Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-10-18
The New York Word, Of Saturday, pub
fishes the following
Att ANITA, GA, Sept 30, 1872.
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Att .STA, GA, Sept. 30, 1872.
10 The Error Of the H'ortd:
SIR. In February last | Was conva!rs-
ing som an attack OF rheumatism Whan
~ friend, the Rev. David Wills, President
Of OglethOTpe University at this place,
called TO sea ine. | som discovered the
Doctor was not III his usual spirits, AID
upon asking the cause he said.
- l AIN not only deeply concerned but
very sad ut the state Of affairs in South
Carolina" 1t had been his former home,
and he was warmly attached TO MS friends
there.
d" W hat new disaster las betallen the
people of that unhappy State >" asked
- Why, only last night We entertained
two Young men who were flying for their
lives from their homes there, and who are
going under assumed names TO live in Ter
ncsscc. They brought us tho sad inlclli-
goncc Of the arrest OF an old friend, d Mr.
Samuel q. Brown, Of York county. This
had been done by order Of Judge Bond,
and after a mock trial he has been sen
fenced to five years OF hard labor i'll the
State l"nitentiary Of New York, and is
no" confined in the prison al Albany
" Why have they done this >" asked.
= Upon the plea that he was connected
with the ku-klux.'
Wells it true, and did they prove
that he WAS ?'
They proved anything they wished to,
for the witnesses were brited, and nOtWith-
standing the old man filed All affidavit
proving that So far from acting in concert
with the SO-Called Ku-kluX, he had gone at
midnight on a recent occasion to pr, yent
the murder Of a negro. The young men
told me there was not word Of truth III
the accusations, and | am prepared to be-
lieve they are false, for l have known Mr..
Brown iUr years, and more honest, tip-
right, law-ahiding man does ROT live. Anu
no",' he said, growing very eat!Iesf, LII
tell you what L waut to du-yOu must q
this old man out OF prison.
Blu how? it is lmpOssible' What can
DO?
you can do something, know you
can. Ililn!l Of some III aus by which you
can aid him. Write to some Of your i
tIHej4:itl friends in New Y ok to interce,t,,
in lis behalf. Write to some one al Al
OluH !; exhaust your woman's wit, aud III
~l<e YOU seven months to get him out CT
prison."
Ni'h warm heart beating in sympathy
"I5h the cause, but III despair as to my
ability to do amy thing, 1 sat silent and
Thoughtful. Again the Doctor said:
-'oomething las led me TO speak thus
earnestly to you, and l feel confident Of
success if you will only lend men your
aid
Suddenly happy thought struck me,
ana | said
''iil write to Mrs. Governor Hoffman.
whose husband is a Democrat, and to
Father Walworth, Roman athulic priest.
whom l have heard lives at ALBANY
Surely between the two, the one a woman
and the other follower of Christ, we can
do something's
''All right. The suggestion is happy
one, aud act upon it at once. Now must
go. God speed yc'', fnr you are enlisted
in noble cause, and II you hear anything
let me know"
With these words the Doctor left, and
although | was scarcely able to sit up, and
wrote with feeble, trembling hand, |
penned two letters, and that nj gifts mail
bore them on their uncertain mission Of
mercy. The following is one of them:
ATLANTA, GA Feb. II, 1872. :
DedT Mrs. Hoffman although a
stranger, you viii pardon the liberty l .
axe in thus address Ing you when my mis-
ion is made known, for appeal to you III
he name Of humanity-Yea, more, come
0 beg you, as Christian woman, and by
hose sympathetic and softer feelings which
Tod has implanted in your woman nature,
0 befIiend the friendleSs and to console
he afflicted. There lies in the State Prison
Albany an old man by the name of
amuel G. Brown, who is sixty-fiye years
1 age, almost blind, and broken in health.
ie is from Yorkville, York District, South
,arolina, and is victim of Judge Bond,
t ku-Klux nOtoricty, who was sent to
'arolina by Grant, for the purpose, it
Tould seem, Of prosecuting the innocent
nd protecting the infamous. This old
Ian was dragged from his home, brought
Columbia, where Bonds court sits, and
lrown into prison. He was then taken