The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-15
Hartford Tires,
Palmer ard Goodrich Tires,
and e. & j." Tires.


I this slave, when some one came in and
said that he was Free that he had beer
| purchased from his master by phi.
| lanthropist for four hundred dollars and
| given his freedom. This Incident
brought us in touch with the anti slave
ry people, and we began to make our
appearance in their meetings and work
for this cause. Latimer Joined us and
travelled with us, and Frederick Doug
lass also became member of our par
ty 1t was at the annual meeting at
Fanueil Hall that William Lloyd Garri-
son was interrupted by a mob, who
stood up and Kissed him when he at
tempted to speak. He asked my
brother If he would not sing, and there
my brother Jesse composed on the spot
that song which was afterward sung by
us at all our meetings for the anti
slavery cause, entitled Get Off the
Track
Then Mr.. Hutchinson sang that spir-
tied song which was used so often af-
terward by the family, the beginning of
which Isl
He, the car emancipation
Rides majestic through the nation,
BEARING on ltS train the story
Liberty the nations glory
My brother Jesse was the song wr-
ter Of the family" said Mr.. Hutchinson,
and he wrote a great many songs
which we sang wherever we went
VISIT TO ENGLAND.
1T was shortly after this meeting at
Faneuil Hall, which was largely at
tended, that five of us went to England
with Garrison and Fred Douglass and
gave over two hundred concerts and
held over two hundred meetings in the
anti slavery cause. OF the Hutchinson
family those who went were Jesse, Jud-
son, Asa, Abbie and myself. In Lon
don we had as our patrons such men as
Charles Dickens whom l knew person.
ally, and many other noted men of that
time. We remained in England nearly
a year"
After The return of the Hutchinsons
from England they Travelled over the
country holding anti-slavery meetings.
Their songs on the subject, combined
with the addresses of such men as Gar
rison, Sumner, Chase, John P Hale,
and other antislavery men, did much
for the anti-slavery cause.
I'VE were oftentimes placed in posi-
tons where our lives were in danger
At one time in Philadelphia. while we
were singing an anti-slavery song com
posed by my brother jesse" said Mr..
1--WE were Kissed and
abused, and obliged TO leave the town.
30 great was the Indignation aroused
against US, l never met John Brown
myself, but at one of the meetings
which we held in New York, John
Brown was present, and was pointed |
put to US. This was a year or two be-
FORE his expedition to Virginia to raise /
4 rebellion among the slaves. The first |
lime / saw Abraham Lincoln was In |
springfield, Ill The meeting at which |
We appeared was a very large one and |
ifter ii had been under way for some |
ime and while we were singing two ex-
remedy tall men wearing tall hats ap-
eared and took seat down front One
# these men was MIR. Lincoln and the
ther was a great friend of his named
Brown from Missouri When the meet
ng was over Mr.. Lincoln was intro
luced to US and we talked with him
bout the anti-slavery cause He was
cry much interested in all that was
old him. At Galena about this time
General Grant who was living there at