A WORD OR TWO MORE ABOUT ALBERT HAZLETT.
I left Lieut. Hazlett prostrate with fatigue and hunger, the night
on which I went to Chambersburg. The next day, he went into the town
boldly, carrying his blanket, rifle and revolver, and proceeded to
the house where Kagi had boarded. The reward was then out for John E.
Cook’s arrest, and suspecting him to be Cook, Hazlett was pursued. He
was chased from the house where he was by the officers, dropping his
rifle in his flight. When he got to Carlisle, so far from receiving
kindness from the citizens of his native State,--he was from Northern
Pennsylvania,--he was arrested and lodged in jail, given up to the
authorities of Virginia, and shamefully executed by them,--his
identity, however, never having been proven before the Court. A report
of his arrest at the time reads as follows:--
“The man arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the insurrection
was brought before Judge Graham on a writ of _habeas corpus_ to-day.
Judge Watts presented a warrant from Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania,
upon a requisition from the Governor of Virginia for the delivery of
the fugitive named Albert Hazlett. There was no positive evidence to
identify the prisoner.”
Hazlett was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff. The Judge appointed
a further hearing, and issued subpœnas for witnesses from Virginia, &c.
No positive evidence in that last hearing was adduced, and yet Governor
Packer ordered him to be delivered up; and the pro-slavery authorities
made haste to carry out the mandate.