NEWS
Newark Daily Advertiser
September 15, 1841

scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

<>transcribed by Ruth Adams-Battle


THE CITY - THE MOB.
Cincinnati Gazette - Sept. 8

      The city continues quiet. The police and military were on duty again the night before last. Yesterday the Committee of Safety examined and discharged many, perhaps most of the negroes in prison, exacting bail for good behavior under the act of 1807, from those who had not before given bail, and upon whom the law imposed the giving security. No more fugitive slaves have been found - nor has any one yet been charged with any criminal offence.  We have not been able to learn any thing to be depended on, as to the number, if any, killed, nor the number or the condition of the wounded.  It is now said that the boys wounded, and that one of them is not yet out of danger - and that they were in the beginning of the affray, but were wounded after the return of the negroes to the second offset, which cannot be justified.  The story of the violence upon the negro women, we have taken some pains to enquire into, and believe it is unfounded.
      The Mayor was yesterday examining the complaints against those arrested as in the mob. He had committed some 12 or 15 for trial, and discharged four, the last we heard from the Court House.
      We annex the Governor's Proclamation, issued on Sunday evening - not before having a copy:

Proclamation by the Governor

      Whereas it has been made known to me by the authorities of the city of Cincinnati, that the peace of the city has been wantonly broken by large bodies of lawless persons, and that farther violence to the persons and property of citizens is threatened: Therefore, by virtue of authority in me vested by the laws of the State of Ohio, I hereby command all persons who may be in the city, to yield prompt obedience to the civil authorities engaged in the preservation of peace.  And I enjoin upon all persons to abstain from any unlawful assemblage, or any acts of violence against the persons or property of citizens.  And I hereby make known to all concerned, that orders have been issued to the military force of the County requiring the militia to parade at such points in the city as the civil authority shall direct, and by virtue of such authority to capture by force of arms all disturbers of the peace.
      Given under my hand at the city of Cincinnati, this 5th day of September, A.D. 1841.
                                                                                       THOMAS CORWIN,
                                                                   Governor of Ohio and Commander-in-Chief

 






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