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In still another paper of Virginia we find a proposition to raise ten thousand dollars for the kidnapping, and delivery at Richmond, of a venerable citizen, Joshua R.
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Sumner cites another Virginia paper proposing a bounty for the kidnapping of an anti-slavery citizen, highlighting the extreme measures taken against abolitionists.
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