The Underground Railroad eBook

William Still
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,446 pages of information about The Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad eBook

William Still
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,446 pages of information about The Underground Railroad.
brewers bestowed upon Haynau.  The escape was very fortunate every way.  Hughes and Knight have since been twice arrested and put under bonds of $10,000 (making $30,000 in all), charged with a conspiracy to kidnap and abduct William Craft, a peaceable citizen of Massachusetts, etc.  Bail was entered by Hamilton Willis, of Willis & Co., 25 State street, and Patrick Riley, U.S.  Deputy Marshal.
The following (says the Chronotype), is a verbatim et literatim copy of the letter sent by Knight to Craft, to entice him to the U.S.  Hotel, in order to kidnap him.  It shows, that the school-master owes Knight more “service and labor” than it is possible for Craft to: 

        BOSTON, Oct. 22, 1850, 11 Oclk P.M.

Wm. Craft—­Sir—­I have to leave so Eirley in the moring that I cold not call according to promis, so if you want me to carry a letter home with me, you must bring it to the United States Hotel to morrow and leave it in box 44, or come your self to morro eavening after tea and bring it. let me no if you come your self by sending a note to box 44 U.S.  Hotel so that I may know whether to wate after tea or not by the Bearer.  If your wife wants to see me you cold bring her with you if you come your self.

        JOHN KNIGHT.

        P.S.  I shall leave for home eirley a Thursday moring. 
        J.K.

    At a meeting of colored people, held in Belknap Street Church,
    on Friday evening, the following resolutions were unanimously
    adopted: 

        Resolved, That God willed us free; man willed us
        slaves.  We will as God wills; God’s will be done.

Resolved, That our oft repeated determination to resist oppression is the same now as ever, and we pledge ourselves, at all hazards, to resist unto death any attempt upon our liberties.
Resolved, That as South Carolina seizes and imprisons colored seamen from the North, under the plea that it is to prevent insurrection and rebellion among her colored population, the authorities of this State, and city in particular, be requested to lay hold of, and put in prison, immediately, any and all fugitive slave-hunters who may be found among us, upon the same ground, and for similar reasons.
Spirited addresses, of a most emphatic type, were made by Messrs. Remond, of Salem, Roberts, Nell, and Allen, of Boston, and Davis, of Plymouth.  Individuals and highly respectable committees of gentlemen have repeatedly waited upon these Georgia miscreants, to persuade them to make a speedy departure from the city.  After promising to do so, and repeatedly falsifying their word, it is said that they left on Wednesday afternoon, in the express train for New York, and thus (says the Chronotype), they have “gone off with their ears full of fleas, to fire the solemn word for the dissolution of
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