Record Data
Source citation
"The Maryland Legislature and the Underground Railroad," New York Herald, January 19, 1860, p. 10: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Herald
Newspaper: Headline
The Maryland Legislature and the Underground Railroad
Newspaper: Page(s)
10
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Baltimore, Jan. 18 1860
In the Legislature today resolutions were introduced offering a reward for the arrest of Thomas Garrett, of Wilmington, Delaware, in order to have him tried on the charge of stealing slaves from the citizens of Maryland. The resolutions were discussed and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Various propositions for the reward at from $2,000 to $5,000.
