UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

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The
as we suppose for the purpose of inciting our
slaves and free negro population to
Huff, E. H. Pottle,E. A. Brinkley,John C. Jen-
George W. Dickson,A. B. Rogers, and
Description.
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KEY TO UNCLE TOM S CABIN. 189
said Nathan Bird Watson
hazel eyes, black
is a man of dark complexion,
Mr. Cornutt appealedfor redress to the
hair, and wears a heavy beard ; measures five
law. The result of his
feet eleven and three-quarter inches ; has a
appeal isthus stated
quick
step, and walks with his toes inclined in the Richmond
inward,
(Va.)Times,quotedby
and a littlestooped-shouldered ; now wears
the
a
National Era :
checked coat and white pants; says he is twentythree
years of age, but will pass for twenty-five
or thirty.
On motion,the meeting was adjourned.
Thomas F. Parsons,Chairman.
William H. Pilcher,Secretary.
This may
that kind of editorialhalloo which
man
be regarded as a specimenof
to rouse and start in pursuit of a
the bloodhounds of the mob.
The
is copiedby the National
following
from the Richmond Times :
LYNCH
law.
On the 13th inst. the vigilance committee of
the county of Grayson,in this state, arrested a
The clerk of GraysonCounty Court having,on
the 1st inst. (the first day of Judge Brown's
term) tendered his resignation, and there being
no applicant for the office, and it beingpublicly
stated at the bar that no one would acceptsaid
appointment, JudgeBrown found himself unable
is
to
designed
proceed with business,and accordingly ad-
the court until the firstdayof the next
man named John Cornutt
[afriend and follower
of Bacon, the Ohio abolitionist], and, after examining
the evidence againsthim, requiredhim
committees of vigilance.
to renounce his abolitionsentiments. This Cornutt
We have a letterfrom a crediblecorrespondent
refused to do ; thereupon,
was stripped, in Carroll county,
tied to a tree,and whipped. After receiving
which givesto the aflaira still
a
more seriousaspect. Trusting
dozen stripes, he caved in,and promised, not only
that there may be
to recant,but to sell hia property in the some error about it,we have no comments to make
county until the facts are known with certainty
[consisting of land and negroes], and leave the
Ọur
state. Great
correspondent, whose letter bears date the 13th
excitement prevailedthroughout
the country, and the inst.,
WythevilleRepublicanof the says
:
20th instant states
of Graysonwere
persons.
On
that the vigilance committee
in hot pursuitof,other obnoxious
thisoutragethe WythevilleRepublican
makes the followingcomments :
Layingaside the white man, humanity to the
insurrection negro, the slave, demands that these abolitionists
and insubordination.
be dealt with summarily, and above the law.
The meetinghavingbeen organized, Wm. Gibson,
On Saturday, the 13th, we learn that the committee
Esq., offered the following resolution,which,
of vigilance of that county țo the number
after various expressions of opinion, was unanimously
of near two hundred, had before them one John
adoptedțo wit :
Cornutt,a citizen, a friend and backer of Bacon,
Resolved, That a committee of ten be appointedand
promulgator of his abolition doctrines. They
by the chairman for the purpose of making arrangements
required him to renounce abolitionism, and promise
to expel Nathan Bird Watson, an
avowed abolitionist, who has been in our villagehim, tied him to a tree,and appealedto him
for three or four weeks,by twelve o'clock this day, again to renounce, and promiseobedience to the
by the Georgia Railroad cars ; and that it shall laws. He refused. The rod was brought;one,
be the dutyof said committee to escort the said two, three,and on to twelve, on the bare back,
Watson to Camak, for the purpose of shipmen to and he cried "
out; he promised and, more, he
his native land.
said he would sell and leave.
The followinggentlemen were named as that This Mr. Cornutt owns land, negroes and
committee :
money, say fifteen to twenty thousand dollars.
William Gibson, E. Cody,J. M. Roberts,J. B. He has a wife, but no voliitechildren. He has
nings, among his negroes
some born on his farm, of
mixed blood. He is believed to be a friend of the
obedience to the laws. He refused. They stripped
Dr. R. W. Hubert.
negro, even to amalgamation. He intends to set
On motion, the chairman was added to that his negroes free,and make them his heirs. It is
committee.
hoped he will retire to Ohio, and there finishhis
It was, on motion,
operations of amalgamation and emancipation.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting, The vigilance committees were after another of
with a minute description of the said Watson, be Bacon's men on Thursday; we have not heard
forwarded to the publishers of the Augusta papers,
whether they caughthim, nor what followed.
with the request that they, and all other publishers
There are not more than six of his followers that
of papers in the slave-holding states,publish
adhere ; the rest have renounced him, and are
the same for a sufficientlengthof time. much outraged at his imposition.
term.
MORE TROUBLE IN GRAYSON.
journed
of one Jonathan Roberts to any
one of the
Immediatelyupon the adjournmentof the
court, a publicmeetingof the citizens of the
county was held, when resolutions were adopted
expressive of the determination of the people to
maintain the stand recently taken ; exhorting the
committees of vigilance to increased activity in
ferreting out all persons
tinctured with abo-
in the county, and offering a reward of
one hundred dollars for the apprehension and
litionism
delivery
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I learn,from an authentic source, that the
Circuit Court that was to sit in Graysoncounty
during last week was dissolved by violence. The
circumstances were these. After the execution
of the negroes in that county șome time ago,
who had been excited to rebellion by a certain
Methodist preacher, by the name of Bacon,of