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THE CHRISTIANA OUTRAGE—The last number of the Philadelphia North American makes the following statement:
The remainder of the officers who were on duty at Christiana returned home yesterday afternoon. The country was thoroughly scoured for the distance of thirty miles around, and all suspected parities arrested. The negro settlements are nearly all completely deserted. The officers were obliged to turn loose hogs, cattle, fowls, and other penned stock to prevent them from famishing. Lt. Ellis brought in custody a young colored fellow named John Roberts, arrested in a cornfield some six miles from the scene of the murder, who is a highly important witness against Scarlet, the white man, now in Moyamensing prison on a charge of treason. The officers also brought to the city a number of murderous looking weapons found in the negro huts.
The prompt and effectual measures which have been taken by the Pennsylvania authorities and by the U.S. authorities for the punishment of the perpetrators of the outrage at Christiana will no doubt prevent the occurrence of any similar atrocity for a long time to come. The law will be executed in its sternest rigor.
Who, that sees the punishment which has already overtaken the many participators in that outrage, fugitives as they are now for their lives, will dare hereafter to withstand, to the shedding of blood, the execution of the fugitive slave law?