--_Wilmington (Ohio) Herald of Freedom_.
_Columbus, Indiana._ A Kentuckian endeavored to entice a
little negro boy to go with him, and both were waiting to
take the cars, when mischief was suspected, and a crowd of
people proceeded to the depot, and made the kidnapper
release his intended victim. (June, 1854.)--_Indiana Free
Democrat_.
---- BROWN, a resident of Henderson, Kentucky, was arrested
for aiding four female slaves to escape from Union County,
Kentucky, to Canada. United States Marshal Ward and Sheriff
Gavitt, of Indiana, made the arrest. He was lodged in
Henderson jail.--_Evansville (Ind.) Journal_, June 2, 1854.
Several Kentucky planters, among them Archibald Dixon, raised
$500 in order to secure Brown's conviction and sentence to
penitentiary.
[Transcriber's note: The following note appears as a footnote
to this section without specific reference to any of the
cited cases.]
--> The case of SOLOMON NORTHUP, though not under the
Fugitive Law, is so striking an illustration of the power
which created that law, and of the constant danger which
impends over every colored citizen of the Northern States,
fast threatening to include white citizens also, that it must
not he passed over without mention.
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