(Jackson) Mississippian, “The Oberlin Slave Rescuers,” May 27, 1859

    Source citation
    “The Oberlin Slave Rescuers,” (Jackson) Mississippian, May 27, 1859, p. 2: 7.
    Newspaper: Publication
    (Jackson) Mississippian
    Newspaper: Headline
    Jackson Semi Weekly Mississippian
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    7
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    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 OBERLIN SLAVE RESCUERS. The case of these criminals have drawn forth a letter from the Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, in which he indulges in most inflammatory language, as will be seen by the following extract:

    “In disregarding this law (fugitive slave) the prisoners did right. Their error consisted in sparing the lives of the slave catchers. Those pirates should have been delivered over to the colored men and consigned to the doom of pirates, which should have been speedily executed. You are aware that this is the doctrine which I proclaimed in Congress. I adhere to it. Had the prisoners executed the slave catchers promptly, it would have taught the administration a lesson not soon to be forgotten. We should have been no more troubled with that class of miscreants.

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