Show AGEORGIA aa ORGIA mon MOB A young man from massachusetts 1 went to Gaines borough georgia and being asked if he was an abolitionist answered that lie he was ile he was advised to leave the town and be he started for the railroad depot in order to do so but a mob headed by the sheriff of the place pursued and caught him rode him on a rail carried by biggers nig gers blacked his face and sold him at itic auction tion for a ni oger ager and then took him to a drinking house and made the nicy biggers gers hug and kiss him they warned him mt that they would kill him if he lifted a finger to resist and the sheriff She rifT though the victim did not resist aimed a pistol at him and would have shot him but for the interference of a bystander from another state no act whatever was alleged against the young man and when his baggage was waa searched no abolition document was discovered except capt a single number of the new york tribune a paper which is extensively taken in every So southern athern state in the union bunder such circumstances the acts sets of the mob were outrageous and infamous if every Nor Norl thren hren man who dares to say N in the south that he is a free soller is to be mobbed and sold it auction how long may it be before any southerner who shall presume in reply to a question to avow himself in the borth a pro slavery man will probably be subjected to similar treatment to be sure the cases case are not exactly parallel but when did a roused spirit of retaliation ever stop to run nice parallel parallels sP louisville ky journal |