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
forcibly seized, his house being broken into by three armed
ruffians, who beat him and his wife with clubs.
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