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A slave Enticed from her Master in Minnesota Begs her way back to Mississippi.

‘ --Last summer, a negro servant, named Eliza Winston, the property of Colonel Chrisman, of Mississippi, was taken from her master, while temporarily sojourning near Minneapolis, for the benefit of the health of his family. The servant was induced to leave a kind and indulgent master, and an invalid mistress, by the solicitations and promises of certain notorious Abolitionists, who, soon after her rescue, threw her upon the charity of the community. A fitting commentary on this whole business we find in the Sank Rapids Era, a Republican journal, which states that "a letter had been received at St. Anthony, from Col. Chrisman, stating that Eliza Winston, rescued last summer from her master, Col. Chrisman, near Minneapolis, has begged her way back to her master in Mississippi, and is again at her old home in the South, minus everything save a very thankful heart." The Era adds: "If this report is true, of which we have no doubt, what must be now thought of those affidavits alleged to have been made by her.--Can any one now tell which Eliza prefers -- the South or the North--Slavery or Freedom? St. Paul Dem.,Jan. 20.

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The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 1, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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