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The Mayor will have before him this morning two negroes, lately arrested here who were expelled from Manchester, named Richard and Jordan Smith. The people of Manchester, who ought certainly to know, regard them as dangerous fellows to the peace of a slaveholding community. In the possession of Richard Smith was found a number of letters from abolition localities, plainly showing his sympathy with that vile class of persons. These were seized by the Manchester authorities and detained. As a sight of them would throw some insight on a case now pending against them before the Mayor, he requested a look, which one of the Manchester authorities promised to gratify this morning, by the production of the documents. May-be the revelations therein contained will serve to get the Smiths into the service of the State. Things tend in that direction.
The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 14, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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