d kidnappers were justly
held to bail and imprisoned." It was so suddenly done that
the counsel for the kidnapped man and for the State of
Illinois had not time to reach Springfield before the men
were discharged and on their way to Missouri. The Grand Jury
of the County (in which Chicago is) had found a true bill
against them, of which the Sheriff professed to be ignorant,
(which was deemed hardly possible,)--under which bill they
would probably have been convicted and sentenced to the State
Prison. Thus the omnipotent Slave Power reaches forth its
hand into our most Northern cities, end saves its minions
from the punishment which their lawless acts have justly
merited.--_Chicago Daily Tribune_, Sept. 21, 1854.

--> The three kidnappers published a statement in the _St. Louis
Republican_ of September 26.

HENRY MASSEY, at Philadelphia, September, 1854, was brought
before United States Commissioner E.D. Ingraham, claimed by
Franklin Bright, of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, as his
slave. Arrested in Harrisburg.

HARVEY, arrested near Cumminsville, Ohio,--escaped,--taken
again in Goshen, about ten miles from Cincinnati, and lodged
in the jail of that city. An investigation of the case was
had before United States Commissioner Pendery, and the
slave remanded to the custody of his master.--_Cincinnati
Commercial_, September 22, 1854.

_Byberry, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1854._ A carriage load
of suspicious looking men came to this place in the
afternoon. They waited until nightfall, when they burst into
the house of a colored family, "seized the man in presence of
his wife and another woman, threatening to shoot them if they
interfered--dragged him out, beating him over the head with a
mace. The poor fellow continued to scream for help until his
voice was stifled by his groans; they forced him into their
carriage and drove off, before any effectual assistance
could be offered." He was a sober and industrious man, and
much respected. His wife was left heartbroken, with one
child.--_Norristown (Pa.) Olive Branch_.

_The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman_, of November 18, 1854,
said:--"Kidnapping free negroes in Ohio, and deluding our
slaves from their masters to recapture and sell them, is an
established profession of a gang located upon t