| Chambersburg Valley Spirit, "A Row," February 16, 1859 Summary
Racial flare-ups in Franklin County could turn on any perceived affront to a white person. This small notice in the Democratic
paper emphasizes the racial conflict in an incident.
EXCERPT:
"Considerable of a muss was kicked up on the Diamond 'all of a sudden' on Monday night, by a negro boy hitting a white man
with a stone, and breaking a glass in the large bulk window of Shryock & Co's Book Store."
Full-text web version of newspaper  Points of Analysis to this Data:
 "Franklin County's papers spent more ink--almost all of it negative--on its nearly two thousand free blacks than Augusta did
on its five thousand enslaved people."
Citation: Key = E059
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