Adams County News

We hear from Adams county, Illinois, of an unfortunate affray, connected with the bad spirit existing in that quarter between the Abolitionists and anti-Abolitionists. Two citizens of Boone county, in this state, had pursued two of their runaway slaves to Bear Creek, in the neighborhood of Quincy. When satisfied of their being discovered, the negroes, both of which were armed with rifles, took shelter in a hazel thicket. Their retreat was soon surrounded by the citizens, who had engaged in the pursuit. As soon as the attack commenced, one of the negroes fired his rifle, the contents of which were lodged in the body of one of the pursuers. The wound is said to be extremely dangerous. A shot from the pursuers struck the body of one of the slaves and he died in a few hours afterwards. The other runaway, seeing resistance hopeless, gave himself up to his master. A party of Abolitionists, who had by this time collected, now interfered.

[Submitted by Kim Torp, 18 Jul 1838; Rhode-Island Republican]