Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-01-15
HYDE PARK, yEaMoNI WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 49, 1868
HUNNICUTT.

Our brother Little, of the Fredericks
burg Nsaos, makes valuable contribu
tiou to the history of the times in tn
following personal "reminiscences relatin,
to the Radical leader in the conspiracy
now sitting at the Capitol 1t is of Hun
nicutt, the "Friehd and Hero" that b,
speaks, when he says: taa
Down in the bottom Of his black hear
be knows and trembles that NE IS KNOWN
in fredericksburg. He knows the pegroe,
here detest him., Before the war he denied
them the right to have house in which
to worship God, and denounced the mos
pious Of them as men who would support
their church by stealing from their mas
ters
| Huuuicutt knows that white men here
know his history. With his private his.
tory, or conduct, or habits, We have moth,
ing to do. AS q public man we have a
right to expose him. Alas for Virginia,
that such man as he should be aaong
her public men, when he should be in
her peuitentiary,
Before the war, IIunnicutt was DLAr.
ANT srcEssIoSIsr The files of his paper,
his reported speeches, his unwavering
advocacy of Ex. Governor Smith ("Extra
Billy the concurrent testimony and
recollection Of this whole community and
all the neighboring counties, his treacher-
GUS proposition to seize Fortress Monroe,
his own VOTE FOR SECESSION, given 'of his
own free will and accord his sermon at
Brooks Station on the day Of the first
battle Of Manassas, in which, as we'll as
in his prayer, he called down such fearful
imprecatons upon the Union army. indi-
Vidually and collectively, that secession
ist told US it almost made his hair stand
on end, (the hearers and witnesses to the
truth Of this are numerous,) and all his
subsequent course and career, until the
Federal army occupied Fredericksburg in
April, 1862, all overwhelmingly convict
him Of being, with all his heart and soul,
a secessiOnist from choice.
We remember we'll that when we oppos
ed Disunion and War as an unnecessary
madness, when we stood out against our
best friends and most intimate associates.
against public sentiment. against our own
pecuniary interests and prosperity of our
paper, and urged that secession was born
in Massachusetts,. and its chief apostles
then were from Mississippi; that Virgin
ia alone was "oUR COUNTRY" and We did |
not belong to Massachusetts, nor to Mis- |
sisslppi, nor to Carolina, nor to Connect. |
cut; that we owod allegiance to Virginia
llonc. and Fidelity to the compact she had
made with other Commonwcalths that
t was time to make new compact and
lew Consultation, and it conld be done
oathom wa,, if FOOLS and madmen-North
md South--could be restrained. r ~H
q While we argued for Union as geo!
graphical necessity and begged for peace,
his man Hunnicutt, this LOYAL Union.
st" was for disunion and and war. He
:nows this is true. a l"a
We well remember one incident which
e dare not deny. He met US at the cor
er one evening, opposite our Office, in
anuary, 1862, aud with violent indigna- ,
ion and excitsment, Informed us that he
ad been reported to be holding secret !,
'nion meetings with Rollow, Miller &c
his house, and that hc would like TO
AZ the heart out Of the malignant fcnd
ho questioned his fidelity to the South.
n confcderacy. His traitorous soul
fetcnded to be indignant at the charge.
hich he knew to be even then the truth.
This wretch wants to be "a leader" In
Convention to make q constitution for
irginia We have not read or noticed
e lies and slonders we hear he has pub !,
she'd in his Dirty Diaper" Of newspa- :
n concerning us, A hundred Huuui. :, !
It's could not harm US, but duty requires 4
every man to use all honest efforts to
eak bown whatever influence this bad
an might attain among those who know q,
m not, .
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