The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-22
Two Voices from Georgia.

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Mobile.
Two Voices from Georgia.
! The submission presses Of this State, belong
| ing to the buster and back out" school-who
keep sliding the scale of ultimatums, and who
were preparing to back down from their "Geor-
gia PLATFORM" which made the rendition of run
Always the sole condition on which they would
consent to preserve the Union-all Of these
most patriotic" presses are rejoicing Justify
over their narrow escapes in the delivery OF
Sims. We subjoin specimen from one of
these reocings in the Savannah Republican,
whose propretors and senior editor like Mr..
FILLMORE and the editor of the Republic, have
been taught to venerate from early youth" the
down East section of our onfederacy-hailing
originally from the State of Maine.
| 1t will be observed that the Republican deems
the "question settled" by the delivery of a
single slave! and thinks the Union men of the
South may now hold up their heads" This is
a frank admission of their attitude before-but
we rather think it will take stronger levers to
elevate the heads referred to.
The assertions and assumptions of the re-
joicing Republican are so preposterous, that we
deem it unnecessary to do more than merely
italicse come of the most remarkable flights of
fancy and drafts on the credulity of its readers,
which are to be found in the compass Of its
short article After noticing the delivery of
Sims, the Republican says
| t., tbo Marc in, ri IN
f the Shadracl ease, we took occasion 10 say:
/, "The truth is, the Fugitive Stare la,o must be
. executed in Boston. The people of the South
. require that it shall be done, not only as an
atonement for past outrages, but in vindication
2 of the compromise and the supremacy of the
government And we trust that all Southern
!. men who have runaway slaves in Massachusetts,,
= and especially in Boston, will continue their eff
forts to recover them, until the question is settled
j. The law should be tested. 1t should be decided
: practically Observation-Disclosures the country is
y to be governed by Boston mobs or by the ma.
: tonal Congress-
0 Our wish that the law might be tested" and
"executed in Boston, has been fully accom-
plished. We consider the question no,o as prac-
ticaly decided" not only in Boston, bla in all New
England There was more doubt MS to the en-
forcement of the law there than anywhere else in
hold of fanaticism. That doubt having been re-
moued-the law having been executed in open
dav, and under the very nose of the legislature,
in spite of all the efforts and denunciatory meet
ings of the Aboltionsts-our people may for the
future dismiss oil opprehcnsions upon the subject
and rest confident that their rights wiH betuiiy sus
tained
The thanks of the whole country are due to
Mr. Potter for The energetic manner in which he
has prosecuted his claim. A man Of large wealth,
he could very easily have afforded to lose the
slave. But resolved TO test the law, he informed
his agents that ten thousand dollars could not
buy the slave-indeed, that he would not part
with him for any consideration. His object was
more the establishment of the law than the re-
covery of the negro. HIS determination has been
The means, ace hope, Of putting the question to resi-
forever.
The Union men of The South may now hold up
their heads. The result shows that their conf
dence in The ability and Willingness Of the govern
men 10 enforce Emery part of The compromise, has
not been misplaced We feel glad, too, that
Boston has offered this otonement for past OUT
RACES" and that she has relieved herself of the
foul blot which she suffered her enemies, ia m
, ungunrded moment to cast upon her ancient re-
nown. Having taken step in the right direc-
, ton, we trust she will continue in it until the
laws are successfully indicated, and she restored
to the confidence of her Southern brethren.
There may be those amongst us who will regret
the result of the present case, but let them go.
They carry within their bosoms their own pun
q ishment
n Now this is one voice. But in far different
! tone and spirit speaks another editor, also a
: Wing, but differing in this from his former ally
that he is a native Georgian, and to the man.
+ or born. Thus sternly and scornfuly speaks
: out the editor Of the Augusta Republic, rebuk-
I. ing these rejoicngs" over the solitary demon
stration which has been made by the merchants
! of Boston, and her authorities, towards the per-
n Torrance, not of tdpor, but n duty, which they
owe to common honesty and common faith.
His editorial is in response to the Chronicle
e. .Senfinel---a co-laborer with the Republican
THE BosroS FUcIrIvE CAsE.--Tt will be seen
s by reference to our telegraphic head that Sims,
the fugitive slave from Savannah. has been de-
livered up to the agent Of his owner by the au-
> thorities in Boston, and that he is now on his
way to Savannah This is certainly an unkind
cut on the part Of the Abolitonists and dis
unionists Of Boston, to their disunion allies In
the South, and which they will not readily for
, give them, thus to permit fugitive slave TO be