Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-12
AlISasia.so to tbs old Bay State a crimo.

AIIesiaHce 10 The Old Bay State n Crime.
We learn from the st Louis Demo
crat that Mr.. .Ebenezer White, a native
of Pitts6eld, Mass, from 1885 to 1856, a
resident of FsyettsEills, Arkansas was re-
Gently driven from FayetteTills BY its pro-
slaveryinhabitant simply because be Rvowed
allegiance to Massachusetts the land of bis
birth. Mr.. White went to Fayetteville in
1856 to build q -four mill for MessTs. Stir
man 4 Dixon, firm in the place. he con-
tinued in their employ as miller and last yesr
bought g third interest in the mill for
$1,000; be opened grocery store and was
respected and indusuiops citizen. At the
November election be voted for Bell and
Everett but took no part in politics or poll
cal discussions. Early in January he was at
the telegraph Office one evening when dis
patch came saying that the Massachusetts,
Legislature had voted money and food for
suffering South Carolina. One DR.. Bell said
the Massac nusetts people had better keep
their money to help their starving operatives.
Mr.. White said there were no starving opera
tives in Massachusetts,; that they had raillions
in the saving banks and could sustain them.
selves. DR.. Bell asked what they would do
without cotton when Mr.. White answered
that they could do without cotton ss long
as the South could do without money for the
cotton. The matter was then dropped. On
the 18th ult., while mingling with another
caoEd at ths telegraph Office, among whom
was the Mayor of he city, a dispatch came
to the effect that the Governor Of Asssachu-
sets bad recommended that Massachusetts,
raise twenty thousand men to tender to the
Government to enforce the laws, if necessary.
The following scene then ensued
aMayor Bedford remarked angrily that be
would like to put q cockade on the breast Of
every Massachusetts, man, so as 10 know him.
Mr.. White said they could put one on him
then as quick as they pleased, as he was q
Massachusetts, man. The Mayor said: You
srsl Well, then, you will be compelled to
leave this place Immediately, and moreover
YOU won't be allowed to pack, either. The
Mayor meant By this that Mr.. White wouldn't
be allowed to carry any thing away. Mr..
Ursey, editor Of the Fayetteville Democrat
said he wished every Yankee was strung up
or compelled to leave if be didn't swear
allegiance to the Southren confederacy.-
Ursey asked him to what State be did owe
allegiance. Whereapon White said that II
the Union was dissolved, hsoE6d allegiance
to Massachusetts, Angry remarks folloKed,
but nothing was done"
On the 2lsta public meeting was called,
which passed resolutions ordering Mr.. White
toquit town for declaring that he owed al
lsgianee to Massachusetts,. The result vas
that Mr.. White bad to quit leaving property
to the amountof $4,000 in the hands Of Messrs.
Stirman and Dixon.
There is said 70 be an organization OF 800
minute men, armed With riHes, in Fayette-
vile, who we're formed principally through
fear OF = faid By Montgomery and his men,
TO capture the kidnappers of the Methodist
clergyman, Ar, 7BsVley, who was taken to
Texal and iyhched, and Who liys the town.