The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-15
More Fugitives tom Boston


gle her condolences with Georgia--her citizens
having been treated also with contempt, and
their rights scoffed at and disregarded
Less determined, however, than the Goorgians,
the North Carolinians escaped open insult and
Outrage by quietly beating retreat They
adopted the true spirit of the Compromise, and
agreed if the people of Boston would not arrest
them, that the matter should be adjusted by their
abandonment of the claim.
Let US "REJoIoE" at their fortunate escape
We find these particulars in the Raleigh
Standard, which is unpafriotic" enough to
growl little.
4 The tone of the narrative, and the apologize
way In which the owner palliates the outrage,
Is not the least curious part of the transaction
How many other persons have "acquiesced"
in the operation of the Higher law in Boston,
quietly and uncomplainingly We have no means
OF knowing. Occasionally q new instance leaks
out like this. ..~.. .... ...
We do know, however, that the twenty or
thirty thousand fugitives in the Northern States
must have been blessed with remarkably bashful
and backward owners. The readiness with which
some Of them take a hint from those practical
jokers at Boston Is creditable to their quickness
of perception.
The Fayetteville Carolinian, speaking of the
outrages conduct Of the citizens of Boston on
account OF the Fugitive slave law, says: .-
ION Thursday last, we say citiZeno of Fayette-
vile, just returned from Boston, after an unsuc-
cessful demand for his slaves. He found that it
was useless to attempt to execute the law. That
part of the population not active in resisting the
law, were perfectly passire and although he
thinks that large majority of the people We're
in favor Of executing the law, they yet take no
steps to accomplish it. We think, however, he
is mistaken. If 4 majority were piUing to exc
cute it, there would soon be found ,oay to do
it. He was very politely told that he was not
safe in the city, and that he had better not stay
They We're very anxious about his safety The
officers of the law all declared, without trying,
however, that they could not execute the law"
On Saturday last We had long and interest
ing conversation with distinguished citizen of
this State, who accompanied the Fayetteville
gentleman, of whom the Carolinian speaks, to
Boston, with the view of reclaiming some es-
capped slaves. The slaves had been in Boston,
length Informed by a police oficerw consented
to serve them. This was the information thew
received but there is no certainty it WIS correct.
The slaves may b. there now, concealed by the
Abolitionists; but if their owncrs had succeeded
in getting them III possession, under an order
from Judge or Commissioner, we have no iden,
from all that we have learned, that they could
have returned in safety with them, or indeed
have brought them back at ALL They would
have been compelled to encounter mob in
Boston, and mobs in Worcester, Springfield, and
Hartford, on their way home--mobs of thou
sands of excited whites and furious blacks,
which no posse comitatus called out by the Mar
sha could have resisted or put down. GEORGE
Thompson, the English Abolitonist ia received
with S outs and honors IN Fanueil Hall, and
Amin Bry, the Envoy Of Mohammedan despot,
Is toasted and dlned in the city OF Boston, while
two OF the most Intelligent and respectable cit-
zens OF North Carolina, who had gone there in
the exercise of their legal Constitutional rights,
are foiled in their efforts even to get sight of
their property-their footsteps logged by enc
mies--a.d they advised to leave forthwith to
avoid insult and injury to their persons. Is
ihis the Union which our fathers formed?
s-g New York is very progressive city
From the annexed notice which we find in
Noah's Sunday Times, it would seems that the
plan Of advertising for wives is getting into
vogue:
DEPLoRABLE WANT-We never wanted
n wife in our life. Our imag alton can scarcely
span the deplorability of such n want. Heaven
knows. wives are plenty enough, and there are
widows, too, without number. We never could
the idea that good-looking young
man, of descent habits, and in possession of res
pectable business, could want wife very long.
AS 4 general thing 1--WE write this with all due
Difference to the ladcs) the trouble among men
is how to get rid Of wife, and not how to pro-
cure one. We have, in our minds eve, young
friend who has not yet comprised his twenty
ninth year, and he has already had four wives,
and is on tho lookout for fifth. Seriously, q
worthy young man, according to our notions Of
marital arrangements. can always get q worthy
young woman to unite her destinies with his,
and fiat, too, without assuming any extra amount
OF trouble. 1t strikes US that when man is
driven to the necessity of advertising for help
mate, he i altogether an improper prospective
Benedict. What estimate can he who vulgarly
blazons forth in. print his desire to wed place
upon the modesty and propriety of the female
sex y! He must imagine the ladies' to be quite as
self. He must, indeed, look upon them as so
many hopeless creatures ready 10 snap at any
offer from any source. And what female, imbued
with even the slightest attributes of woman,
would 80 far degrade herself as to answer in
advertisement for wife? These remarks We're
yesterday by the receipt Of letter
which enclosed an advertisement headed, "Wife
Wanted" Accompanying tho advertisement
(Which we inserD was the following private
despatch We print it rerbuim:
(Eaclcsed is s3 to pay for troubc.)
Editor Si;aJay Times:
SIR--You will have the kindness to insert the
nolosed advertisement in your paper, drawing
the attention ofyour fair readers etiitoraly to the
sane, assuring them it is honoralel and truth
fully intended for what ilpurports, and should
answer the purpose, depend oil II bottle of wine
and cake
iremain yours, &c,
Now York, Nov 8, 1850 p.I.JAMES.
Well, we hope it wont nnswrr the purpose.
We should be sorry to drinE tho :, lie, or cat the
cake, of any couple matrimor,aily brought to