Vigilance in Mississippi 1860
From The New-York Times December 14, 1860:
HANGING BY A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Thursday, Dec. 13.
A letter from Friar’s Point, Miss., says that the Vigilance Committee have hung three carpenters for inciting the slaves to rebellion. Other Northerners were shipped.
Elsewhere in the same edition:
SUSPENSION OF SOUTHERN LINE.
BOSTON, Thursday, Dec. 13.
The line of steamers between Boston and Charleston will discontinue their trips for the present.
I wonder about the relationship between the vigilance committees and the local and state governments in Mississippi and throughout the South.
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