Details and misadventures of an African visitor to Baltimore. Black musicians from Maryland visited Chambersburg recently, and the Spirit 's editors claim that they returned to Maryland more satisfied with their condition than that of their free black brethren in Pennsylvania. The Repository reminds the Spirit that free blacks in Pennsylvania did have the right a few years ago, and they voted for the Democratic party. The Whigs took away their right to vote, so as to take away some support of locofocoism in Pennsylvania. The Spirit mockingly describes the celebration of the First of August, which commemorates the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies.
Article draws extensive details from the coroner's report.