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Doyle, the Negro Abductor.
MEETING IN FAYETTE.
At an Adjourned meeting of the citizens of Lexington and the County of Fayette, held at the Court House in Lexington, on Saturday, the 19th of August, 1848, in the absence of GEN. JAMES DUDLEY, the President of the former meeting, JAMES H. ALLEN, Esq., was called to the Chair, and BEVERLY A. HICKS, (the former Secretary,) was requested again to discharge the duties of that position.
MADISON C. JOHNSON, Esq., from the Committee appointed for the purpose, presented the following, resolutions, which, having been read, were unanimously adopted:
The Committee to whom were referred the consideration of the measures necessary for securing to owners their rights in slave property, would report the following resolutions:
SLAVE STAMPEDE IN KENTUCKY. A larger number of slaves––fifty or seventy-five, says the Lexington Observer––owned in and about Lexington, made their escape on the night of the 5th inst. The plan had been concocted for some time previous by the Abolitionists, who were to convey the blacks to a place of security for ten dollars each. A pursuit was at once instituted, and parties had gone from Maysville to assist in the recapture. A telegraphic dispatch from that place states that the fugitives were overtaken by a par[ty] of twenty whites near the river, but being armed, they offered a successful resistance, killing one whit man. Subsequent to the fight, five negroes were taken near Maysville, and six or seven at Cynthiana. The whole country in the vicinity was aroused, and the probability is that all have since been secured.
Patrick Doyle, confined in jail in this city for negro-stealing, attempted on Sunday night to escape, by cutting a hole through the wall of his cell. He has since been put in irons, which will render his custody perfectly secure.
THE RUNAWAY SLAVES.––Patrick Doyle, the man who was apprehended with the runaway negroes in Bracken county, has been taken to Lexington. It is stated that he left the Catholic Church a few years ago, and afterward believed, or pretended to believe, that the Catholics intended to murder him. The Lexington Atlas says, the general opinion is, that he is either an imbecile or a monomaniac, and that some other person or persons of more capacity must have been engaged in the abduction of the negroes. The following is from the Lexington Atlas of yesterday:––
KENTUCKY SLAVE STAMPEDE.––We learn from the Lexington (Ky.) Atlas, of Saturday last, that Patrick Doyle, charged with being concerned in enticing slaves to runaway, had a hearing before an examining court, on the previous day. A number of witnesses were examined, and although no positive testimony was elicited against him, his guilt was made sufficiently manifest to justify the court in sending him on for further trial before the Fayette Circuit Court. Bail to the amount of $20,000 was required, which the prisoner was not able to give, and was committed to jail.
Lexington August 25th 1848
Dear Sir,
During the absence of my brother R Pindell in Missouri, a favourite negro boy of his, and one to whom we are all much attached, went off with the party of negroes who were led away by the Abolitionist Doyle.
Negro Stampede in Kentucky.
Lexington August the 26th 1848
Dear sir
Doyle, the scoundrel who is now in jail at Lexington, under the charge of planning and arranging the late negro stampede, is the fellow who was confined in the Frankfort jail some weeks since under a charge of theft, and was acquitted on the ground of insanity. That plea will not avail him in the present case.––Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth.
Maysville 2d Septr. 1848
Dr. Sir
I have just returned from a term of the Bracken Circuit Court held for the trial of some negroes who attempted to escape from their owners in Fayetteville County in company with a mr Doyle who is now in the Fayetteville jail-
Seven of the negroes were tried upon the charge of conspiring to Rebel and three of them Harry Slaughter the slave of R Pindell Esq Presley the slave of Mr Waldon and Shamrock the salves of Mr Christian, were convicted.
