Record Data
Source citation
“Slave Property Protected in New Mexico,” Memphis (TN) Appeal, February 27, 1859, p. 2: 1.
Original source
Santa Fe (NM) Gazette
Newspaper: Publication
Memphis Daily Appeal
Newspaper: Headline
Slave Property Protected in New Mexico
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, 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.
SLAVE PROPERTY PROTECTED IN NEW MEXICO. – We have received the Santa Fe Gazette of the 29th ult., from which we take the following items: “We are proud to announce that the House of Representatives of the Territorial Legislature of New Mexico yesterday passed, with but one dissenting voice, a very stringent bill “providing for the protection of property in slaves in the Territory,” which was sent to the Senate, where it will pass by a like very large majority. Let the statesmen and politicians of the Union, North and South, stick a pin there!
