The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-01

negroes and mulattoes was endeavorinp 10 ..
cape on the underground railroad from Div.
land. These remained till their masters we,o
informed of their arrest, and came for and
released them. On the evening preceding m,
Imprisonment, two prisoners had been led on,
and shot, and | soon learned that this was NJ
unusual occurreLJe. Nearly every day Wit
messed the execution OF one or more of u.s.
CHASED By BLooD-HoUNDs.
After several attempts he escaped, and
nearly starved, after several days in III.
woods
About four o'clock PM. | was startled bv
the baying of blood-hounds behind me, and
apparently on nay track. Before escaviD,
from Jail, had been advised BY the prisoners
to obtain some onions, as these, rubbed On The
soIes of my boots, would destroy the scent
They could only be procured, however, by a
visit to some garden patch, and | feared to %
prison from which the hounds could Obtain tbe
scent in order to find my track, and my start.
ing in a southwest direction was an addition
precauton against blood hounds. Their bay
ing soon became more alarmingly distinct
Having heard them almost every night for
years, as they hunted down the fugitive slave
| | could not mistake the fearful import of Their
bowling. l could devise no plan for breaking
the trail.
Climbing a tree, | resolved to await
the arrival of the cavalry, and having dete
mined to die rather than be taken back aga
to Tupolo, | would refuse to obey any sun
mons to descend. Oh how | wished for ny
navy repeater, that might sell my life
dearly as possible Thf might make som.
sc ssionist bite the dust ere | was slain II
often though. of the couplet in the Old song
Z" The hounds are bayng my track,
O, Christian, will you send nae back"
A feeling Of strO4g sympathy arose IN my
bosom for the poor African, who, in ais endeav.
or TO escape from the iron furnace of Southern
slavery, often encountered the blood hounds
and was torn to pieces by them. A fellow
feeling makes US woundrous kind
had remained but short time 10 the tree
/ when ascertained that the hounds we're bear.
ing eastward, and they soon passed at d.
lance. They ,,Jre on the track of some othel
poor fugitive, and rojoiced again in the hope
Of safety.
Mr.. Aughey says of Southern Union men
Had Mr.. Stevenson been with me in Tu-
pelo, and looked upon those seventy or eighty
prisoners who were incarcerated for their cd
herence to the Union-had he witnessed the
daily execution of some of tuem, who preferred
death to volunteering to defend q cause which
they did not hesitate to deEounoe at the peri
of their lives-had he been with me while in
the midst of host oil Union citizens of Mis-
sissippi wHo at the noon Of night had assem-.
in the deep gens and on the high hills, for
the purpose of devising means to resist the
ha.ed conscript law--he would have come to
a lar different conclusion. | have seen The
cavalry go out ;" arrest Union men. was
at ar. Willis Herron's in South Carol
county, Tennessee, and while there, seveEs
companies Of cavalry came up from Jacks'l
to destroy the loyal citizens of that vicinity
and they did destroy some of them and muel
property. They passed within two hundred
yards of fertilization hao ~ thrown up III
resist them, end would ha, been fired on bad
they come within range. Before completing
their mission, a Messenger came to lntOEa
them that Fort Henry was bsleaguered. They
fastened to Gho fort just in time TO take pail
n the acticn. After the surrender of tHe
fort they retreated to Fort Dunelson, and
were all captured at the reduction of tt at fort
to the great jHy of these Union citizens WHOM
they had drl IN fro their homes, and whose
property they had StrOyed.'