Record Data
Source citation
"Insanity of Gerrit Smith", Charleston (SC) Mercuy, November 10, 1859, p. 2: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
Charleston Mercury
Newspaper: Headline
Insanity of Gerrit Smith
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
INSANITY OF GERRIT SMITH - The telegraph announces that GERRIT SMITH, the abolition chief of New York, who was so clearly inculpated in the design of the Harper's Ferry raid, has been placed in the Utica Insane Asylum. No clearer illustration of the old Latin proverb, "Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad," has occurred for many years.