The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-02

THE BOSTON MOB AND THE NEBRASKA BILL.
We perceive that certain journals that proessedy
tend for the supremacy Of the law making effort TO
the late abolition outrage at Boston with the re-
cent passage of the Nebraska b and disposed pail
late its occurrence the ground Of the alleged injustice
done by the passage of that TO the nonsavehod
ing States In taking this false position the enemies Of
the Nebraska measure determined keep sight
the known fact that the passage OF the compromise
acts Of 1850 was followed by similar in Bos
ton The fugitive slave aShadrach from Norfolk
rested in Boston, and taken before Commissioner Curtis
after the Commissioners had adjourned the hearing to
subsequent day mob Of armed negroes and whites be-
the hours of and two o'clock in open day, vo-
eny burst through the doors Of the United States court
ROOM where the fugitive confined under guard of the
United States marshal and about dozen aids and bore
him away in triumph in spite of any resistance made by
the marshal and his deputies
But a few months afterwards Sims another fugitive,
from Savannah Georgia, arrested in Boston and ta-
ken before the commissioner which occasion the United
States marshal resorted to extraordinary to pre-
another outrage upon the laws; but such the eff
feet Of the inHammatory appeals of Phillips, Parker and
other abotionsts and the articles Of the Boston Com
monweathp and the circulation Of handbs in every part
of the city upon the bad passions of the negro population
and other Of the fgtvesave law that matters in
Boston assumed aspect threatening great destruction to
life and property. 1t then now boldly asserted
that the fugitive should not be taken away. The United
States commissioner and other officers Of the law and all
good citizens who declared for the supremacy Of law and
order were subjected violent and bitter nvective and
abuse The mob gathered in such crowds and approached
the courthouse in SO threatening manner and assumed
ally that ii was deemed necessary barcade the hall of
the courthouse and to encrcle it with chain fence The
mayor Of the city ordered the military under arms and
put the watch and police force under military discipline
for extra duty For several days and nights these crcum
stances required that this unusual protective force should
be in constant requisition and by these only
large and acknowledgement crowd armed with pistols
knives slung and other deadly weapons was re-
strained from deeds which must have ended in boodshed
Many negroes arrested in the vicinity of the court
house and punished in the municipal courts for carrying
pistols, dirS-knives, and other weapons
The law of the United States had its Sims was,
by order of the commissioner remanded back to his owner
four o'clock the following morning was placed in
hollow square formed by sufficient body Of men, and
marched board the brig Acorn which took him to S-
vannah An immense throng of aboonsts followed the
guard down the streets sneerng at the officials but attempts
ing no overt act violence Several military companies at
the time their respective armores prepared for
ton at minutes notice 1t then, while Sims was be-
ing borne the OF Boston bay that these abo
onsts reiterated their detesaon of the law and OF its
ecutve officers and emphacaly declared that never again.
while they had life and strength should fugitive slave be
delivered up to his master in Boston Their vigilance
committees thenceorh kept up lively organization and
day and night the movements of the United States
marshal his deputies and all suspected of having the least
official relations with them, closely watched that the
aboonss boosted Of having made their permanent plans
so perfect complete that it impossible for the
shall to cause even the arrest of another fugitive
From that day the present this purpose of the aboi
onsts has been persisted in and whether the Nebraska
bill had passed or not the excitement in Boston, growing
out Of the before the commissioner would have
abuse and lsehood of the aboltoniss in Congress which
have distinguished their speeches against the Nebraska bill
should have produced their expected results in Boston 1t
is well enough that II is The country
acy how far the abooniss would go had they power
execute what they threaten The Unonoving citizens of
the North who have heard the basphemies and denunca
tons OF these wicked men, and have regarded them the
rawlings Of insanity viii perceive the reckless extremes 70
which these would 90 if opportunity offered to
them In this respect the violence of the Boston negroes
and their white associates teaches the country useful
lesson