“Crawford co.  Georgia”

See the “Newbern (N.C.) Spectator,” Jan. 5, 1838, for the following:—­

“RANAWAY, from the subscriber, a negro man named SAMPSON.  Fifty dollars reward will be given for the delivery of him to me, or his confinement in any jail so that I get him, and should he resist in being taken, so that violence is necessary to arrest him, I will not hold any person liable for damages should the slave be KILLED. ENOCH FOY.

“Jones County, N.C.”

From the “Macon (Ga.) Messenger,” June 14, 1838.

“TO THE OWNERS OF RUNAWAY NEGROES.  A large mulatto Negro man, between thirty-five and forty years old, about six feet in height, having a high forehead, and hair slightly grey, was KILLED, near my plantation, on the 9th inst. He would not surrender but assaulted Mr. Bowen, who killed him in self-defence.  If the owner desires further information relative to the death of his negro, he can obtain it by letter, or by calling on the subscriber ten miles south of Perry, Houston county.  EDM’D.  JAS. McGEHEE.”

From the ‘Charleston (S.C.) Courier,’ Feb. 20, 1836.

“$300 REWARD.  Ranaway from the subscriber, in November last, his two negro men, named Billy and Pompey.

“Billy is 25 years old, and is known as the patroon of my boat for many years; in all probability he may resist; in that event 50 dollars will be paid for his HEAD.”

From the ‘Newbern (N.C.) Spectator,’ Dec 2. 1836.

“$200 REWARD.  Ranaway from the subscriber, about three years ago, a certain negro man named Ben, commonly known by the name of Ben Fox.  He had but one eye.  Also, one other negro, by the name of Rigdon, who ranaway on the 8th of this month.

“I will give the reward of one hundred dollars for each of the above negroes, to be delivered to me or confined in the jail of Lenoir or Jones county, or FOR THE KILLING OF THEM, SO THAT I CAN SEE THEM.  W.D.  COBB.”

In the same number of the Spectator two Justices of the Peace advertise the same runaways, and give notice that if they do not immediately return to W.D.  Cobb, their master, they will be considered as outlaws, and any body may kill them.  The following is an extract from the proclamation of the JUSTICES.

“And we do hereby, by virtue of an act of the assembly of this state, concerning servants and slaves, intimate and declare, if the said slaves do not surrender themselves and return home to their master immediately after the publication of these presents, that any person may kill and destroy said slaves by such means as he or they think fit, without accusation or impeachment of any crime or offence for so doing, or without incurring any penalty or forfeiture thereby.

“Given under our hands and seals, this 12th November, 1836.

“B.  COLEMAN, J.P. [Seal.]

“JAS. JONES, J.P. [Seal.]”

On the 28th, of April 1836, in the city of St Louis, Missouri, a black man, named McIntosh who had stabbed an officer, that had arrested him, was seized by the multitude, fastened to a tree in the midst of the city, wood piled around him, and in open day and in the presence of an immense throng of citizens, he was burned to death.  The Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, in its account of the scene says;