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When escaping slave Joshua Glover was freed from the Milwaukee jail by a mob on March 12, 1854, and spirited away via the underground railroad, the Republican and abolitionist press celebrated it as a victory for civil rights. But Glover's former owner, Bennami Garland, and his agents named Arnold and Hamilton, naturally thought that justice had been trampled on. A month later they stated their legal case in the Stevens Point Wisconsin Pinery, a Democrat-leaning newspaper opposed to the anti-slavery cause, given here. We apologize for the poor quality of the image; the microfilm from which it was created was manufactured decades ago, before modern standards were consistently applied.Citation
"The Fugitive Slave Case at Racine and Milwaukee." Wisconsin Pinery (Stevens Point, Wis.), April 13, 1854.