The fugitive slave law is being quietly enforced in the
District to-day, the military authorities not interfering with the judicial
process. There are at least four hundred
cases pending. It is said some of the
negroes, whose owners are agents from Maryland are here seeking their recovery,
[mysteriously] disappeared this morning.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2
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