Description
We notice in a number of republican papers East and West the lieing statement of Dr. Doy in regard to the treatment of the negro who was taken up in this city last spring as a fugitive slave on his way to Pike’s Peak.
These papers, having Doy for their authority, assert that the negro was brutally whipped in jail to make him say to whom he belonged.
We have the statement of the jailor that he was not stricken a blow while in jail, and of the Sheriff (Morgan of Buchanan County), that while in his keeping he received no severe treatment.
The latter found it necessary to strike him 4 or 5 blows with a small riding whip as a punishment for impudence and disobedience.
Why does not the Republican paper of this city assure itself of the facts and give the lie to its brethren who are circulating it?
(Researcher’s note: see entry titled 05/11/1859: Negro Taken Up and 01/01/1860: The Kansas Narrative of John Doy, Chapter XVI The Jail at St. Joseph - Further Incidents of The Slave-Trade, p. 96-98, for John Doy’s description of meeting “Jim” a/k/a Berkeley, his apprehension by the Sheriff of Buchanan County and his eventual sale at auction and “sent down the river.”)Date(s) of Creation
10/29/1859
