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Lancaster Daily Intelligencer
Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Recalls the 1851 Christiana slave riot where abolitionist Joseph P. Scarlet aided in hiding the shooter who killed Edward Gorsuch and wounded three others from Baltimore. Scarlet and others faced treason charges in Philadelphia but were freed after the first acquittal.
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Baltimore Gazette.
Joseph P. Scarlet, who died recently in Philadelphia, was one of the three white men tried for treason in the United States court for participation in the slave riot at Christiana, Pa., in September, 1851. Mr. Scarlet was an abolitionist, and never failed to give his aid to fugitive slaves when the opportunity offered. In the fall of 1851, when 30 years old, Scarlet was one of the leaders in the attempt to secrete the colored man who shot and killed Edward Gorsuch and wounded Joshua and Dickinson Gorsuch and Dr. Thomas Pierce, four Baltimoreans who had gone to Christiana in search of fugitive slaves. Mr. Scarlet, Elijah Lewis and Castner Hanway, all residents of Christiana, and several colored men, were arrested and held for treason. They were sent to Philadelphia for trial in the Federal court, where the prosecution was abandoned after the acquittal of Mr. Hanway, who was tried first.
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Christiana, Pa.
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September, 1851
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Joseph P. Scarlet, an abolitionist, led efforts to hide the man who killed Edward Gorsuch and wounded Joshua Gorsuch, Dickinson Gorsuch, and Dr. Thomas Pierce during a slave rescue attempt in Christiana in 1851. Scarlet, Elijah Lewis, Castner Hanway, and others were arrested for treason, tried in Philadelphia, and charges dropped after Hanway's acquittal.