as a slave; but, by the strenuous interposition of Capt.
Card, certificates were obtained from New Bedford, and he was
set at liberty.

ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, _West Chester County, Penn._, delivered
into slavery by Commissioner Jones. (July, 1851.)

DANIEL HAWKINS, of _Lancaster County, Penn._, (July, 1851,)
was brought before Commissioner Ingraham, Philadelphia, and
by him delivered to his claimant, and he was taken into
slavery.

_New Athens, Ohio, July 8, 1851._ Eighteen slaves, who had
escaped from Lewis County, Kentucky, were discovered in
an old building in Adams County, Ohio. Some white men,
professing to be friendly, misled them, and brought them to a
house, where they were imprisoned, bound one by one, and
carried back to Kentucky. [The enactment of the Fugitive
Slave Law is the direct stimulating cause of all these cases
of kidnapping.]

_Buffalo, August, 1851._ Case of DANIEL ----. D. was a cook
on board the steamer "Buckeye State." He was engaged in his
avocation, when Benj. S. Rust, with a warrant from United
States Commissioner H.K. Smith, went on board the boat.
Daniel was called up from below, and as his head appeared
above the deck, Rust struck him a heavy blow, upon the head,
with a large billet of wood, which knocked him back into the
cook-room, where he fell upon the stove and was badly burned.
In this state, he was brought before the Commissioner,
"bleeding profusely at the back, of the head, and at the
nose, and was moreover so stupefied by the assault, that he
fell asleep several times during the brief and very summary
proceedings." For most of the time he was unable to converse
with his counsel, and "sat dozing, with the blood slowly
oozing out of his mouth and nostrils." After a very hurried
form, and mockery of a trial, Daniel was ordered to be
delivered to Rust, the Agent of George H. Moore, of
Louisville, Kentucky. By a writ of _Habeas Corpus_, Daniel
was brought before Judge Coakling, of the United States
Court, at Auburn, who gave a decision that set Daniel at
liberty, and he was immediately hurried by his friends into
Canada. Rust was indicted, in Buffalo, for his brutal assault
on Daniel. It was fully proved; he afterwards plead guilty,
and; was let off with the paltry fine of fifty