After hearing counsel,
Judge Barculo adjudged "that the said Charles Trainer is
entitled to the care and custody of said Jane Trainer, and
directing her to be delivered to him as her father," &c. In
giving his decision, Judge B. said, "It is not to be assumed
that a child under fourteen years of age is possessed of
sufficient discretion to choose her own guardian; a house of
ill-fame is not a suitable place, nor one of its inmates a
proper person for the education of such a child." Jane
Trainer's mother was afterwards bought from slavery in
Mobile, Alabama, and enabled to join her husband and child.
In 1854, Charles Trainer obtained a verdict in King's County
Court, New York, for $775 damages, against Rose Cooper.
[N.B. Though not strictly a case under the Fugitive Slave Law, this
is very properly inserted here, as the whole spirit of the woman, of
her counsel, and of the means he took to accomplish his base
designs, was clearly instigated by that Law, and by the malignant
influences it brought into action against the colored people, both
slave and free.
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