Kidnapping the Enemy by McBurney Christian M.;

Author:McBurney, Christian M.; [McBurney, Christian M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westholme Publishing

Beginning in 1821, sympathetic reports of Barton's plight began to circulate in northern newspapers. One of them, written in 1822 by the son of one of Barton's old war acquaintances, expressed horror that such an elderly and noble patriot was spending his last days in debtor's prison. Upon first meeting Barton in Danville, the son recorded the following:

The old gentleman appeared out of health and soon informed me that he was a prisoner confined with the limits for debt. “A prisoner!,” I exclaimed, “where is your family and friends, where is your country?” In a few moments he related the history of those transactions which led to his misfortune. The tears flowed down his manly cheeks—his sensibility had almost deprived him of utterance, when he exclaimed, “never will I leave this confinement, until my country redresses my wrongs. I will sooner die here, than become a victim of oppression and fraud.”

Recovering himself, he observed that his honor was dear to him, and that now, when age had almost ruined him for the grave to be forgotten by that country, whose cause he had so nobly defended, and whose liberties he had so conspicuously contributed to support, was the bitterest of all his troubles…. He was far removed from his affectionate family—oppressed by the iron grasp of judicial insensibility—a victim of fraud and caprice.77

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