The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Lincolnite caged.

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A Lincolnite caged.

--Sunday night a fellow calling himself John Frost got into a rather warm place by declaring on the streets his incendiary proclivities in the hearing of loyal citizens. Among his assertions was one to the effect that no army the South might muster could move Lincoln from Washington, or take him in custody for his flagrant violations of constitutional obligation; also, that he was a Black Republican, and did not care who knew it. As a matter of course, the fellow was deposited in the watch-house. The Mayor yesterday put him in jail, though he might with equal justice have ordered him thirty-nine lashes, the case coming under that provision of law authorizing the Mayor to inflict stripes on blacks, whether Republicans or otherwise. No doubt a term in the chain gang will in the end serve to cool the ardor of the incendiary refugee.

The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 7, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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A Lincolnite caged.