Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1860 — The Kidnapped Irishman. [ARTICLE]

The Kidnapped Irishman.

The Chicago Times may have received such informal ion from here, but if the editor of that paper will come down here we cun prove to him that the aforesaid “negro” is as white as he is, and we have no doubt but that oi Leary and the Times' informant, the former was the whiter of the two. It would be a relief to their corrupt and disordered minds to have the people believe he was a negro, as it might sjrve to hide their shame to some extent, but it would reflect no credit on some of our Democratic officials, whb acknowledge him a fellow countryman. If Leary was a negro why did his captors slink off like a couple of curs when the writ of habeas corpus was served on them and let their cant ve go his way without further molestation! It won’t do to talk about Tiios. Leary being a negro where exibition can be made of him, and for any of the Democracy of this county to make such a statement is the hight of presumption when some have been voting with them for years who are highly impregnated with negro blood. They ought to keep dark on this negro question. Sherman, the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House, is of Connecticut origin. He comes honestly by his Republicanism, as the Wood of okd Roger Sherman flows in bis veins. (X?” Helper has sent a splendidly bound copy of the unabridged edition of his “Impending Crisis,” to Missouri Clark, with a letter, returning that gentleman his sincere thanks for the magnificent advertisements he has bestowed, free of charge, upon his book- j-