Posted on 08/02/2020 7:20:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
LEAVENWORTH. Kansas. Wednesday, July 25, 1860 Our colored population has of late been in almost constant alarm, in consequence of several cases of kidnapping. The unfortunate victims have been seized at night by armed men, and secretly conveyed into Missouri, and there sold to slavetraders going South, or lodged in jail until a favorable opportunity should occur to send them down the river to the Southern market. Within the last week there have been taken from the heart of this -- the largest city in the Territory -- no less than these young men. Two of them are now in jail at St. Joseph, Mo.; the other one, no trace has yet been found of his whereabouts; parties of friends have been out searching for him in vain. It is supposed that he was assaulted late in the evening while on his way home, gagged, put into a close vehicle, conveyed over into Missouri, and there secreted until the search for him is suspended, and then he will be shipped down the river. An attempt was made in Lawrence only a few nights since to kidnap a woman, but she raised the alarm; the people were aroused, the kidnappers escaped, and the town was preserved from the lasting disgrace of having a human being taken from it by force and sold into Slavery.
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The New York Tribune from 1842-1922 has been digitized and is available free of charge on the website of the Library of Congress. The years 1842-March of 1866 are here...
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/issues/
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