It was most unjust; if I was a lunatic it was unjust; if I was not, it was none the less so. Strange, that in a free land, in a thickly settled and civilized community, such barbarous and inhuman acts are allowed by those in authority.
If we can learn, experience and suffer so much in one short hour, what think you I learned, suffered and experienced in ten long years!
MOSES SWAN.
RECOMMENDATION.
First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls.
Greeting—This certifies that Brother Moses Swan is a member in our church in good and regular standing, and has been for forty years, and this is given him as a traveling letter.
LEWIS CRANDELL, Clerk.
Hoosick, September 30, 1873.