Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-03-18
The Slave BURNING Story statement Of


khe 5iaye burning OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -
the Facts.
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Gently appeared IN tne iasune' q asinss nasiss
been burned alive Of Union Point. on the banks
ofthe A;sssss;nni. Inreniy 10 tI;. reouest of cor
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The following Is an ea,henSic oceouhh VI sne tas-
action referred TO:
The circumstances ON " bich the fiction is foun-
dad s,,r,. from te best informatior we can
s,.t' i'm the summer or fall of 81.
Two runaway slaves in III q luarisii of Avoy-
elles, LouisiaLn, had for some time elided capture
and had becrme terror 10 the whites OF that thin
ly settled region. The first crime OF magnitude
which they COMMITTED II as the murder OF an old
man named Harrington, who was living ON Red
river near the Mississippi with his only daughter
a young woman who assisted him by her labcIs in
Obtaining d nieagfe support. Vie negroes had pre-.
y.oiisiy forced q negioe woman belonging 10 a
neighbofing planter, 10 Join them Alter murder
ing MI Harrington and robbiug his house Of every
thing avaiiabie 10 them, they forced his daughter
to ioin them, teafing her from beneath the roof
W here her murdered father lay yseltsring in4his
blood. aud making her the victim OF crimes TOO
horrible To he iold. From the house Of Mr. Her
rinefon they proceeded up the Red river 10 the
n outh e the Concorda here was then living d
MI. Todd, with his wife and child, " no kent
small store 10 supply iaftsmtn. AT that time the
two negroes were armed, one with a double bar
relied gun aud knife, and The other with rife
snip siol. They demanded food and lquor which
he gave item. 4 = a S siis Sssiii 81 &
After satisfying their appetiies they demanded u
free pass. ( He lfetended to comply, and wrote
an account of W atliad irnnspmed sat iisf house,
stating his belief that they Intended 10 murder
him. They did murder him by beating out his
brains. They then departed taking with them
shislwife and child, whom they made the victim of
the same horrible crimes TO which they had deyot-
ed.the innocent young girl whom they had ruth
lessly torn tom The home Of d murdered father
Miss Perrington seemed to have lost her ransom
but Mrs. Todd IL seems was a woman of prent
streneth and az so soon as nuf
ideIs and ialauctions became known, the neigh.
tbors would be ontin pursuit she leatieayored To
make traisfer the pnfsnefs BY leaving SHEDS of
2her dress on lie bushes as they m smak
ing her little child walk in the mud in the swamp
At times, thatts little track might afford Sindubi.
Ia bic proof of the course of these savage fe nds
and their unha my victims >,
In week ten days, while the party were at
a halt, about three milss back of Union Point
Which is on lie Mississippi nyer, about thilty. ave
mile b. low Natchex fhts Nv flegr men fell aseen
ore OF them, witt his head ms ian and
The negro woman keeping guard. Suddenly Mrs.
Todd psreeissd ths appteaeh Of the armed nursui
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