The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-27

dered my arrest, as also that of John
 Brown, Jr., and James Redpath nelth-
 CT of whom ever appeared before them
 --nor did l. The date of this order was
 February IT, 1860.
 During the greater part of March and
 the first days of April, was about my usual occupations in Concord and Bos-
 ton, going also to New Hampshire to
 deliver lecture on Cromwell, which I
 had written in February. I could,
 therefore, have been arrested by day. light, had the officers of the slave oli-
 garchy been so disposed. But for some
 reason they sneaked in to Concord one
 dark evening, in which I had been
 about the village making calls, got ad-
 mission to my house by fraudulent
 paper. asking me for charity, and pro
 ceeded to arrest and handcuff me. | I was then unmarried, and my family consisted of my sister, Miss Sarah San born and a single domestic, Julia Lea
 ry. These could not have put five men i to rout, but they gave vigorous alarm.
 and before the official kidnappers could carry me to their coach for Boston the neighborhood and the town were
 aroused, and so many had gathered in front of my house that they saw they
 could not take me away quietly and by force, as their purpose was. Hearing the alarm-for bells were ringing as if for fire-the late Judge Hoar then on the supreme bench, instead of hasten ing to the spot, returned to his library
 and filled out writ of habeas corpus,
 for which, by my counsel J. s. Reyes,
 petitioned This was put into the hands
 of MT. Moore in about twenty minutes after the first alarm and he proceeded
 to take me from the United States mar
 shal and his comrades, who had hand
 cuffed me. Then they found 1t conven-
 tent to leave town as fast as their
 horses would take them, pursued by stones and other missiles thrown by
 some of my pupils and neighbors The chairman of the selectmen, the late MT.
 Bull, put revolver, which he said was
 loaded, into my hand and the sheriff intrusted me for safe keeping to Lieu tenant George Prescott, who died as colonel in the war There spent what remained of the night was taken before the supreme court at Boston the next morning, and about D. m. was dis charged from arrest by the full bench-- Judge Shaw delivering the decision My counsel were the late Governor An drew and Samuel E. Sewell, with my classmate, R. T. Paine, as junior. They argued my case on general grounds, but the court released me on the narrow ground that Silas Carlton was not the arms of the senate. I left the court room at the suggestion of Wendell Phillips. passing by Walt Whitman, the poet, as I went out, who had come to take hand in rescung me, if needful; was carried to East Cam bridge, where large public meeting was held In the evening to celebrate my release. owed my safety first to the of my sister, and then to the gathering of the neighbors, and the ready action of Judge Hoar and Cap tain Moore, aided by the unanimous ac- ton of my townsmen.
 Senator Mason and his committee | were not pleased with the result. They to the senate what had hap- memorial which I sent to the senate through Charles Sum | ner, and finally referred 1t to the judi | ciary committee, for whom Bayard, of l Delaware, uncle of the late minister to | England. reported bill legalizing such | action as Judge Shaw had declared ille- | gal-thus confessing that was right in | denying the senate's power, as exer- csed Before the bill could pass, the | south had seeded, and the power of the slave oligarchy was broken. I caused | my kidnappera to be indicted, and also brought a civil suit against them; but the war came on. several of them en- listed. and their counsel, General But Ter, went to the front, whereupon dis continued my suit and requested the district attorney to moi proc the indict- ments, which was done. Such Is the outline of an affair which made much noise at the time, but was soon forgot .en in the important events that soon election of Lincoln, seces- .ion, long war, and the forcibe eman- ,ipation which my friend Brown had begun, and which Lincoln completed be- ore the slavery killed him, too, as 1t lad slain Brown.--Concord (N. H.) Pa riot.