ecessary for the slave-owners of Kentucky to take
such steps as will secure their property, we, the citizens of Mass.
and Bracken counties, do recommend," &c. [end note]

RICHARD NEAL, free colored man, kidnapped in Philadelphia and
carried from the city in a carriage towards Maryland. A writ
of _habeas corpus_ was obtained, the kidnappers were
overtaken, and Neal brought back after resistance and various
hindrances. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania discharged him.
February, 1853.

_Ten slaves_, arrested in Indiana, and taken back to
Tennessee, by W. Carney and others. Resistance was
made, and W. Carney "was very badly injured during the
fracas."--_Nashville ----_, March 5, 1853. [Transcribers'
note: ---- substituted for word cut off on original page.]

_Alton, Illinois._ A man claimed to belong to Walter Carrico,
of Warren County, Missouri, was arrested by police officers
from St. Louis. After being lodged in jail in St. Louis he
made his escape, and again went into Illinois. He was
pursued, found, and taken back to St. Louis.--_St. Louis
Republican_, March, 1853.

AMANDA, a slave girl, was brought to St. Louis, from near
Memphis, Tennessee, a year before, by a son of her master,
and by him set free, without his father's consent. After the
father's death, an attempt was made to seize Amanda, and take
her back to Tennessee without trial. This was prevented by
officers, the girl taken from the steamboat Cornelia, and
brought before Levi Davis, United States Commissioner. He
decided in favor of the claimants, (the heirs of the estate,
of course.)--_St. Louis Republican_, March 17, 1853.

JANE TRAINER, a colored child, about ten years old, in the
possession of Mrs. Rose Cooper, _alias_ Porter, (a woman
admitted by her counsel to be a common prostitute,) was
brought before Judge Duer, of New York City, by a writ of
_habeas corpus_, which had been applied for by Charles
Trainer, the father of the child, (a free colored man, who
had followed the parties from Mobile to New York,) and who
desired that the custody of his daughter's person should be
granted to him. [June, 1853, and previous.] Judge Duer
decided that it was not within his jurisdiction to determine
to whom the custody of the child belonged; the Supreme Court
of New York