--_Standard_,
July 29, 1852.
_Petersburg, Penn._ Two fugitives from Alabama slavery were
overtaken, and taken back, September, 1852.
JOHN HENRY WILSON, a lad of fourteen years, kidnapped from
Danville, Pennsylvania, and taken to Baltimore, where he was,
offered for sale to John N. Denning. Kidnappers committed to
jail, October, 1852.
[--> DANIEL WEBSTER, the endorser of the Fugitive Slave Law, died at
Marshfield, Mass., October 24th, 1852, in the very height of the
Law's triumphant operation.]
_LOUISA_, a colored woman, claimed by Mrs. Reese, of San
Francisco, California, was seized by five armed men, and put
on board Steamer Golden Gate, and carried it is not known
whither. The aid of the Law was not invoked. The California
_Christian Advocate_, from which the above is taken, says,
"Two colored men, stewards on the Golden Gate, were sent back
to the States on the last trip under the State Fugitive Law."
_A mulatto woman, in San Francisco_, was ordered to be
delivered to her claimant, T.
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