Record Data
Source citation
“Fighting Candidates for Congress,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, October 14, 1858, p. 2: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
Fayetteville Observer
Newspaper: Headline
Fighting Candidates for Congress
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
3
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.
Fighting Candidates for Congress. – At a political meeting recently held in Plymouth, Illinois, some words passed between Isaac N. Morris, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fifth district, and Jackson Grimshaw, the Republican candidate, when the latter invited Mr. Morris out to fight. He declined, and applied some opprobrious remark to his antagonist, when Mr. Grimshaw rushed towards him, but was seized by some friends, and a large bowie knife taken from his possession.