Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-03

Blagden, were duly held responsible for the
existing shocking pro-slavery condition Of the
city's sentiment, and were berated according
ly Garrison was, decidedly, the most mod
crate Of all the speakers, beseeching the ooun-
try aoolitionists, who had hastened TO the city
to take part in the rescue, not to throw stone
or WELD club, as they valued whole skins;
that monster Pierce having stocked the cards
on them by ordering $50 things-not men
armed and equipped as the military law Oh
rects-to shoot them tho abolitonistsi like dogs,
If thew undertook to raise violent finger
| against tho duo execution of the law, even
| though it might be in vindication IF the cause
of God, the rights of oppressed humanity, and
all that sort Of thing. There were present
some two or three hundred of the craziest
looking fellows We ever set eyes on outside
of the walls Of lunatis hospitals, who had
come down from Worcester aid surround
ing towns. They were the class who were
really anxious to make a riot, some of them
arguing very strongly to induce their Boston
"Bredderin" tojoin in making martyrs of them
selevs in the holy cause of ''Brudder'' Burns
Garrison, May, Prince, and the rest of their
bell-wethers, vehemently discountenanced the
idea as impossible; as all Boston, outside of
her thousand abolitionists, were anxious for the
due execution Of the law, and quite willing to
see them, tthe abolitionistsj shot down like
dogs by the merciless and God forsaken hired
ruihans, who, for shilling or 80 day, stood
ready to obey the signal to NOW them from of
the face Of the earth, with fire and sword.
One OF the country abolition orators up
braided his city brethren for the ridiculous
figure they cut Thus he rehearsal their
flaming notations to them {of the country to
hasten to the rescue, aud described how ali
who had come were disappointed on finding
the chance fer row 80 soon exploded. He
would not call his city brethren rank towards.
whatever country abolitionism mi sht think of
them. He declared, however, that they re-
minded him Of the OK story, which ran as fol-
lows: A neighbor having sold the tainted car
cass OF an OK, his customers demanded, in great
anger, to know whether it had been regularly
slaughtered, or had died Of disease? The
reply was, mot 'zaetly, either; he sort o'gin
eoutH' So, he insisted, the courage of the city
abolitonists had ''sort o gin eout''-amid shouts
OF dcrision from his country brother and sister
crazypeople present. 1t was very solcmnly and
sensibly determined among them, that before
they could venture to defy the law by force OF
arms, they would have to totally revolution
Boston sentinent-a conclusion wonderfully
sound to be arrived at by SO demented a set
Of fanatics, as they showed themselves to be /,
During our short stay in Boston, and on
our return through New England, we met No
man outside of that meeting, or not in or about
the courthouse crowd, who was not for the
prompt and certain execution of the Fugitive
Slave Law, in all cases where bona fde legal
and constitutional claim to the negro can be
established. The 1850 preachers, the old
women and the Sunday school children, may
be very unanimously of a different opinion:
but we met few such either in the hotels, cars
or steamboats,.
Our readers will, therefore, write it down
that not more than a hundred or SO were really
engaged in the riot IN which Batchelder was
killed, and that Boston sentiment will surely
punish his murder to the extent Of the law, on
all who may be proved to have participated
In the outrage. Yet, but for the timely pre-
sence Of the troops of the United States, the
thousand abolitionists present in Boston would
have rescued the negro