The Ferryman at Sullivan Ferry, Hancock County, is a thorough Union man, and allows no Secesh talk on hoard his craft. In the Ellsworth American he relates an incident of recent occurrence, of an ex-office holder, last year a Breckenridge man, who was crossing the briny billows in his boat, and garulous from spiritual influence, or not fully understanding the difference between a loyal people and a people of a semi-secession cast, “let on” rather uncautiously in favor of the rebels Says the ferryman: “I very politely informed him that my boat carried only loyal passengers, and if he persisted in upholding treasonable rebels, and in decrying the Union cause, I would swamp the boat and him with it, in the middle of the river. He shut up shop at once.”
The Portland Daily Press, Portland, ME