In proof of it, he says his mother belonged to James Bibb, which is a lie, there not having been such a man about here, much less brother of Secretary Bibb.  He says that Bibb’s daughter married A.G.  Sibly, when the fact is Sibly married Judge David White’s daughter, and his mother belonged to White also and is now here, free.

     So you will perceive he is guilty of lying for no effect,
     and what might it not be supposed he would do where he could
     effect anything by it.

I have been more tedious than I should have been, but being anxious to give you his rascally conduct in full, must be my apology.  You are at liberty to publish this letter, or make any use you see proper of it.  If you do publish it, let me have a paper containing the publication—­at any rate let me hear from you again.

Respectfully yours, &c,
Silas Gatewood.

To C.H.  Stewart, Esq.

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[No. 3.  An Extract.] Cincinnati, March 10, 1845.

My dear sir:—­Mrs. Path, Nickens and Woodson did not see Bibb on his first visit, in 1837, when he staid with Job Dundy, but were subsequently told of it by Bibb.  They first saw him in May, 1838.  Mrs. Path remembers this date because it was the month in which she removed from Broadway to Harrison street, and Bibb assisted her to remove.  Mrs. Path’s garden adjoined Dundy’s back yard.  While engaged in digging up flowers, she was addressed by Bibb, who was staying with Dundy, and who offered to dig them up for her.  She hired him to do it.  Mrs. Dundy shortly after called over and told Mrs. Path that he was a slave.  After that Mrs. Path took him into her house and concealed him.  While concealed, he astonished his good protectress by his ingenuity in bottoming chairs with cane.  When the furniture was removed, Bibb insisted on helping, and was, after some remonstrances, permitted.  At the house on Harrison street, he was employed for several days in digging a cellar, and was so employed when seized on Saturday afternoon by the constables.  He held frequent conversations with Mrs. Path and others, in which he gave them the same account which he has given you.

On Saturday afternoon, two noted slave-catching constables, E.V.  Brooks and O’Neil, surprised Bibb as he was digging in the cellar.  Bibb sprang for the fence and gained the top of it, where he was seized and dragged back.  They took him immediately before William Doty, a Justice of infamous notoriety as an accomplice of kidnappers, proved property, paid charges and took him away.

His distressed friends were surprised by his re-appearance in a few days after, the