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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,
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