Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — Spirit of the South. [ARTICLE]

Spirit of the South.

Driven Out.—We learn from a reliable source, that two well known citizens of Lafayette, Freeman Patt and Henry Frounfelter, were driven out of Louisania a few days ago, on suspicion of entertaining abolition sentiments. The two were brick masons and had gone there to build a sugar house for a planter living sixty miles from New Orleans. After having worked abont two weeks, they were waited on by the planter and informed that their services were no longer required. They enquired the cause of dismissal, but received no satisfaction, further than to leave as soon as possible. It being near evening, and the steamboat landing about five miles from the plantation, they requested the privilege of remaining until morning, which was refused. They then proceeded to the landing, escorted by a number of persons armed to the teeth, who waited until a boat came along, when they were hurried on board and admonished to leave the State and not return. The hint wrs taken, and the two gentlemen arrived here on Wednesday night, thoroughly disgusted with life at the South.— Lafayete Journal. A Kingsville (S. C.) correspondent of the Petersburg Express, under date of December 17, says: ’ There passed through this city to-day a tarred and feathered Quaker, named Thompson, who, though getting his bread from Southern hands and his employment from Southern men, ventured while at work upon the Capitol at Columbia, to utter anti-slavery sentiments and sympathy with old John Brown. Benjamin F. Winter, a blacksmith, has been ordered to leave the town of Hamilton, Harris county, Ga., by a meeting of citizens, for avowing Abolition and incendiary senti- >. ments. A man named J Gennochie, an Italian, was arrested at Petersburg, on Monday, for expressing the incendiary sentiment that “in- ; stead of John Brown being hung, he "Ought to have been released and made President of the United States.” Dr. Mulroe of S. C., the owner of two plantations and negroes sufficient to work them, was arrested a few days ago, as a suspicious character, by a Vigilance Committee, in Eufala, Ala, The Doctor was peddling plows, and it was hard to believe that so wealthy a man would turn "traveling Yankee.” A friend who knew the Doctor at home, happened to be in town, however, and hearing of the difficulty he was in, went to the place where the committee were trying him. The Doctor, overcome with his feelings, burst into tears. As a finale, all pledged themselves to sell as many plows as they could.