Hunting Of Abolitionists

It will bc seen from ihe followin narraiive from the Philanlhropist, mat the Slávehoiders have made the huntfng ofnbolhionists as much a regular titule as the hunting of slaves. In the North are nt least 50,000 men, who at thé south would be in precisely ihe condition of Mr. Honkins - men of ali prufessions, conduions and empioyments. Is 11 to be expected that they ehould be ardenily devoted to a Uuion cí the Sinles undcr which they cannot peaceably visit one halfpfjheir naiivej land? Mr. M. W. Ilopkina is a respecinble cilizen oL Cwlumbüs, Ohio, an iirüst by profession, a man, so lar aa we know. ol grëal amiability and moral wprih. [n JN'ovemlior l;if,t, by the advice of his phyvician, he lelt Columbus to spend the winler in Louiaiana on account of his health. A few months before leavinji, be became acquainted with James Clark, c-f Jackson, Eiist Feliciana parish, La., who cordialiy itivited bim to cali at his residence,iniimating tbat he would give him employment os an arlist, and reconimendefl the town of Jacksoa as a healthy place fur invalids. He assured him also that lbo fact of his being an abo'monist would uot endanger him, so long as he remnincd tilent conceiuirig it, Hiere. Mr. liopkius arrived at Jackson about the in-d'.Üe pf December. Flye or six weeks after Mr. Clark returned, and without havíng eeeíi Mr. ÍI. viï-ued a groggery, and gave out that ihcre was an abolitionist in lown. A mob soon ci)llecteri, nnd depatched two of tbeir buU lies to Mr. H , who was quietly engaged at his work, wiih orders tu brinji him foi;h, nd ansv r fur the crime of thinking, (not sain) that slavery was a sin. Atlerseveral viulent speeches. Mr. II. by permissiun, addresced ihe meeting, and i'ranlily told them that he believed slavery io bc a sin and a curse, bui, in accordanco wiih the adviee of Mr. Clark, who stood before them, and who hud invited him to that place, he had said nothing about it, vvhilo there,and dit! not wish to disturb their peculiar institutions. His only ol ject was to spend the win'er there quietly, aolely fur the benefit of his health. líe produced written teeiirnonials lo his chararier, from ihe North, and one from a gentleman ot established character in the vicinity. Mr. ILigerman, the Presbytenan clergyman, wiih whorn he had beun lodging, certiiiod that Mr. H. h.iü btliaved mail respecis both as a gchticíinán and a Christian - thal he tiad said nothuig that could lead to the belief thathe was an ab oliïionisf .Alter several speeches and violent threats, a resoluiion was cüered, ihat Mr . 11. le ordered to leave the place by three o'clock, P. AI. lt was then about noon. - Mr. Catlet, the Mayor, suid, thai be wan ted every abolitionist driven nol only out, ofi)3 SiíUth but out of tho Uniled States, uad Hito Cireat Briuiu, where they betongeel, bui ho (lid nol wisli (be man to go back to the Nrth, and report that he had Leen lieated like a savage, especially as he stood before thein us a. peaeeable gen tleman. lle would thereiore move lo to modify the resoluiion, as to give him time to close nis business, tven if he should be oblijred to'slay till the monnng. Loud ihreats, however, wero made against uny house that ëhould give him n night's iodjj ing, and he was allowed only Uil 5 o'clotk toget ready tbr leu'yiñjf! lío Jolt íor Bay'oó Sara, 12 miiës, ihe nearest landing place on the Mississippi, where he arrived about bed time, ibliowed by some of the inob, who seemed bent on sinring uj) ünoiher inob to lynch him before he eould gel beyoni iheir reach. Mr. Markï, the landlord, being ífc formeel of all the circumstances by Mr. Hag erman, who wilh t noble disregard for hitown safety, had accornpanied the perse, cuted man, promised to prolect him. This prevented disturbanco through the nighl. but the nexi morhing, i band of twenty ruflians collected in the bar room, expressing a determination lo lynch him at all hazards. The landlord, with a gencrous courage, at once interposed, &. announced to them that he would spill bis own blbod before he would suffer ono of them to touch bis guest. Ilis resolute bearing inlimidated them, nnd Mr. Hopkins owes it to bis efi'iiis nnd these of Mr. Hagerrnaïi that he is now suíe iu a free State. Wc saw him a few days aince in Cincinnali, and the facta stated above are furniühed by himself. There is another fact whicnhe hnú whileiu the Souihrom ihe best authority. It is a horrible fact, but there is DQlhing wonderful in it. VVe wish the people oí the free States to weigh it well. lt id, that standing committees areappointed in most or all of the principal towns iu the Slave States, eppecially on the Mississip pi, whose dwty i: is to coüect and keep s list of the pames of Northern abo'ilionists; to search the baggago of travelers, and tavern rèiatérs, for the name of every man f rom the North who may stop in any of those towns, and if it be down on the list, lo report the caso at once as a fit one for he application ofLjnch law!And under provocation so brutal, so in' fernal, the freemen of ihe Norih ai.' pected to be as fervent fis ever in their ! tachment to a Union, which, whüe it protects the meanest dog from ilie Souihwlio ' barks on ihe track of a fuoittve in the ; Norih, leaves them tö the teiuler mercies of a bloody slaveholding inquisition.