The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-03-20
: THE OBSERVATORY.
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1t was kind of Mr.. Frank Sanborn,
the present Sage of Concord, TO
take time to correct my mistakes and
give YOU additional facts about the
attempt to lidnap him in connection
with the u. S. Senate's investigation
into the John Brown foray at Harper $
Ferry. Ny scrap book tells me how
his sister assisted in resisting the das-
tardly attempt. The SaDoorn family
were among the early New Hampshire
settlers, and always at the front IN
good things have, in this generation,
produced several prominent people.
and a goodly number OF successful
railroad men. That night of Mr.. San
born's attempted arrest his alert SIS
ter Immediately saw the value OF time
for the gathering of his neighbors.
An account given by one OF Them
headed
GALLANT CONDUCT OF MR..
SANBORNS SISTER"
and published the following morning,
says:
about 9 O'Clock a man named
Freeman went to Mr.. Sanborn's door
and rang the bell. Sanborn'S sister
answered the call. Freeman asked II
Mr. Sanborn was in, and on being
told that he was, said he had letter
for him and wanted to see him. His
sister turned to go in to speak to her
brother, and as she turned she heard
a low whistle. On turning again she
saw two or three men in the entry
way who immediately seized Mr.. San
born and attempted to carry him from
the house. His sister resisted to the
extent of her power, and Mr.. Sanborn
used all his power in endeavoring TO
escape from the hands of the officers,
who by this time had got the hand
cuffs upon their prisoner. When they
got him to the door the sister stopped
her resistance and screamed at the top
of her voice and alarmed her neigh
bors, a score of whom were soon on
the spot. By the time they got there
Mr.. Sanborn had been dragged into
the middle of the street, without hat
and in his stocking feet. Sanborn at
this point held up his manacled hands
over his head and shaking them, said
Citizens, look and see what the Un-
tied States Senate have done for me.
His remark made great sensation
among the crowd, and matters began
to look squally for the U. S. officers
In the meantime a messenger was dis
patched to ring the (church) bells,
and soon they were peahng out the
alarm upon the evening air. The
crowd was momentarily increasing.
Mr.. Sanborn's sister, seeing the
crowd surrounding the officers and
he's brother, and that she could do no
more service there, sliced the whip
from the carriage and began belabor-
ing the horses in good earnest, but
one of the men took the whip from
her. She then jumped into the car
riage to prevent her brother being
put in. but she was taken out with
more force than politeness, having her
clothes torn in the struggle"
All this had given time for the cit
liens to assemble, and the number
and sentiment of the crowd evidently
cowed the officers. Mr.. Sanborn
kindly corrects my mistake in saying
that the Massachusetts, Supreme Court
Judge who issued the writ of habeas
corpus was not the father of Senator
George +. Hoar. 1t was his older
brother, Ebenezer lockwood Hoar,
whom President Grant afterwards
made his Attorney General.
In discussing the attempted arrest
of Mr.. Sanborn one of the leading
newspapers of Boston said the next
day: IT was naturally supposed that
he United States authorities would
proceed in dignihed and manly way
to test the question of jurisdiction.
But they saw fit to take another
course. - The sneaking attempt
to lddnap one of their fellow-citizens
aroused the indignation of the people
OF Concord" And that exactly ex-
pressed the sentiment of vastly the
greater number OF Massachusetts cit
izenS, without much regard to their
opinion as to the merit of the Iohn
Brown raid. And there were MANY
expressions of the opinion that Old
Concord of Revolutionary fame was
the last place in the country i'm which
to have tried the game! In my boy
hood, in that day, a sort of halo
seemed to float around the names
Bunker Hill, Lexington and Con
cord, which were Shibboleths for
N'aN AAAA pay lC MdSSdCnu-
sets Supreme Court has always en-
Joyed a reputation of the highest char
acter, and almost always the United
States Supreme Court has on its bench
one or more raised from that state.
And when that Supreme Court unan-
imously gave decision against the
legality OF a U. S. Senate Sergeant
alarms deputizing a U. S. Marshal 10
act Tor him, It was at once accepted
as Just and equitable.
Mr.. Sanborn, as | said some weeks
ago. writes a weekly letter to the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican; il is
named the Literary Letter From
Boston" And l wish all your read.
ers could let this old Sage lead them
lliheld; but they would often find that
they were far a6eld. and in waters
deeper than they usually tried to swim
IN. '"'i''
! have just read two books wholly
different but both h., Enr,l;sL ,,,:.y