its infernal sacrifices. Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster,
and their numerous tools, on the Bench, in Commissioners'
seats, and other official stations, or in hopes of gaining
such stations bye and bye, had fallen upon their faces
before the monster idol, and sworn that the victim should
be prepared. Thomas Sims was ordered back to slavery by
Commissioner G.T. Curtis, and was taken from the Court House,
in Boston, early on the morning of April 11th, [1851,] to the
Brig Acorn, lying at the end of Long Wharf, and thence in the
custody of officers, to Savannah, Georgia.

There, after being lodged in jail, and severely and cruelly
whipped, as was reported, he was at length sold, and became
merged and lost in the great multitude of the enslaved
population. The surrender of Sims is said to have cost the
United States Government $10,000; the City of Boston about as
much more; and Mr. Potter, the claimant of Sims, about
$2,400, making a total of some $22,000, directly expended on
the case.

_Vincennes, Indiana, April, 1851._ Four fugitive slaves were
seized, claimed by one Mr. Kirwan, of or near Florence,
Alabama. The magistrate, named Robinson, gave up the
fugitives, and they were taken into slavery.

_In Salisbury Township, Penn., April, 1851_, an elderly man
was kidnapped and carried into Maryland.

_Near Sandy Hill, Chester County, Penn., in March, 1851_, a
very worthy and estimable colored man, named Thomas Hall, was