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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1848 -
THE NORTH STAR
Rochester, New York
December 15, 1848
ABOLITIONISM IN IOWA. - A slave belonging to a person named
Hughes, residing in St. Louis, Mo., escaped the other day, and
was traced to Bloomington, Iowa, where he had obtained employment
as cook of the American House. His owner appealed to the Courts
and arrested him, whereupon the landlord of the American and a
number of citizens took part with the slave; their efforts were
stoutly resisted by Mr. Freeman, the master's agent, who
succeeded in retaining the boy. While thus engaged, Mr. Freeman
was arrested by a peace officer, and taken before Justice Cloud
to answer a charge of assault and battery upon the landlord. Upon
this charge he was fined $20 and costs. After an investigation of
his right to arrest the negro, he was a runaway, and that Mr. F.
was duly authorized to deliver him to his owner, the humane
Justice discharged the boy, and decided against his being taken.
This decision was hailed with applause, the negro warmly
congratulated by many persons present, and to cap the climax,
walked arm in arm to the American House with a respectable
physician. - N.Y. Evangelist.
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]
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THE NORTH STAR
Rochester, New York
July 14, 1848
INDIAN MURDER. - We learn, that a man known here as "Pat
Murphy," was killed and scalped by the Indians, a few days
since, somewhere on the Maquoketa River, Iowa. - Galena
Jeffersonian.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2006]