New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-13
The Christiana Tragedy,

Come ondouce Of The y. Y 1ubunc
PHhAoELrHiA, Friday, Sept H. 1851
DEAR SIR | write in great haste, eager
10 correct, as have Tie means of dong m meas
urc the accounts Just published M our morning pa
pers of the boddy battle whichtook place yesterday
morning a, ChrIstiana, m tins state, % miles TINS
tins side OF Lancaster trom an Individual lust
nOm that place, We learn th3t STAKEHOLDER Win
ms son ana nephew, from Mary land, accompanied
hv | : officers of tins city and Baltimore, went 10
,hriSlana after two fugitive slaves. lhc bltcks
having received notice OF their coming gathered,
considerable number of them. ~ the house whchthe
slave catching party were expected 10 VISIT. Inc door
MAS enrd and the bat Ks retired 10 the upper part
Of the house When the slave holder aud ms compa-
a, approached, they were warned on. ptrier looh
place the slave holder declaring. As II Is sand and
believed, d" VIII 60 to n or have my slaves. The
door was broken IN. a horn was sounded oui OF one
OF the upper windows after an interval company
of blacks, armed, gathered ON the spot. and the ne.
goes m the house made a rush down Stars and
crowded the whites out. Here the pdrlcy was re-
Sumcd, the spokesman Of ihc blacks iellng the
white men 10 90 away they were determined,
he sand. 10 die rather than 20 INTO slavery, or
allow an, one OF their number TO he taken.
lie declared moreover that thc blacks would
not IRE, but If the whites fired thcN were dead men
shortly, INST the nephew, then ihe Sid'c-o"h'i ana
ms son fired ItNoiVeT>. Moundlug number OF TIE
blacks. but not seuouSlN,-Cnc utn had ms ear per
tora,ed b, ball The clothes of others were pierced
ana tom, but The blacks said ai,orwad "ihe LORD
whites WAS returned The slave owner tell dead,
and his son very dangerously woun ed. The whites
then returned. One Of the l :. officers summoned
the posse, but IN YAM. some oi lht ueshpoi>,
QuackerS and Anti-SlaNerV persons. went and took
up the wounded man ana earned nun To one OF Their
homes, where, while they told hlm ln Quaker phrase,
that they had no unity with hm in his acts, and
abhorrcd the wicked business m which he had been
ENGAGED. Every attention was paid hiu. Medical
and Instantly sent Tor The effect OF th> treatment upon
the young man, IS our informant told Us. may easily
ta ttt.as l4.a .r.H q D. nsa "A
correct The impression people had al ms home about
The AbOltOm>t>. The Doctor pronounced ms
Wounds mortal
People soon gathered m large numbers ~ this
scene o. blood The excitement was immense
VpmonS and feelings contacted, of course but there
Mas SlOug feeling IN behalf OF the olaCA>. Whue
the crowd Were talking, and during the iormeni,
TWO blacks ,hIlck makers passed. uae OF the crowd
exclaimed "ThcIc 20 Two fellows who should
be shot $50 The black men paused and faced ihe
crowd ami SAID calmly Sometnng 20 tins effect
Here We are shoot Us, 4 YOU choose We are
suffering people any how. God made uS black We
can't help that sheet Us II YOU VIII The reVul-
son was instantaneous ana strong and IA, man Who
had muliercd a wOTd against The blacks would have
been Knocked down on the spot
Ii Is no, true that the blacks had been counSeled
70 resist. They had been repeatedly ADVISED not 70
tSht, but 10 dee to Canada
oQr informant. an aged and eminent member OF
Tie Society OF FneHd> does not profess 10 give The
testimony " an eyewitness. lie had seen the dead
eodN Of The Stakeholder tie knew the people who
tVNA charge of the Wounded man. he knew thAi the
blacks had been counSo Cd against resistance Inc
uendS Of the slave and The fugitive IN that nelghoor-
hood are QusserS. Further than tins the above ac-
count Is the account of TTSlOCnt IN that vicinity,
We sNes what l. the most prob o.e truth OF the
case, According 10 the statements OF those IN the
AelghboIhoOd best acquainted with the cuc0m-
NSsceS, In few DAYS 7, = 10 Re hoped that the
ra'h VIII he a>ceuNncd With more certainty. Al
though BY SoHe questioned al hTsi Which hred hySi.
t settled hehe al The place Is that The whites hTed
as' as stated above.
YourS. for truths SAKE, W X
In addition 10 the facts contained IN the above
statement. We learn from another correspondent.
That the warrant N the case was issued by Com
missioner lngraham OF Philadelphia, and that
ne person deput,d 10 execute II was John Egan.
commonly known as Hoss Egan, formerly no
''''oas member OF the gang OF hs!!frs, and now
equally notorious as q slave catcher under the
new law
There Were twenty-five IN the coiored party
III" hi'een whites Several Of the whites We're
Wounded, one, Baltimore officer. severely, by
calls through both OF his shoulders There
were eighteen shots fired by the Shareholders
party