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The Illinois Free Trader And Lasalle County Commercial Advertiser
Ottawa, La Salle County County, Illinois
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Abolition riot in Cincinnati over accusations that abolitionists aided the escape of a slave from New Orleans. Thousands attacked Mr. Burnett's confectionary; rioters injured by stones and boiling molasses poured from windows. Arrests followed; military restored order by the 2nd instant.
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Cincinnati papers of the 2d inst. give accounts of a serious disturbance in that city for several days and nights, growing out of an alleged charge against some abolitionists there to aid the escape of a domestic attendant of a slave holder from New Orleans. Several thousand persons assembled and made an attack on Mr. Burnett's confectionary establishment, the same individual who had on a former occasion excited the indignation of a similar assemblage. Several of the rioters were severely injured by stones, and by receiving on their head boiling molasses, several buckets full of which were poured out of the window on them. Some of the persons engaged in the riot have been arrested. The military was called out, and, by the 2d, order was in a measure restored.
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Cincinnati
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For Several Days And Nights, Order Restored By The 2d Inst.
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several of the rioters were severely injured by stones, and by receiving on their head boiling molasses, several buckets full of which were poured out of the window on them. some of the persons engaged in the riot have been arrested. the military was called out, and, by the 2d, order was in a measure restored.
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Cincinnati papers of the 2d inst. give accounts of a serious disturbance in that city ... growing out of an alleged charge against some abolitionists there to aid the escape of a domestic attendant of a slave holder from New Orleans. Several thousand persons assembled and made an attack on Mr. Burnett's confectionary establishment, the same individual who had on a former occasion excited the indignation of a similar assemblage.