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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Benjamin's Second notice. (search)
l boy, had the audacity to die of the measles. Toby, before the measles, and before passing into th one Whitfield, of Mississippi. Whitfield sent Toby to Screws to be sold. And Screws sold him. Andof what regiment is not stated) bought him. And Toby suffered himself to catch the measles and died,ter anguish of Mr. Whitfield when he heard that Toby was dead and Benjamin Screws would not, except upon legal compulsion, pay him over the $1,350--Toby's price. There seems to have been a great dealield. I can't do it, wrote Benjamin in reply. Toby, he continued, is dead — of the measles. I waru. Whether or not friend Screws ended with d — Toby, we cannot say. Very likely he has, in the most unnecessary manner, consigned Toby to that fate before this. Well, to make a long story short, W was actually locked up. And all because nigger Toby had the measles. The report from which we copy It is evident that all this trouble comes of Toby's willfulness in dying of the measles. He had [1 more...]<