September 2nd 1848
To his Excellency The Governor
The undersigned is the father of the young man Wm R Fowler, who was wounded with a pistol ball in the skirmish with the fugitive slaves who are now on trial in the Bracken Circuit Court. He has been mainly instrumental in having them brought to trial, and has employed counsel to aid in their prosecution. From the evidence in the cause, and the circumstances, the undersigned believes that Bill Griffin, one of the negroes, now on trial, had no active share in either of the skirmishes detailed in evidence but was sick, broken down, and almost incapable of exertion at the times. The undersigned has not the least inclination to prosecute Bill Griffin farther, and begs leave to respectfully recommend him to the merciful interposition of your Excellency
Wm R Fowler
C.H. Fowler
Brookville Sep 2nd 1848
My dear Sir
I am requested by the master or former master of Harry Slaughter to write to you in relation to his case Seven negroes have been tried during the last week, among whom Slaughter was one. The Jury has not agreed in any verdict, and it is understood that there is no probability of their agreeing. Slaughter, name is mentioned in the evidence more frequently than that of several others, but there is no proof of his ever having fired a pistol, in either skirmish, and there is nothing which shows him, in a different light from the great mass, who have been discharged
Dear Sir, I have heard all the evidence against the negroes for the late outrage in Bracken county. And have instructed the Jury that all who were in company armed and ready to aid, at the time they fired upon their owners and other white men, who attempted to take them up, are guilty. You are an experienced Lawyer, and the act of [illegible] under which they are tried page 1287 of 2d Statutes says “If they shall Conspire to rebel & make Insurrection.” they are guilty of felony &c.
A Slave Stampede.––We learn that on Tuesday night a stampede took place among the slaves in Baltimore county, twelve having gone without leave from two gentlemen of the county. They seem to have acted in concert, and are probably before this time on Pennsylvania "free soil." Six of them, we understood, were the property of the Hon. J.T. H. Worthington.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7, 1848.
The Isabel at Portsmouth––Remains of the Gallant Dead––Extensive Slave Stampede––Departure of the Liberia Packet––Theatricals, &c.
The new ocean steamer Isabel, reached Norfolk on her first trial, a distance of 200 miles, in sixteen hours, but was delayed considerably by her rudder, and portions of her machinery, not working smooth. She was taken into the dry dock yesterday, and will be coppered, and back to our wharf on Tuesday next.
The remains of Capt. Boyd and Lieut. Tanneyhill, late Baltimoreans, who lest [lost] their lives in a skirmish near Tampico, arrived at this port last night, and were immediately taken charge of by the military and Odd Fellows.
THE KENTUCKY SLAVE STAMPEDE.––The Maysville Eagle makes the following notice of the slave trial progressing in Bracken County, Ky:
"The grand jury found a true bill against seven of the slaves in Bracken county for the late outrage committed there. One bill for conspiracy, insurrection and rebellion, and one for shooting with intent to kill.––Upon the first, a jury was obtained on Tuesday, and the trial is now progressing. Two negroes occupied nearly five hours in testifying, since which half a dozen white men have testified in relation to the resistance and firing by the company of negroes upon the white men who attempted to take them up as runaway slaves. The jury is composed of good men of Bracken county, selected by the sheriff at a called term, and not by Commissioners as at a general term."
The Charleston Courier has news by telegraph, to the effect that about twenty slaves made their escape to parts unknown, from the vicinity of Baltimore, on the 6th inst. The Courier's correspondent characterizes it as a regular stampede, but gives no particulars of the manner in which they effected their escape. These stampedes are becoming every day occurrences.
NEGRO STAMPEDE. Twelve slaves, belonging to individuals in Baltimore county, escaped last week, and have not been caught.-- Probably bound to Canada.
The Kentucky Slave Stampede. – They Maysville Eagle makes the following notice of the slave trial progressing in Bracken county, Kentucky:
The grand jury found a true bill against seven of the slaves in Bracken county, for the late outrage committed there. One bill for conspiracy, insurrection and rebellion, and one for shooting with intent to kill. Upon the first, a jury was obtained on Tuesday, and the trial is now progressing.
Doyle's Trial and Conviction.
Doyle was put upon trial yesterday morning. A jury was obtained with but little or no difficulty.––After the examination of a number of witnesses the counsel for the Commonwealth withdrew all the indictments but one, and the case was submitted to the jury without argument. After a few moments consultation, the jury returned into Court with a perdict of guilty, and fixed the period of servitude in the Penitentiary at TWENTY YEARS.
