by
the two Chapmans." Chapman, the son, said that McCord made
him a proposition to join and follow kidnapping for a
business, stating that he knew where he could get four
victims immediately. McCord was taken and lodged in Xenia
jail. The Chapmans bound over to take their trial for
kidnapping.--_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. He was kidnapped in 1841,
from the State of New York, and kept in slavery twelve years.
Two men, named Merrill and Russell, were arrested and tried
as his kidnappers, and the fact fully proven. But the case
was got into the United States Courts, and the criminals went
unpunished. [end of note]

_Nine slaves_ left their masters in Boone County, Kentucky,
on Sunday, June 11, 1854, having three horses with them.
Arrived at the river, they turned the horses back, and taking
a skiff crossed at midnight to the Ohio shore. After
travelling two or three miles, they hid during Monday in a
clump of bushes. At night they started northward again. A
man, named John Gyser, met them and promised to assist them.
He took the