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Domestic News
July 23, 1834
The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
What is this article about?
Riot in Newark after Rev. Mr. Weeks allowed a coloured man to enter the pulpit, prompting the crowd to remove him, jail him, and demolish the church interior.
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RIOT AT NEWARK.
What are we coming to? Where are these mischiefs to end? We had indeed hoped that, grievous as they were, they would be confined to our ill fated island. But we were deceived in that hope, and learn that like results, springing from like causes, occurred last evening at Newark.
It seems that the Rev. Mr. Weeks, who has been recently inoculated with the amalgamation infection, introduced a coloured man into his pulpit last evening, against the previously ascertained will of the people. When the populace found this out, they entered the church in great numbers, took the latter forcibly from the pulpit, conveyed him to the jail, threatening to tear it down if the jailor did not receive him—locked him up—and then returned to the church, broke the windows, tore down the pulpit and pews, and reduced the edifice to a shell.
Com. Ado.
What are we coming to? Where are these mischiefs to end? We had indeed hoped that, grievous as they were, they would be confined to our ill fated island. But we were deceived in that hope, and learn that like results, springing from like causes, occurred last evening at Newark.
It seems that the Rev. Mr. Weeks, who has been recently inoculated with the amalgamation infection, introduced a coloured man into his pulpit last evening, against the previously ascertained will of the people. When the populace found this out, they entered the church in great numbers, took the latter forcibly from the pulpit, conveyed him to the jail, threatening to tear it down if the jailor did not receive him—locked him up—and then returned to the church, broke the windows, tore down the pulpit and pews, and reduced the edifice to a shell.
Com. Ado.
What sub-type of article is it?
Riot Or Protest
What keywords are associated?
Newark Riot
Church Destruction
Racial Disturbance
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. Mr. Weeks
Where did it happen?
Newark
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Newark
Event Date
Last Evening
Key Persons
Rev. Mr. Weeks
Outcome
coloured man locked up in jail; church windows broken, pulpit and pews torn down, edifice reduced to a shell.
Event Details
Rev. Mr. Weeks introduced a coloured man into his pulpit against the will of the people. The populace entered the church, took the coloured man forcibly from the pulpit, conveyed him to the jail and locked him up, then returned to the church and destroyed the interior.