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BASIL WHITE, Philadelphia, was summarily surrendered into
slavery in Maryland, by United States Commissioner Ingraham,
June 1, 1853. He was betrayed into the clutches of the
kidnapper Alberti, by a colored man named John Dorsey.
_Two slaves_ of Sylvester Singleton, living near Burlington,
(Ky.?) escaped and reached Columbus, Ohio; were there
overtaken by their master, who secured them and took them
back with him.--_Cincinnati Enquirer_.
JOHN FREEMAN, a free colored man, seized in Indianapolis, and
claimed as the slave of Pleasant Ellington, a Methodist
church-member, (Summer, 1853,) of Missouri. Freeman pledged
himself to prove that he was not the person he was alleged to
be. The United States Marshal consented to his having time
for this, provided he would go to jail, and pay _three
dollars a day_ for a guard to keep him secure! Bonds to any
amount, to secure the marshal against loss, if Freeman could
go at large, were rejected. Freeman's counsel went to
Georgia, and "after many days returned with a venerable and
highly respectable gentleman from Georgia, Mr.
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