed at
the South--are found Common specimens Of
current news) on the same page of the Vermont
Standard which contains Judge Redfeld's arti-
Gle. They are as follows
" Mr.. MILLS, travelling agent for Messrs.
Bloss. & Co., propreters of thu American Nur-
series, in Rochester, N. Y, who is engaged in
the Southern States in the sale and delivery of
fruit and ornamental trees for his employers,
has suffered great annoyance, which he thus
describes in letter to friend
e" HANCOCK COUNTY, Va, January ID, 1860
8 Friend -: You have prob
ably read or heard of my exit from Kanawha
Valley, Virginia, as find an account of it in
pretty general circulation in newspapers both
North and South With many others from the
North, my business at Kanawha was to deliver
fruit and ornamental trees, for which had ia
ken orders last spmmer-nothing else As you
are aware, have always advocated democratic
principles and to suffer such treatment as I
have from members of my own party is little
more than u conscientious democrat like my
self can easily bear. At one place was allow
ed two and one-half days to commence and fin
ish my business At another place was al
lowed only to stay over night, snd then COM
PEELED to leave.
GA man from Ohio who was engaged in the
same business, was escorted to the Ohio river by
committee of three +. F. VS., for saying
John Brown was great, good, and courageous
| man.
Ny letters were opened, and those mailed
to j. Bloss & Co., and my wife, were not al
lowed to leave the state. But from accounts
of the treatment of other Northern men, have
no reason to complain of my own. Over in
the border county of Hancock, Virginia, the
papers not advocating southern principles are
not allowed to be distributed in the Post Office.
But the majority of the people here are of the
Republican stripe. There are but two slaves In
this county, and but seventeen in the adjoining
county-Brook.
Respectfully yours, &C. O. V. N. Mills"
The Atlantic (Ga.) ConGderacy publishes
the following precious paragraph, for the BEN
eft of the " unsound ones:
" We regard every man in our midst an enc
my to the institutions of the South who does
not boldly declare that he or she believes At
rican Slavery to be social moral and political
blessing. Any person holding other than these
sentiments, whether born at the South or the
North, is unsound, and should be requested ia
leave the country"
These are but specimens of very many cases
constantly occurring, in which the rights o.
Northern men are trampled on, their property
seized, their progress stopped, and their persons
outraged, in the Southern States, and this, fire.
quently, not only without evidence of the vir
tue which shareholders call crime, but on sus
picion absolutely unfounded and erroneous
And while these outrages are perpetrated OF
Northern men, the South is Danish ing her owl
best citizens, for expressing their own homes
convictions Mr.. Helper has been driven from
his native State, for writing one the most valu
able books that this age has produced. Profes
sor Hedrck was banished for voting with hi
party. Mr. Bailey, of Newport, Kentucky
has had his paper broken up, and his press de
stroyed. Even the few ministers In the South
who are disposed to preach the liberty will
which Christ makes us free !" are driven from
their parishes and homes, and Rev. Danie
Worth, Rev. John G. Fee, Rev. j. A. R. Rog
ers and Others, are now in prison or in exile
for their fathlulness to Christ's oppressed poor
Wherein have the Northern men above men
toned, and the hundreds who have experienced
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