Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-29
TEE REQU1sITIoN.

The following is the report of Mr.. Cooper to
Governor Chase regarding his mission to Kentucky.
This report does not make it at all certain tina,
Governor Morehead was not complicated with
Gaines in the escape of the Slaves:
To S. 2. CHASE, Governor: SIR :-On receiving
from your hands a requisition upon the Governor
of Kentucky, Cor the surrender of Margaret, Simon,
Robert and Mary Garner, fugitives from the Justice
of this State, | proceeded Immediately on my way
to Frankfort, Kentucky, to obtain from the Gov.
ernor of that State, the necessary warrants for
their delivery into my hands. 1 left here on
Wednesday of last week and Cincinnati on Thurs
day morning, on the first train Of cars for Frank
fort.
AT Lexington there cane on - the cars q man
living i'll CovingtUn, and known to me, who had in
charge four slaves. learned from him that they
belonged to Mr.. Gaines that one was the mother
OF Margaret, another was q stout man, about thirty
years old, and another u light colored mulatto girl,
with a still lighter colored infant in her arms.
These, he informed me, he was taking to Louis,
vile, where Mr.. Gaines other slaves were living in
Jail, and that on his arrival. they would all be ship.
ped down the river. uo said that he expected Mr..
Gaines would join him at Frankfort with Margaret.
On arriving at Frankfort, he took the slaves on
board the Louisville cars, and departed for that
place.
1t was about 1 O'Clock p. NJ, when l reached
Frankfort. l proceeded Immediately to the Gov.
ernor's office, where | met him in the afternoon.
From him | learned that Mr.. Gaines had left
Frankfort that day, in the morning train Of cars
for Louisville, and had taken Margaret with him,
stating that he wished her to be with the children,
but that he would hold her subject to the requisi-
ton of the Governor of Ohio. i handed him the
requisition and the papers accompanying it, and.
having looked them over he stated that he would
issue his warrant for all the fugitives but as the
papers presented a case different in form from
usual cases, he wished to consult the Attorney Gen
eral, and that he would give me a final answer in
the morning.
10 the meantime he ordered a telegraph to be
sent to Mr.. Gaines, stating the arrival Of the requi
sitiOn, and requesting him to either bring Margaret
to Frankfort the next morning, or hold her in read.
mess for delivery at Louisville. As TO the other
iugitives, he said he believed Mr.. Gaines did not
own them but he had no doubt they would lie
forthcoming should he issue his warrant for their
delivery.
In the morning I waited again upon the Govern.
or, and received from him seperate warrants for
all the f~ugitives. AS Mr.. Gaines had not arrived,
he telegraphed him again, to hold Margaret in
readiness for surrender to me.
After receiving the warrants, I departed on the
first train of cars for Louisville, and reached thai
place about 8 O'Clock in the evening. l proceeded
Immediately to the Jail, and was informed by the
Iiailor that in the morning of that day friday Mr.,
Oulut u tuhCh uo ii JAM intluu-
ing all of the fugitiyes, and shipped them down
the river.
AS the Governor and other gentlemen had ex.
pressed their utmost conviction that the f~ugitives
would be forthcoming, l was unwilling to credit
the statement of the jailor, and having delivered
the warrants into the hands Of the marshal Of
Louisville. | spent Saturday in endeavoring to as.
certain the truth of the jailor's information
Having become satisfied Of it's correctness, and be
leving there would be no use in pursuing the fu
gitiyes farther returned 20 Ohio, leaving however
the warrants in the hands Of the marshal.
On my way up the river, I met an individual
who had been a hand on board the Henry Lewis
the only boat on which Mr.. Gaines could have
shipped the negroes. From him l learned tha
alt the f~agit;ves we're put on board that boat
that when abo1t forty miles distant from Evans
yille, Indiana. the Henry Lewis was run into by
another boat and sunk, and that some twenty
fse passengers persisted and aaeng the rest wa
MsTgsret's babe; that the remainder Ofthe negroea
<ere reshiPped upon another boat for Arkansas, Il
Efieh tAey are now on their way
respectfully.
JOSEPH COOPER.
CSlUusyA March IL, 1876