ANOTHER SIMS CASE IN BOSTON June 2, 1854
Since the Revolution of 1776, Boston has never witnessed such a popular excitement — the Commonwealth has never been so convulsed, through all the ramifications of society — as during the past week — and ‘the end is not yet’. ……..
Pursuant to a warrant issued in this city on Wednesday, 24th inst., by United States Commissioner Edward G. Loring, — authorizing the arrest of Anthony Burns, a negro, an alleged fugitive from the ‘service and labour’ of Charles F. Suttle, a merchant of Alexandria, Va., — the United States Marshall apprehended, on the evening of that day, at the corner of Brattle and Court streets, the person named in the writ. Burns was noiselessly conveyed to the Court House, where he passed the night in the keeping of the Marshall. ……………..
(Liberator, June 2, 1854, pg 2)
