NEWS
Newark
Daily Advertiser
September 15, 1841
scans from newspaper collection
of
Ruth
Adams-Battle
The city
continues quiet. The police and military were on duty again the night
before
last. Yesterday the Committee of Safety examined and discharged many,
perhaps
most of the negroes in prison, exacting bail for good behavior under
the
act of 1807, from those who had not before given bail, and upon whom
the
law imposed the giving security. No more fugitive slaves have been
found
- nor has any one yet been charged with any criminal offence. We
have not been able to learn any thing to be depended on, as to the
number,
if any, killed, nor the number or the condition of the wounded.
It
is now said that the boys wounded, and that one of them is not yet out
of danger - and that they were in the beginning of the affray, but were
wounded after the return of the negroes to the second offset, which
cannot
be justified. The story of the violence upon the negro women, we
have taken some pains to enquire into, and believe it is unfounded.
The Mayor
was yesterday examining the complaints against those arrested as in the
mob. He had committed some 12 or 15 for trial, and discharged four, the
last we heard from the Court House.
We annex
the Governor's Proclamation, issued on Sunday evening - not before
having
a copy:
Proclamation by the Governor
©2003, 2004 by Linda
Boorom