STAMPEDE FRUSTRATED.––We learn that about forty negroes had made arrangements to leave their masters, in Woodford county, on Saturday night last, but the plot was discovered just in time to defeat its execution. The negroes all had free passes. According to the plan of operations, each was to steal a horse and cross the Ohio river before day. They were betrayed by a negro to whom the plot was disclosed, and who was requested to join in it. The negroes stated that two or three white men who had been in the neighborhood some days, furnished them free passes. These men got an intimation of the discovery of the plot, and made their escape.
We omitted in our notice yesterday morning, of the trial and conviction of Doyle, that he plead guiltyf to the indictment upon which he was tried.
The Kentucky Slave Stampede. – They Maysville Eagle makes the following notice of the Slave trial progressing in Bracken county, Kentucky: -
The grand jury found a true bill against seven of the slaves in Bracken county for the late outrage committed there. One bill for conspiracy, insurrection and rebellion, and one for shooting with intent to kill.––Upon the first, a jury was obtained on Tuesday, and the trial is now progressing. Two negroes occupied nearly five hours in testifying, since which half a dozen white men have testified in relation to the resistance and firing by the company of negroes upon the white men who attempted to take them up as runaway slaves. The jury is composed of good men of Bracken county, selected by the sheriff at a called term, and not by Commissioners as at a general term.
CONVICTION OF DOYLE IN KENTUCKY.––The white man Doyle, who figured so largely in the great slave stampede in Kentucky, some time since, resisting the pursuers of the negroes, &c., was convicted of the offence at Lexington on the 9th inst., and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
STAMPEDE FRUSTRATED.––We learn that about forty negroes had made arrangements to leave their masters, in Woodford county, on Saturday night last, but the plot was discovered just in time to defeat its execution. The negroes all had free passes. According to the plan of operations, each was to steal a horse and cross the Ohio river before day. They were betrayed by a negro to whom the plot was disclosed, and who was requested to join in it. The negroes stated that two or three white men who had been in the neighborhood some days, furnished them free passes. These men got an intimation of the discovery of the plot, and made their escape.––Lexington (Ky) Atlas, 9th inst.
The white man Doyle, who figured so largely in the great slave stampede in Kentucky, some time since, resisting the pursuers of the negroes, &c., was convicted of the offence at Lexington, on the 9th instant, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
ANOTHER STAMPEDE––DOYLE CONVICTED.––The Maysville Herald, of Wednesday last, mentions the discovery and frustration of another negro stampede in Kentucky. Some forty slaves, it says, belonging in Woodford county, had made arrangements to break the bonds of servitude, and seek the sweets of liberty in a free State, on Saturday night. The negroes all had free passes, and, according to general orders, were each to steal a horse, and thus ride out of the land of bondage. But one of the band proving recreant, their designs were discovered and frustrated.
Another Stampede--Doyle Convicted.
The Maysville Herald of Wednesday mentions the discovery and frustration of another negro stampede in Kentucky. Some forty slaves, it states, belonging in Woodford county, had made arrangements to break the bonds of servitude and seek the sweets of liberty, in a free State, on Saturday night. The negroes all had free passes, and, according to general orders each was to steal a horse and thus ride out of the land of bondage. But one of the band proving recreant, their designs were discovered and frustrated.
Mr. DOYLE, who was engaged in the late Slave Stampede near Lexington Ky. Has been tried for the offence, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years servitude in the Penitentiary.
STAMPEDE FRUSTRATED. – We learn that about forty negroes had made arrangements to leave their masters in Woodford county on Saturday night last, but the plot was discovered just in time to defeat its execution. The negroes al had free passes. According to the plan of operations, each was to steal a horse and cross the Ohio river before day. They were betrayed by a negro to whom the plan was disclosed, and who was requested to join in it. The
The N.Y. Express states that Mr. DOYLE, who was engaged in the late Slave Stampede near Lexington, Ky., has been tried for the offence, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years servitude in the Penitentiary.
