In the Sacramento Daily Union, 25 January 1861. in the City Intelligence section, page 3 is this article: Attempt to Kidnap. — Sometime during Wednesday, officers Keyser and Mclntosh received information from Placerville and Mud Springs, El Dorado county, that a colored man would arrive in the city that night, who was being taken through … [Read more…]
In a series of articles found on the California Digital Newspaper Archive from U.C. Riverside, here is some of the story of the capture of the American Slaver Wildfire as reported in May, 1860, well before the Civil War. Sacramento Daily Union – 19 June 1860 Capture of a Slaver off the Coast of Africa.— … [Read more…]
From the California Digital Newspaper Collection: Sacramento Daily Union 17 September 1868 THE FIRST FIGHT (the Kansas-Nebraska contest) A reader asks us to give some information regarding the Kansas-Nebraska contest and the opinions of the different parties thereto. That fight for liberty was so like the present one in the principles and purposes involved that … [Read more…]