Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-04-15
SIMS AWARDED TO HIS MASTER.

On Saturday morning. by the Pney Point line we recev.
ed the Baltimore papers Of Friday afternoon some hours In
advance OF the mail They brought Us the first information
that on Friday the u s. Commissioner ut Boston gave his
decision awarding Sims his MASTER He was still in the
custody of The Marshal awaiting the decision OF Judge Wood
bury on the writ of habsas corpus applied for by Charles
SUMNER the of S!ms the warrant for assautns
The officer who arrested him. Judge w. give his de-
cision on Friday afternoon.
OF the fugitive the Savannah Republican gives tho fol-
lowing account:
The boy Tom Grimes belonging to JAMES po-7rE, Esq,
whose escape from this city and capture in Boston We
liced yesterday s the Of Hinda coored woman
living here inad given the late Mrs Porter by
her grandmother aud in order TO crafty this servant Mr.
Porter consented give her children their me ia order
20 enable them learn trades that they might reside
their mother and purchase their iretdom the price vi
which fixed very low figure. brother of ON
in the euaon as himself and away to Ohio,
but caught in Tennessee and brought back and now
at regular work In town Tom learned his trade OF MIR.
SHORT builder In this city, and could get from Mr.
SHORT else day for every day he chose TO
work During the tco ysars past he has paid HI. master
only month"; S0f and hi, done by The inter
.esson and ertreaty of his oun mother Hence 1t ap
pears that the honest acquisition OF hia freedom
a matter OF easy accomplishment-ihc work, say, Of
two or three years. But, freed from the whole
rcstrants OF regular labor he has chosen TO try
the of folly and wckednes and remains TO be
whether the lave of the country will be vndicaed in his
case
The name of the vessel in which Tom escaped Is known
here but 1t Is necessary to mention It, She cleared for
Boston the Goth of February As regards Toms northern
attachments may be assumed that as nc has Cny been ao-
sent little mUre month"; they have hardly acquired tina,
consistency which long residence anino qnena is cup
posed 10 confer Altogether, think that II The pseudo
hi!anthropiss Of Boston arc ever by any chance the
habit Of heatng the truth hs case OF Tom Will sv" them
of thoughtful consideration. Mr. Potter tho master
Of the fugitive personal friend of the late Harrison Gray
Otis he is well known 10 the Hon. Samuel Appleton, OF
Boston, member Of Congress, and TO other citizens OF
that place. We need hardly add that in all the requisites o
honesty benevolence Christian charity and n all the other
virtues which adon the character OF gentleman good
citizen and patriot he leaves the very best W there be any
c,t 10 such category Of the Boston agatos at an I'M
measurable distance behind him.
Saturday. mail and ,eoy graph brought the gratifying n
esencr ,a, Sims had been delivered up ami was Sat
irluy morning. shipped oil for Savannah We rejoice that
Boston has length cleared her skirts OF the nfan'ou:
sehcmes and tricks Of the fanatics and typocr,cu villains
seeing that The Constitution as been carried out the laws
vndca,cd The miserable prctezts wero raised TO De
cnt tho snds Of usi!cebut they all oicd BY the on
gy and rnness OF the city authorities and the u S. Judi
c!aIy aud officers.