Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-26
Execution Of The Fugitive Slave Law.

In reply to an article in the Chronicle and Sen
<H, gong oil into estates at the late delivery of
SIMS to his owner, the Augusta Republic makes
the following well-timed and sensible remarks
According to the case SO forcibly put by the Re
public, II these Union bedaubing gentry intend to
carry their threats into execution with which they
have been protuse, in case of the non-execu-
ton, in good faith of the fugitive slave law, it is
high time they had commenced their operations.
There never more ridiculous farce than the
idea of resistance threatened by the federal party
under the fraudulent and stolen name of Union
men, with Fillmore, Clay and Webster as leaders,
They talk about resistance The Yankees are
right IN treating their threats with utter contempt
and scorn they richly deserve it, for they've
speak OF the leaders and their press generally
have no idea of resistance for any aggression past
present or to come Colunbia TeleqraDh
The delivery of Sims to the agents of his own
er, the Chronicle and Sentinel calls the faithful
execution Of tie ttyitipe stare lar!
That paper seems to rejoice that this act of
erteme iberai0y to the South and .fdeIjty to the
law, affords a prospect of booming the disunion-
lists, (as it terms the Southern Rights men, to an
Inhalation. Massachusetts, owes to the South the
fugitive slaves within her limits. Efforts have
been made to get several of them back. We lost
the two Crafts and Shadrach and recovered
Sims.
If getting ought to doom the Southern
Rights party to destruction what effect should the
loss OF THREE have upon the submisSiOnists Some
people seem to get drunk on single drop of COM
fort:
A faithful execution of the law indeed It's
like some of the other executions of the law
When costs have been subtracted we should like
to know how much has been gained We shall
after while.
There never was a palmer case in the world
Sims was the fugitive slave of Mr.. Potter beyond
dispute, yet the case was kept in court and before
the commissioner whole week 1t was necessa-
ry to guard HIM with heavy police, in the third
story of the courthouse The building was sur
rounded with a barricade of chains Hundreds
of the military had to be kept guard to prevent
his forcible rescue The whole case looks more
like successful farce than any thing else. Look
at some of the incidents. Mr.. Fletcher Webster
is imprisoned Marshal Tuckey is held to bail il
the sum of thousand dollars-Mr. Bacon and Mr.
DeLyon, the agents of Mr.. Potter, were arrested
on charge of conspiracy to kidnap, and had t.
give bail to the amount of ten thousand dollars
one OF the agents having narrowly escaped being
struck upon the head by negro named Randolph
II MS arm had not been caught by an officer the
lie Oh Southern man would have been sacrificed
IN an effort to recover fugitive slave under law
OF the country. This is the faithful execution o
the law 1t is the military execution of it. /
was an execution of it at great cost and iminen
hazard 1t was such an execution of it as will pre-
vent nineteen persons in twenty from attempting
to recover their slaves at ALL
The mayor of Worcester, Mass, lately elected
says he shall adhere to the law of that State pas
sea IN l843, making it penal for its citizens to as
sst IN arresting fugitive slaves.