The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-04-26

rIoso ministers OF peace and mercy, Invest
III. their Office with personal inyiolabilty'
W nv all civilized States, were imme,
Tsfslv with threats of lawless violence, ana
s'a N: ,..e az one. the Hon. Samuel uoar,
with brutal indignities, expelled.
GEORGIA OUTRAGE.
"a wear aro last January James Crangale
went 10 Augusta, Ga, TO collect deot ior
which he had recovered judgment in the
Georgia Courts, and held an execution Inc
first night of his arrival he received warn
ing from a person protesting to represent tue
vigilance committee, to quit the city ioru'-
with. He learned from the messenger tha'
ne was charged with abolitionism lie W,
teri. denied II. and explained fully his real
GRAND Having done this, he thought no
NJ. Of the matter, and retired to bed In
cnamher in the principal hotel OF the place.
A, u,;dnicbt he was dragged IRON his bed
by n yi,,iiancc committee consisting Of some
,;,sn,v persons, backed by mob outside.
This committee took possession OF his yalise
and coat, containing his pocket book. IL
appearrd by the evidence at HIS trial, that
tbe original intention was to hang him at
once to the lamp-pOst in front OF his hotel
But for some cause they changed their pur-
pose, took him to the guard-house and lock
cd him in cell.
"The next day Justice Of the peace came
TO his cell and demanded the key OF his yalIee'
lie declined TO deliver il, whereupon his wish
tor declared that his refusal would confirm
his guilt, and that he himself would call the
vigilance committee and have him hung
forthwith. Upon this persuasion the key
was delivered up. The next morning he
was taken out and conducted to the court
house. and on the way was for the first time
arrested ON n warrant, in which he was
charged with exciting instruction OF slaves,
n CAPITAL offence. for which he was to be inn
mediately tried by two justices OF the peace,
one of them his late visitor. Happy Tor
him, and without doubt the means OF saving
his life, was the engagement OF Col. Cum
ming, an able lawyer and kind and generous
man, rs his counsel.
"Of five witnesses examined for the pros
ecution, it appeared on close eross,examlna-
ton that not one had ever heard him utter
an abolition sentiment or word, but they had
heard from plenty Of Others that they had.
The evidence, too, all pointed at the mercan-
tile house OF Gray & Turley, OF Savannah
and Augusta, the debtors on whom he had
come to levy his execution, Us the authors OF
the calumny but, at this point, the court
arrested and diverted inquiry, because they
said il would injure the trade Of the city
with the North Col. Cumming made an
able and fearless defence of his client, by
which the rabblc were evidently awed. He
denounced these vigilance committees assclf-
constituted, and raising the cry OF "abOli'
ZIONIST! 2" against Northern men to effect
their ruin and divide the spells.
mir. Crangale was acquitted, for there
WIS really not a title OF evidence against
him but the court adjudged that .hc should
nav the costs. lie asked TO be conducted to
his hotel by the officer in whose custody no
was to b. taken back to prison, to stand
committed till he had paid tor heating the
poker. There his coat and yalisc were re-
stored 10 him. minus his money, amounting
10 slOO. Ho returned to the court and
made known his loss. Thereupon the pre-
sidin. magistrate told him he was ~ C.
ID FOOL and asked him If his friends
had not told him he was fool Then he
ordered him to open his yaliss, which he de-
clincd. The court insisted, declaring that
if any abolition documents were found in Il
thew would hang him yet. There were boys
enough about 10 do it, Mr.. Crangalo ~
piled, that tho key having been out 81 his
possession two days, he could not be certain
that those who had taken his money out had
not put something else in. lie was, how
ever, compelled by threats to yield, and thus
encounter new peril of his LIE. Nothing
WAS found except the papers in the suit Oi
cr,nyale AGAINST GRAY X Turlcy.
"Then tho court sent to the chairman oil
the vigilance committee to inform him that
the prisoner had no money, and to request
him 10 come himself and pay the bill OF costs
That person returned hat refusal. Then
the court d dispatched messenger for the
samo purpose - the Mayor of the city, who
had entered the complaint of exciting lnsur-
rection, but he could not DO found. Mr..
Crangale was then remanded. lie endured
incarceration number OF days more, until
thoroughly satisfied that there was neither
honor, honesty, shame nor susceptibility OF
remorse in this popularand official odndiHe-
neither fear OF God nor regard OF man.
Again he communicated his situation to Col.
Cumming, who generously came forward,
Maid the bill and set the captive free. The
Bin amounted to Sl5 ,30-Sll Of which was
for his arrest. and probably an additional
profit of the vigilance committee.
"Instances OF this mot tatal) kind have
occurred without number, but they are Of
mild type.
NORTHERN CITIZENS MURDERED IN SLAVE STATES.
alt is believed that not less than twenty
10 twenty-five Northern men, sojourners in
the State, persisted in the persecution in
Northeastern Texas from last midsummer to
autumn. During the last year, ending Dec.
81, 1850, sixteen Northern citizens were
murdered in other slave States. Two white
men were headed up in barrels and rolled in
To the Mississippi-One at Memphis, Tennes-
SEE, and one at Friar's Point, Mississippi,
and one In like manner into the Alabama
river. Seven hundred and twenty-three
Northern men. during the same year, were
violently expelled, or on their arrival by the
steamers turned back and not permitted 10
land. OF the latter there were one hundred
and twenty. A large proportion OF the
whole were lynohed by bloody stripes, shaw
ing or halfshaying the head, whiskers and
moustaches tarring, feathering and riding
on rails, nearly drowning or hanging, and
repeating the operation after assassination.
One man was hung five times till the agony
was over, and then let down. There is no
probability that we have had accounts of all
the c.sCs, and especially Of the worst. II is
we'll known that the Southern presses, to
whom we must be chiefly indebted for this
kind Of information, often observe on these
subjects severe retieencc. Very recently
Massachusetts, pcdlar has returned, who de-
clares that two Northern men, To his knowl-
edge, were hung, Of whom not the slightest
mention has been made.
THE COMMENCEMENT or THESE ourRAGES.
''Such tragedies. though Of late more fro
quent and more bloody, are not new. They
happened in the South, with catastrophcs