Record Data
Source citation
“Negro Excitement in Newburg,” Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, March 1, 1860, p. 1: 6.
Original source
Cleveland (OH) Plaindealer
Newspaper: Publication
Carlisle American Volunteer
Newspaper: Headline
Negro Excitement in Newburgh
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
6
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Joanne Williams, 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.
On Tuesday a man visited Newburgh and endeavored to get an insane negro woman into the asylum there. For some reason her admission was declined, and the man proceeded to the village hotel with the woman. A rumor spread through the town that the woman was a fugitive slave, and that the man was her owner, and was about taking her back to slavery.
A large crowd, headed by the most prominent Abolitionists of the place, congregated at the hotel. The man kept perfectly cool during the excitement, respectfully refusing to answer any of the numerous questions that were put to him by the crowd. He said, however, that the woman was crazy, and that he was anxious to place her in a proper retreat. This was not satisfactory. The crowd said they must liberate her, and they at length made themselves so disagreeable that the man took out his well-lined pocket-book, and said that he would give any man in the crowd, who could give satisfactory evidence of his responsibility and kindness, $200 to take the woman off his hands. Nobody took up the offer and the man left. We understand that he is from Kentucky, and that the woman is a slave. – Cleveland Plaindealer, 16th.
A large crowd, headed by the most prominent Abolitionists of the place, congregated at the hotel. The man kept perfectly cool during the excitement, respectfully refusing to answer any of the numerous questions that were put to him by the crowd. He said, however, that the woman was crazy, and that he was anxious to place her in a proper retreat. This was not satisfactory. The crowd said they must liberate her, and they at length made themselves so disagreeable that the man took out his well-lined pocket-book, and said that he would give any man in the crowd, who could give satisfactory evidence of his responsibility and kindness, $200 to take the woman off his hands. Nobody took up the offer and the man left. We understand that he is from Kentucky, and that the woman is a slave. – Cleveland Plaindealer, 16th.