Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19
THE END OF THE BOSTON SLAVE CASE.

FROM THE NEW ToRK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
Commissioner CURTIs's decision in full occupies
more than four columns Of the Boston Journal, the
Commissioner having thought il necessary to estab-
lish beyond all future cavl his constitutional right
to adiudicate such case.
The whole business, we suppose, may now be
considered virtually disposed Of, and few refec-
tions on il may be seasonable. When Shadrach
was suddenly rescued, some papers here raised the
cry that the people Of Boston had nulli6ed the
law that Massachusetts was in open rebellion
against the laws Of the United States. Weprotest-
ed against any such conclusion being drawn from an
isolated case of rescue, attributable to sudden
ci,ement on the part Of the coored population and
unwaschfulna(g On the part of those who had the
fugitive ii charge. The people of Boston have
now abundantly disproved the charges so nnjusily
made against them. Before the Senate committee,
appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Sheriff
and other State officers relative to the alleged non
service of certain warrants in the case of Sims,
Marshal Tukey testified that nearly two thousand
men had volunteered to keep the peace and prevent
the rescue, if attempted, of the fugitive on his de-
parture for Georgia. This volunteer force was
composed of almost every cass--mechanics, truck
men, caulkers, iremen, merchants bank directors,
tradesmen, &c. After this we shall surely hear no
more about Boston repudiatng her constitutional
obligations or multiplying the laws. We could not
believe that to be the character of the Boston peo
ple Their habits and education may cause dislike
Of the fugitive slave law, butt while it is law, they
will allow no mob of reckless agtators to set at de-
fance or 0verturn it. a.as5 rs s,ssi a3
Il would be easy, in view Of these facts, to expa-
tate generally upon submission to law by the Ame-
rican people generally and to extol institutions
and forms of government; but such is not our pre-
sent purpose. Yet it does seem desirable that the
public generally should carefully review the entire
history Of this fugitive slave case in Boston, that
they may ever hereafter rightly estimate the num-
Der and influence of those who have assumed to
oppose the laws Of their country, and have noisly
boasted of their determination not to allow fugi-
tive slave to be taken from their midst. The whole
facts of the case pour the utmost contempt upon
the agitators and demagogues who rally under the
banner of Garrison, Phillips, Colver and Company,
and prove them to be nothing more dlan mere
handful Of noisy takers and reckless declaimers,
without a millionth part Of the selfsacrihcng
courage which they so loudly profess, and for which
some persons, perhaps, have given them credit. II
the press generally would abstain from giving cir
cuation to their incendiary trades and leave them,
as many better men are left to procure audiences and
influence by their own inherent talents, they would
die out in less than six months.
While the case of Sims was pending, these Sc
ditiOn-makers were most violent IN speech, ana any
one who did not know them would have supposed
that by thousands their adherents would rally to
the rescue determined to effect il even if half their
number were moved down in the conflict. How
utterly ludicrous is the result; how much beneath
the contempt one naturally feels for an ordinary
coward, have these tongue-heroes, these vaunting
vaants, fallen! They do moi even " "interpose
their bodies" or appear in the streets, when the
time comes for fulfilling their loud threats. All
the courage excited at anti-save-law meetings
eyanishes not at the booming of the guns from the
navy yard but at the resoute bearing of Marshal
Tukey and his men, backed by the moral sentiment
and the volunteered aid of the people Of Boston
A bitter lesson Of humiliation these noisy agtaiors
ought to have learned, but there some men who,
If brayed in a mortar, lose not their distinctive
character.
Another thing he's been made plain, which should
no, be lost sight of. The ultra Abolitionists have
thrown off the mask and must hereafter be regard
ed in their true character. They HAVE TAUGHT
sEDrTIoN, under circumstances most favorable to
the nculcaon of that reasonable doctrine, and they
have thereby shut themselves out from the sympa-
thies of every true lover of his country. They
have counseled openly, in their momentary excite
ment, armed resistance to their felloW-cifise,s
,cho desired to execute the La,cs under the profec-
tion Of ,chich they haze iued in common. They
have commended and sxhorsed 70 the use OF guns