The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-11-28
Nathaniel, the Martyr.
" If you have tears to shed, you'd better sht
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EN-. '-Shakspoke.
In the democratic convention of n. H.,
hell last week, a photographic report of the
proceedings gives the foil wing:
MIR Lamprey Of Hampton rose and said
that he had been asked by a hundred mem
bers of the convention, more or less, to in
troduce them to one of its members. He
could not do it among so many. He rose to
ask the president of the convention to allow
him to introduce to them man who had
been incarcerated in the only dungeon own
ed by the United States government in New
Hampshire. The alusion was to Fort Con-
stitution, at Portsmouth, He was there
compelled, without charge or trial, to spend
forty days of his life. He alluded to DR. Ma
thanie Batchelder of Epping.
So e one proposed three cheers for DR.
Batchelder but it was responded to by only
two or three voices.
DIR Ba'chelder assembled the platform, and
spoke for few moments in a very excited
manner. He announced himself rebel
He was locked up in a jail he had never seen
before, because he was in favor of free gov
eminent for white people and not for mig
gers. Slavery was right. 1t could not be
proved that slavery was sin. Any physician
could disapprove this position. The lore-arms
of negroes were four inches longer than
white mans. They never sprung from Ad,
am. The Doctor gave several other of the
negro's physiological reculiarities and said,
"God never made an animal, except the
1t l., l. III ~
Berry received liberal amount of denuncia-
ton. The doctor then proceeded to give an
account of some of his own peculiarities-
He announced himself as death y on minis
tiers. They had preached the negro twenty
FIVE years for him, but he hadn't heard them
for the space Of ten years, because he hadn't
been inside OF church for that period
They always preached the negro and, in
his town, they hadn't converted any souls for
good many years. Niggers were their
breakfast, dinner, supper ana lodging The
doctor concluded by advising his hearers to
90 home and vote the dem, cratic ticket.
How the "hundred members" who had
asked in vain iOh cruel fates y to be intro
duced to this martyr to his own ideas OF
right, must have mept and howled and sobbed
and blutJe,ed and SMILED and styled and
roared and monned and cried as DIR. Ma
THANIEL closed lis holy lips after altering
those nerer to he forgotten mords!!
How .fend-Hhr his wrongs! How lamb
like his spirit. Locked up for forty days
and forty nights (jpSt as Tang as It tool to
TOAD tie ~hole eath!V in jail. he shat
nerer seen tic nside Of betore,' (oh, cruel,
cruel! rhy could they not hare PIT him in
one lie ,ras familiar uiH 2, all because-well
because he was a rebel.
Imagine calf led to the slaughter. or an
ass forced to bray al in dark stable, and
YOU will have something mathematical of his
,utferings. But how consoling it must have
been to his noble heart to think that he was
so far above mankind in general as to be en-
tirey free from the erroneous idea that a
black man is a human being. How his
heart must have swelled with pride at the
thought that he lad not seen the inside ofG
church for ten gears!
And then, too, he was the pet of the De
mocracy. A hundred members had asked
70 shake his martyr paw, three cheers we've
given him by three voices, and he was asked
70 make speech-ro relate his "bi,ter, burn
ing wrongs" - to curse the government.
damn the ministers, (as the three thousand
New England clergy had been damned by
the democrats while ago. blast the niger,
and advise his hearers to "go home and vote
the Democratic ticket
With such an unterritied Democrat as DR..
Nathaniel Ba,chelder of Epping to denounce
them.how can those simple souls who believe
in sustaining the government and putting
down the rebellion hope TO thrive? How
can ministers of the Gospel live under his
frown? How can those henighted souls
who believe that God made of one flesh all
mankind without regard to color-who think
that the soul of both the negro and DIR. Ma.
thaniel Batchelder of Epping may vet stand
before the Judgment throne of the Eternal
God, side by side--how will they endure his
scorn?
1t is clear to our mind that The world amt
half so coed as it ought to be, and. though
there can be no doubt but that Dr. Nathaniel
batchelder of Epping is a sound Democra,
and will always vote and advise others to
vote tina: ticket, it may he he is not sound
patriot. But as he was the special favorite
Of "a Democratic convention" and doubtless
Ivy this time has had his paw shook by
that hundred members more or less" he
must be "Sound on tie yoo$e' any way.
GOING CP.-Ihe Boston newspapers have
announced rise in prices of their respective
sheets on the LIST of December. The Daily