Several military
companies also were called out by the city authorities, and
kept in readiness night and day to act against the people,
should they attempt the deliverance of Sims; Faneuil Hall
itself being turned into barracks for these hirelings of
slavery. Every effort was made by S.E. Sewall, Esq., Hon.
Robert Rantoul, Jr., and Charles G. Loring, Esq., to save
Sims from being returned into slavery, and Boston from the
eternal and ineffaceable disgrace of the act. But in vain.
The omnipotent Slave Power demanded of Boston a victim for
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.
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