Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-07
A Plain Dealer Sensation Item.


ANofHER oBERLIN SENslTIoN--A NKsRo Is
STRIPED, CowHIDED AND DRIvEN FROM THE
TowN.-On Monday last a negro arrived in
Oberlin and begged refuge AMI prOtec ion,
claiming that he was fugitive slave from Ken.
tueky. AS some suspicion existed as to his
being a genuine fugitive, be was taken before
the Mayor for examination. The Mayor, after
a close examination could not decide whether
the negro was a fugitive or not, and declined
having anything farther TO d Nth the case
The negro left the Mayors Office, but had no
sooner reached the street than he was seized by
a gang of negroes, some thirty in all, who strip
] ped him and cOwhided him until the blood
| spirited from his face, back and breast in tor
rents. He was then released and told TO leave
town al once He started, but the black brutes,
not satisfied with whipping him almost to
deaths door, pursued him for two miles, with
clubs and stones and hideous yells. The ring
! leader in this brutal affair was one Evans a e.
gro and Of the notorious 0berlin Ieseuers. We
receive these particulars from reliable citizens
of Oberlin, who witnessed the Transaction
Oberlin is completely in the hands of the ne
groes, and their rule, like that of Hayti and
other places where blacks ara in power, is
pOmPOus, despotic end brutI.
Read the following certificate from the Mayor
of Oberlin ss
1 hereby certify that the above statements
made in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in reference
to an examination had before me, are entirely
false. No such seizure, stripping, or cowhiding
of negio, or any other man, took place in this
village on Monday last, or on any other day.
A. N. BEECHER,
Mayor of 0berlin.
The following from the LOrain News explains
the whole affair:
Some excitement prevailed in our streets yes
| teTday in consequences of the report that great
outrage had been committed upon a cOlored
man by some Of the citizens, and last night a
meeting was held at the Mayors Office to inves-
| tigate the affair.
A full examination from those present deVeiu
op the following facts:
Within ten days three different oolored men
have visited this place to get money upon the
Pretence of their being fugittves, while in fact
| they were ImpOsters. These clses were very
annoying to some Of our coiored men, and the
last one was pursued by Mr.. Evans and others
with the sole object offrightening him SO as to
prevent the recurrence Of such imposition
They overlook him, and inflicted dozen
light taps UPON his back, whereupon he left for
the west, after thanking his pursuers for letting
him of with so light punishm mt, and prom
ising never to act the impOster again
The following resolution was passed:
RssOlped, That we dissPPrOve of the action
Of Henry Evans ard those who acted with him
in inAicting punishment however light upon the
cOlored man who passed himself off for fugi-
| tive slave, while he was not, ard never had
been slive, merely for the purpose of obtain
| ing money
Mr. Evans appeared before JuFtiSe Bushnell
and plead guilty to 8 violation Of the law and
was fined. ...--
In addition to the above from the News, we
append the following;
l hereby certify that was present at the
meeting referred to in the above article publish
ed in the Lorain News, and that the statements
contained therein correspond exactly with the
testimony Of all those who were present and
witnessed the affair. Two negroes only pur-
sued the pretended fugitive, who acknowledged
himself never to have been a slave. Not drop
of blood was drawn, Dor club or stone or
other missile used on the occasion.
DANIEL BUSHNELL, J. P.
Oberlin, APrd 5, 1850. fH