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Inhuman.The recently emancipated slaves of Dr. Brisbane were lately conveyed to Green township,and located in a few tenements belonging to Mr. Lewis, which he had granted for the purpose, till the Doctor could make provision for them in Mercer coun’y. Their stay would have been hut short, and nobody supposed that they would become any charge upon the township. Withsurprise and mortification, however, we learn, that they were attacked a few nights since in their dwellings, the windows of which were broken in, and the lives of the inmates endangered by the firing of a gun upon them. Such grovel ling inhumanity would disgrace the veriest savages. Among the poor creatures thus assailed, were several children, and two extremely aged women, one of them blind. The attack was utterly unprovoked, and could have originated in nothing hut simple devilisbness. The trustees of the township, we are told, also made a move towards enforcing the law, requiring security—a laiv of impracticable execution. It would have been more to their honor, if they bad iet it sleep on the statute book.Dr. Brisbane, unwilling to leave the persecuted families to the tender mercies of such civiliza tion, has brought them to Cincinnati, and is nowabout locating them in Mercer county, where they will find themselves among friends.
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Cincinnati Morning Herald
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 11, 1844
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