The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-11-14
[From lhe Asanthern Ptsss /
NE Esgi!ive TX haw.

We said when this law passed, that u
would not be executed, and were itequent-
" censured by Southern submission pa
pets, for the opinion. W. said few days
since, that il had actually faiIed-only one
might've having been arrested and recover
ed under its provisions-the slave Hamlet,
atNew York, One arrest was made at
/ Detroit, but the excitement was SO great,
that the claimant compromised by taking a
sum ofmoney. and relinquished the claim,
Another slave was arrested in Philadtl-
phia, and there also, great Demonstrations
Of resistance were made, but Judge GRIER
liberated the slave on technical grounds
and as the Independent, 40 abolition pa
per says, ''from a leaning TO rreedom'"--
The Iugitives recovered at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, were arrested under the pre-
vious law.
VIZ referred 10 these facts a few days
since, and asserted that no STAKEHOLDER
would be SAFE in an attempt now to reclaim
a runaway. The Louisville Journal de-
MED this, and asserted the contrary. And
now what have we seenq Two orthree
claimanrs appeared ia Boston, TO recover
Craft and his wife, whose escape from
Georgia Is some what notorious, They OBJ
tanned warrants 10 arrest, and the officer
never dared to serve them. Graft conlln-
ued in open day tospass from hisTesidence
to place oil business. And instead Of the
lngitiyes, the claimants were three times
arrested, first on an action for slandery and
then for attempting to kidnap--and held to
bail ia a sum so large that few strangers
would be able to give the requisite bail OF
$4,000 each. And when the bail was
given, they had 10 hurry into a vehicle al
the very portals Of Tie temple Of jusiice,
and Av Tor their ives from tie fury Of a
mob, excited against them BY hand bills de-
nouncing them as villains, and describing
I their persons as felons-thus
Z "SLAvE HUNTERS IN BOSTON "!
aAuthentic Information has been %reCeiV.
ed Of the arrival in this city Of a slave
catcher from Macon, Georgia, named VIII
liam H. Hewes, or Hughes, bul who en-.
: tered his name at the United States Hotel
X as WIN, Hamilton, OF New York; a short
II rowdyish looking fellow, Ave ieet two
= thirty or forty years Of age, sandy hair
!. red whiskers, black short teeth, chews anC
=, smokes.
"Ee said yesterday, j am the jailor a
Macon, | catch negroes sometim S; an
u here for William and Ellen Crafts, mud nt
one else, and damn 'em, l will have then
il | stay Till eiefuity5 and ii there are no
men ehuugh 10 Massachusetts tutaee then
| win bring them from lhe South. II i
not the niggers ! care fort is the prIn
!, ciple of Tie thing
Y "Alsoa companion Of the above, nance
m John knight, a tall, lank lean looking feI
n low, Gve4cet ten or eleven inches high, dar
hair, about twenty eight years old.
n "Alsoa third professional slave catcher
Alfred BeaI, from Norfolk, a very stou.
thick set, coarse looking man, about ty
feet nine inches high, sandy hair, re
whiskers, upper front teeth btoAen Of, q
= bout forty five years Of age, known 10 b
y on a general hunt.
IAN citizens, and especially all keeper
Of pChotels and boarding houses, are reques
lie ed 10 keep close watch upon them, an
others known 10 he in town"
- ~ MEN or TONllen
ne SHALL THESE VILLIANSREMAIl
HEREq
" ~ III is the princilieo Of the thing" 8
This is understood to be the work
what is called The committee Of %vigilauc
consisting Of one hundred men. No
5e, these things were not done in a corner
rs, in an hour. They are the work Of sever
M DAYS OF an October SUM-" in Boston, Il
ng great commercial capital Of the New En-
is LAND States, and The seat Of government
Massachusetts, end within tweaty miles
las Marshfeld, the country seat Of Mr.. We
srGR, and whilst he was there. and aft
Us he had repeatedly written and spoken
o'e behalf Of the Compromise, Of which Ia
vas Fugitive law is part.
~ lis true tnata majority Of the people
'pu Boston did not take part in this outrage.
" L was not necessary, Butif a mSjori
had been in favor oFthis law, os-oflaw
self when at variance with their sen
hef ments, this law would have been enforce
The Boston Post gives the followi
me account Of the treatment of the claimdn
'llst CRIMINAL MATTERS, Ero.-addition
adj Retahatory StitS in rotation 10 The 4
and gitireS.-. X sterday forenoon John Knia
al witness. and Wallis H,llewes, agent,
search of Crafts and wife, were again
rested by deputy sheriff Coburn, on ci
cav suits for conspiCng 10 kidnap said Crafts
and The damages were, as in the cases stat
10 our last, laid at 10000, and thu dele
dams furnished bail ia that amount. 4
DIS wIits were mada out by Charles List, a
we are Feturnable at the next term OF The co
,are mon pleas. but no one suppose s thai IN