Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-19
The Boston Slave Case,

ing consequent thercupon as far as thew were
then Known The conclusion of the affair is
summed up in the following tolegraphic dis
patch from the Pittsburgh Gazette of Monday
BosToN, April IL.
During last night, there was but little exc;to.
ment in the city. The watchmen and polico
were under military drill until O'Clock this
morning, when they halted in body in front of
the cast door Of the Court House. The fngitive
slave Sims was then brought from the place of
his confinement, and placed in the area, when
tho whole force moved in a body down State
street, to the long wharf, where Sims was de-
posted on board tho brig Acorn, Capt. Coomcs
The brig was then towod down the harbor nv
the steamer Hornet, and is now probably undct
good headway for Savannah.
Several officers accompanied the Captain, and
the whole affair passed of very quietly. There
were from three to four hundred watchmen and
policemen, in tho column, all armed and equip-
ped. The military were not seen at ALL but
were kept in readiness in case of Mood.
The U. Statos Marshal, Downs, and tho City
Marshal, Tukey, were in the column, ns also tho
U. States Deputy Marshals.
Tho spectators who followed the procession
down to the brig, did not exceed 100 in number.
There was no disturbance, except little his
sing.
Massachusetts is thus redeemed and tie saepreD,a
cy Of the ia,es eindicated.
massachusetts redeemed :" by consigning
human being to slavery under tho acquisitions
of law whose atrocity finds no parallel even
in the legislation of despotic govcrnmcnts.-
" Redeemed" by deed which outragos every
principle of her Constitution, furnishes the
brightest page Of her history, insults the memo
ry of her founders, makes tho angels weep and
raises an oxultant chorus in hell
We viii now go back and present some of
the most important incidents in the history Of
this case.
1t has already been stated that after the arrest
of Sims, the Court House IAN immense stone
structure) was surrounded by a chain, inside of
which were stationed police officers to keep the
people from approaching the scat of justice. (!)
Richard II. Dana, Jr., "a young lawyer of Bos-
ton and author Of Two Years before the Mast,
in a speech at Worcester, said:
should like to take every man, woman, and
child of you, and show YOU the spectacle that
tho capital of your own old Commonwealth
presents at this moment. You will there Sec If
you have not already seen, the great Temple of
Justice for this Commonwealth, actually chain
cd around, 50 that not judge, juror, counsellor,
or witness, can enter into this temple OF JUS
ticc, except by bowiug their heads under this
chain, sensation. stretched there by the slave
power, [cries of "shamc" to ensure the cap
turo and return to slavery of a man alleged TO
be a fugitive. Renewed cries of shame. l.
This, fellow citizens, is no cXaggeration; the
reports you may have heard, and the pictures
you may have seen, represent the truth, to
which every man who has witnessed will testify.
Had boan in ROsfon would hayo
the venerable Chief Justice Of your Common
wcatl,. bowing slss- hnnd to the ground under
that chain you would have seen the Chief
Justice of the Court Of Common Pleas, walk
up to that chain, withshis free soil heart, (for
that's in him,) and demand that that chain
should be removed, and the officers in charge
refused lie has since issued an order for its
removal, and that order-Qoud checrs) STOP
don't give your applause too soon.-that order
has been disobcycd (Scnsation, and cries of
"shame.") And it will be disobeyed tell
you, that there is not moral force enough in the
city of Boston, TO execute the laws of the Com
monwcalth / myself, being younger than the
Chief Justice, have managed to get OVER that
chain, whenever l have gone into the Court
House; and if cannot go in so, shall not go
in at all. Loud applause.l A few hours ago,
took with me, the noble candidate for the 4th
District, DIR. Palfrey, whose almost bleeding
heart was afresh wounded, to sec that chain,
and such a spectacle around tho Court House of
Boston. said to him, can you got over the
chain y He replied, "If l cannot, will 60
home" (Cheers.)
Tho Commonwealth says:
The fact that persons desiring ndmttnncc to
the Court of Common Pleas, have been denied
entrance, was brought to tho notice of Chief
Justice Wells, by John A. Bollcs, Esq, who
read the aflidavits of several persons setting
forth these facts. The Judge instantly cited
officer Jones (thc party complained of before
him, and stated that neither the Mayor, nor the
U. S. Marshal had any right to obstruct the en-
trance to his Court. Not only witnesses and
parties, but EVERY SPECTATOR has right to be
present in that Court and the Chief Justice
directed Sheriff Evcloth to sec by whose au-
thority this contempt of Court was committed,
and to take care that access TO the Court Room
should be free.
A gentleman anxious to visit tho Court House
was told by an officer in attendance, that he
could not be admitted, not even with a card en-
| dorsed by Gen. Dcyons, the Marshal, which he
held in his hands. The only way of getting in,
he said, would be to wait until the Marshal
with his friends passed in, give the password
| that he was a Southern gentleman, and the way
would be open.
The hounds of the kidnappcrs carried mat
ters so far as to forbid persons having business
in tho courts to pass through the corridor lead.
ing past the U. S. Marshals office, while the
hearing before Commissioner Curtis was pro-
ceeding in that room.
An application for haDeas corpus was made
before the full bench Of the State Supreme
Court, but unanimously denied after argument
Chief Justice Shaw said case might arise un
der tho operation of the Fugitive act which
would call for such writ, but it could not b.
issued in this instance.
Judge Woodbury., Of the U. S. Circuit Court
issued ha6eas corpus, and after the parties wer
brought before him, consigned the fugitiv
again to the custody of tho Marshal. Their
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