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Port Tobacco Times, And Charles County Advertiser
Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland
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Grand jury in Cecil County court at Elkton indicts Wm. T. Jeandret, editor of the Blue Hen's Chicken in Wilmington, Del., for circulating illegal abolition papers. The papers contained a resolution from a Syracuse convention justifying slave uprisings and refusing to suppress insurrections. 10-15 copies arrived at Elkton post-office.
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Elkton, Cecil County
Event Date
Last Week
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indictment was found; supposes he will be demanded of the governor of the state of delaware for trial at elkton
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A searching inquiry was made by the grand jury of Cecil county court, at Elkton, last week, touching certain illegal abolition papers circulated in that town, and an indictment was found against Wm. T. Jeandret, one of the editors of the Blue Hen's Chicken, published at Wilmington, Del. The particular paper presented, bore date the 28th day of February last, and the objectionable matter was a resolution purporting to have been passed at a convention held at Syracuse, N. Y., stating that the slaves of the South would be justifiable in rising in arms to assert their freedom, and that they - the parties who adopted the resolution - would not assist to suppress an insurrection. It was proved that from ten to fifteen copies of the paper came to the Elkton post-office, sent gratuitously in most cases.