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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Slave rescue in New York. (search)
essel, two United States Deputy Marshals left the vehicle, having in custody a fugitive slave. One of the Marshals was about to drag the negro on board, when he grasped, with almost savage tenacity, the rails of the plank, clinging to it despite every effort to disengage his grasp. A large crowd soon gathered round the trio, and the negro, deeming he had friends or sympathy among them begged them to rescue him crying loudly, "Oh, men, save me! Save me! I'm not him — save me!". Officer Armstrong, of the steamboat squad, on viewing the crowd, pressed forward and caught hold of the negro, who had then relieved himself from the grasp of the Marshal. The officer quickly asked if the Marshals had the necessary legal documents to convey the fugitive away to Virginia; but the officers in charge of him seemed somewhat puzzled at the question, and after an instant's pause replied that they had not the papers, but would go for them. One of the Marshals then went for the warrants,