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69 slaves in jail, 1850

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ItemID
wmsl096
IDEntry
7910
Creator
Weekly Casket
Date
1850-02-16
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1800-1864
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FOR THE BALMY SOUTH.

The Hagerstown Jail is filled with Negroes, only sixty-nine having been deposited in it, on Wednesday last. They are the property of the late Judge John Buchanan, and are for sale. The fanatics of the North ought to purchase them.— But interest precedes phylantrophy ; does it not you men of all words and no meaning ?