Mr. Doyle, who was engaged in the late Slave Stampede, near Lexington, Ky., has been tried for the offence, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years servitude in the Penitentiary.
ANOTHER STAMPEDE––DOYLE CONVICTED.––The Maysville Herald of Wednesday last mentions the discovery and frustration of another negro stampede in Kentucky. Some forty slaves, it says, belonging in Woodford county, had made arrangements to break the bonds of servitude and seek the sweets of liberty in a free State, on Saturday night. The negroes all had free passes, and, according to general orders, were each to steal a horse, and thus ride out of the land of bondage. But one of the band proving recreant, their designs were discovered and frustrated.
The man Doyle who figured so extensively in the Kentucky slave stampede, has been convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for twenty years.
ANOTHER SLAVE STAMPEDE IN KENTUCKY. They Maysville Herald of Wednesday week, mentions the discovery and frustration of another negro stampede in Kentucky. Some forty slaves, it says, belonging in Woodford county, had made arrangements to break the bounds of servitude and seek the sweets of liberty in a free State, on Saturday. The negroes all had free passes, and according to general orders, were each to steal a horse, and thus ride out of the land of bondage.
Stampede Frustrated––We learn that about forty negroes had made arrangements to leave their masters in Woodford county, on Saturday night last, but the plot was discovered just in time to defeat its execution. The negroes all had free passes. According to the plan of operations, each was to steal a horse and cross the Ohio river before day. They were betrayed by a negro to whom the plot was disclosed, and who was requested to join in it.
Doyle, the Kentucky slave stealer, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Another stampede of forty negroes who had been furnished with free passes by white men, in Woodford county, Ky., has just been frustrated.
That's right!––Give them 'goss.
The Mt. Vernon Banner is down upon Letcher, Metcalfe, and all the stumpers from this State now in Ohio, like a thunder-gust. That is right brother Dunbar; drive them home, where they belong.––They have enough to do to keep their own negroes from raising a stampede, without troubling themselves about other people's business. The banner has the following thurst at the Honorables from Kentucky, who are now perambulating Ohio:
CONVICTION OF DOYLE IN KENTUCKY.––The white man Doyle, who figured so largely in the great slave stampede in Kentucky, some time since, resisting the pursuers of the negroes, &c., was convicted of the offence at Lexington on the 9th inst., and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Another negro stampede has been frustrated in Kentuckey. Some forty slaves have arranged to steal horses and escape, but were betrayed by one of their number. Patrick Doyle, a white man, engaged in assisting the negroes, who escaped some months since, and were mostly retaken in Ohio, has been sentenced to 20 years in the Penitentiary.
NEGRO STAMPEDE FRUSTRATED.––The Lexington (Ky.) Atlas of the 10th inst. says: "We learn that about forty negroes had made arrangements to leave their masters, in Woodford county, on Saturday night last, but the plot was discovered just in time to defeat its execution. The negroes all had free passes. According to the plan of operations, each was to steal a horse and cross the Ohio river before day. They were betrayed by a negro to whom the plot was disclosed, and who was requested to join in it. The negroes stated that two or three white men, who had been in the neighborhood some days, furnished them free passes. These men got an intimation of the discovery of the plot, and made their escape.
ANOTHER STAMPEDE--DOYLE CONVICTED.
The Maysville (Ky.) Herald, mentions the discovery and frustration of another negro stampede in Kentucky. Some forty slaves, it states, belonging in Woodford County, had made arrangement to break the bonds of servitude and seek the sweets of liberty, in a free state, on Saturday night last. The negroes all had free passes, and according to general orders each was to steal a horse and thus ride out of the land of bondage. But one of the band proving recreant, their designs were discovered and frustrated.
Mr. Boyle [Doyle], who was engaged in the slave stampede near Lexington Ky. has been tried for the offense, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years servitude in the penitentiary.
MAYSVILLE, KY., Nov. 1.
RUNAWAY SLAVES!
Caught in his own Trap.
A STAMPEDE.––The Cleveland Plaindealer of Tuesday says that seven run away slaves passed through that city on the day previous, on their way to Canada.