The southern press., 1850-10-31
rhe Fugitive slsve Law.

The Fugitive Slave Law.
We said when this law passed, that it would
bt be executed, and were frequently censured
Southern submission papers, for the opinion.
We said few days since, that it had actually
iled---only one fugitive having been arrested
nI recovered under its provisions-the slave
[amlet, at New York. One arrest was made at
Detroit, but the excitement was SO great, that
le claimant compromised by taking sum Of
honey, and relinquished the claim. Another slave
as arrested in Philadelphia, and there also, great
demonstrations of resistance were made, but
udge GRIER liberated the slave on technical
rounds--and as the Independent, an abolition
aper says, from leaning TO freedom The
ugitive srecovered at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
we're arrested under the previous law. .
We referred to these facts few days since,
Ind asserted that no STAKEHOLDER would be safe
n an attempt now to reel i'm a runaway. The
Louisville Journal denied this, and asserted the
contrary. And now what have wc seen Two
br three claimants appeared in Boston, to recover
Craft and his wife, whose escape from Georgia
Is somewhat notorious. They obtained warrants
to arrest, and the officer never dared to serve
Them Craft continued in open day to rass from
his residence to place Of business. And instead
of the fugitives, the claimants were three times
arrested, first on an action for sla9der and then
for attempting to kdnap-and held to bail in 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 to hurry into
vehicle at the very portals of the temple OF
justice, and fly for their lives from the fury of a
mob, excited against them by hand bills, de-
nouncing them as villains, and describing their
persons as felons--thus
SLAVE HUNrERs IN BosToN!!!
ssAuthentic Information has been received Of
. the arrival in this city of slave catcher from
Macon, Georgia, named William HI. Hewes, or
Hughes, but who entered his name at the United
| States Hotel, as VIM. Hamilton, Of New York
a short, rowdyish looking fellow, five feet two,
thirty forty years of age, sandy hair, red whisk-
ers black short teeth, chews and smokes.
. He said yesterday, i am the jaior at Macon,
/ catch negres sometimes; am here for William
and Ellen Crafts, and no one else, and damn 'em,
will have them if stay till eternity; and if there
are not men enough in Massachusetts, to take
them, will bring them from the South. 1t is not
the niggers care fort is the principle of the
thing. ar ....a ,..sa.@z Zz =
Also companion of the above, named John
knight, tall, lank, lean looking fellow, five feet
ten or eleven inches high, dark hair, about twenty.
eight years old. .s5.et
Also third professional save catcher, Alfred
Beal, from Norfolk, very stout, thick-set oasse
looking man, about FIVE feet nine inches high,
sandy hair, red whiskers upper front teeth broken
off, about forty-fve years Of age, known to be on
general hunt. ae#
All citizens, and especially all keepers OF
hotels and boarding houses, requested to keep
close watch upon them, and others known to be
in town. .s sss... I..s. "A a
~ JME.E OF BOSTON,! -EE
SHALL THESE WILLIAMS REMAIN HERE
Ls" Ills the principIe Of the hing" 80
This is understood to be the work of what is
called the committee of vigilance, consisting Of
one hundred men. Now these things were not
done in corner or in an hour. They are the
work of several days of an October sun" il
Boston, the great commercial capital Of the New
England States, and the seat of government Of
! Massachusetts, and within twenty miles ol
\ Marshfeld, the country seat Of Mr.. WEBSTER, and
whilst he was there, and after he had repeatedly
D written and spoken in behalf ofthe Compromise
1 Of which this Fugitive law is part.
1t is true that majority Of the people Of
Boston did not take part in this outrage. Il
was not necessary. Buff a majority had been in
favor of this law, or of law itself when at vari
ance with their sentiments, this law would have
been enforced. @*# ~
The Boston Post gives the following account
Of the treatment of the claimants: .i, ...@#
CRIMINAL MATTERS, ETC Additional Refaliator.
Suits in relation to the Fugitiues. Yesterday fore
noon John Knight, witness, and Willis III
Hewes, agent, in search Of Crafts and wife, were
again arrested by deputy sheriff Coburn, on civi
v suits for conspiring to kidnap said Crafts. TIE
damages were, as in the cases stated in our last
laid at $4,000, aed the defendents furnished ba
in that amount. The wrils were made out by
Charles List, and are returnable at the next term
Of the common pleas. but no one supposes that
they will ever be entered and prosecuted to judg.
ment. The arrest caused the collection Of large
crowd in Court square, consisting chiefly Of white
people, mixed up with whom were some colored
men, who were on hand to ssspot" the defendants
Several went up into Tudor's Building, where
Mr. Coburn has his Office, for this purpose. l,
was intended that both defendants should leave the
building by the entrance on Court square, and a
carriage was brought there for that purpose, but
Hewes only had time to get into it before the rush
.
driver found it necessary to clear the track by
whipping up his team and starting off at a smart
pace. One man who was a little too near the of
horse was spread out in front Of Parker's estab-
lishment, but not seriously hurt by the fall. Some
of the more excited rescuers after the carriage
utterng various exclamationsan and outcries. About
twenty minutes after Hewes was driven off,
Knight got into cab at the Court street door OF
the building, and was driven off without molesta-
ton. 1t was authoritatively stated yesterday,
that the badly spet letter, purPorted to have been
written by him TO Crafts, and so printed ia some
Of the papers, was neither written nor sent by him.
From 6 to 8 last evening, Court square was
again filed with an exciting multitude, chiefly
colored, some Of whom displayed pistols. An
other pair Of writs for conspiracy had been placed
in the hands Of the deputy sheriff, and it was sup
posed that he would again bring the defendants to
his Office in Tudor's building, but he arranged the
matter otherwise. 1t is allie ged in these writs that
there was also conspiracy to kidnap Craft 8
wife. As soon as it was understood that the third
arrest and bailing process had been effected else-
vbere. the crowd disnersed. One coored man.