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Letter From Virginia

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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We copy, by perinission. a few linea of a letter from a nonhern gentleman, residing temporarily in Virginia. It is dated April üóih - it miglit not be for the safety of the vvriter to mention the name of the town. - Esscx Transcript. ':You can scarcely hnvc nny idea of the animosity existing here towaids abolitinniíis. I know a deacon of a Baptist church, who told me he would ehoot an abolitionist, if he anw one. crossing his plantntion. It was reponed a few days since that one had heen arrested. and put in jail in an adjoining crun:y. 'Hang, hang him, without judge or jury!' was the universal cry. - All were eager to witness the amusing secne. - I hare heard refined young ladies say that they u-ould like to see cvery abolitionist hung - they eay a rope would be too good for them, but tha'i they deserve to be hung with a grape-vine to a stadale, and to remain there till the birds devour them. AH I say is, from such ladies. good Lord deliver me. I pity the young inan who unites hia destiny with such specimens of htimanity - don't you? H. A. Wise spoke laat week a few miles from here - he carries every thing befare hiui - he makes the people bcüeve that blnck is white, or white black, just as best suitshis interest - on the slump, they say, he surpnsses nny thing in this or any other State - he tells the people he has not changed and, what is more, makes them believe it too."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News