Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-11-06
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. I

WAsnISsroN. Ocr. %, 1850.
Important rom Boston, Determination ofthe Ma,shaL
1he Lao Of '93 in Boston, The duty Of the North
Course Of the South, &C. s
Private advces from Boston render it probable tha.
ugitiveslave riot will come off Tomorrow or some
day this week, and that the law uiN be enf;yce9, at
all hazards, without any interference on the part of
the federal executive. The marshal will summon
posse under the act and the &C, ,oiN be enforced We
shall see whether the Bostonians will countenance
resistance 10 TO- the law, and practical notification Of
the law. Their action will give tone to public sen.
tlmen in all the Northern States on this subject II
Is with them to decide the question whether the law
can be enforced or not Mr.. Winthrop, Mr.. Horace
Mann, and MIR. Quincy, and Mr.. J. &. Whittier az.
sert that 1t ca,not be executed.
Mr.. Quincy, true to his peculiar princn1es advis.
es resistance. With view to encourage it, he as.
serts that no fugitive has been delivered up in
Massachusetts, under the act Of 1898. He is mis-.
taken as TO the fact. could refer to very promi.
nen1 case, occurring in the year 1919. SoGe slaves
eioPed from King George county, Virginia. and were
conveyed in vessel from Fredericksburg to Boston.
They were arrested under that act, in the town of
Dedham, near Boston. The agent and counsel for
the claimants was the Hon. Samuel l.. Southland. a
Judge of New Jersey. and afterwards Senator and
; six years member Of The Cabinet under the admin.
istratloEs of Monroe and J. Q. Adams. The slaves
were delivered up as fugitives from labor and service
and without any mob, riot, or resistance.
There were no objections to The law in Massachu.
se,ts till after the year 1888. After that time there
were decisions that slaves brought by their owners
into the State and remaining there, no, fug,ives
But there was never of refusal TO deliver IN
fugitive, of forcible resistance to the act of 1885
The first case of refusal to deliver up fugitive
was in New York. and BY Gov. Seward. A slavefrom
Virginia was claimed as fugitive from Justice and
from labor, and Gov. Seward, upon some technical
oint, refused to surrender him, at The demand of
Gov. Gimer, Of Virginia.
Congress however attempted, by another and more
efcacious law. to give effect TO the constitutional
provision. If the new law cannot be executed. it
will remain for the Southern States to decide what
measures of resentment, retaliation, or redress thew
shall adopt. Many men in the Southern States have
considered this question, sod decided that they will
not on that account alona consider dissolution of
the Union as necessary: 'rhey will, nevertheless,
consider the conduct of Northern people as unjust,
; faithless, and unprincpled.
1t is to be apPrehended, however, that in some re.
sPects there will be a majority in favor of retaatory
measures-measures already contemplated and even,
in some cases. already resorted to. 1t will be re-.
nenbered that therevolution was ushered in by re-
taliatory legislation, by non-in,ercourse, and non.
consumption laws-in Massachusetts, in virginia.
ana othef STATES. Ion.