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Some time since, Mr. Lundy, the editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, a weekly paper published in Baltimore, used some very severe terms in relation to a man by the name of Woolfolk, a notorious slave dealer, who took it so much in anger, that he violently assaulted the editor; the latter gentleman being a “friend” had recourse to the law for redress. We copy from the Genius of Universal Emancipation,' the fol- j lowing as a’ part of the Judge’s charge to the Jury:“Chief Justice Price, in pronouncing sentence, took occasion to observe that he had never seen a case in which provocation for a battery was greater than the present—that if abustye language could ever be a justification for a battery, this was the case—that the traverser was engaged in trade sanctioned by the laws of Maryland, and that Lundy had no right to reproach him in such abusive language for carrying on a lawful trade—that the trade itself was beneficial to the state, as it removed a great many rogues and vagabonds who were a nuisance in the state—that Lundy had received no more than a merited chastisement for his abuse ot the traverser, and but for the strict letter of the law the Cout t would not fine Woolfolk any thing. The Court however was obliged to fine him something, and they therefore fined him one dollar and costs.”
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Wilmingtonian and Delaware Advertiser
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Thu, Apr 19, 1827
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