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Rumored execution in Arkansas.

--The Memphis Enquirer learns from a gentleman, in whose statement it places implicit confidence, that a Methodist preacher made his appearance in Osceola, Ark., a short time since, and wished to ventilate a quantity of his stock of abolition rhetoric. His offer was declined, the inhabitants feeling that they were quite well enough posted on the principles of abolitionism. He still persisted, and went about twenty-five miles below Osceola, where he succeeded in getting employment from a number of planters to preach to their negroes. One of the planters, a few days since, received a letter from a planter in South Carolina warning him of this man, as he was a dangerous abolitionist. A committee of citizens was immediately formed, who arrested the preacher, and he was taken to Osceola, tried and sentenced to execution.

The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 21, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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