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THE ATi,
THTHiclx Loved. Secrfc-
“ I love yon, mother,” said little John;
Then, forgetting his work, his cup went on*
And he was olf to tho garden awing,
And left her wood and water to bring.
“ I love you, mother,” aaid Kosy Nell;
“ I love you better thnn tongue can tell.”
Then she teased and pouted full half the day,
Till her mother rejoiced when she wentto play >
“ I love yon, mother,” aaid little Fau;
“ To-day I’ll help'yon all I can ;
IkiW^lad . cm that school doesn’t keep!”
So she rocked the bnby till it fell asleep.
Then stepping softly she fetched the broom,
Ami swept the floor and tidied tho room;
Busy and happy all day was she,
Helpful and happy as child could be.
“Hove you, mother,” again they said—
Throe little children going to bed.
How do you think that mother guessed
Which of them really loved her best!
J fore* making any detailed statement j lie sworn as a witness eapabu
with regard to liis arrest and deten. ing evidence.”
tion in Boston. He had been con j “ Mr. Judge,” said the fool, “may
stantly thinking over the matter and j I ax the lawyer a question ?”
cudgeling his memory to liring out j “ Certainly,” s-dd the judge,
all the facts connected with ’hat | “ Well, ’hen, Mr. Lawyer, who
eventful period of his life, as acenr- j d’ye >’pose made yon
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SIMMS’ SLAVERY.
A UKMIXISCKXCK OP AltOl.lTlOMSU rtVEXTY-
SIX YEARS AOO.
[Nashville American.]
Very soon after Mr. Ilayes’ ap»
pointmeul' of Gou. Devens, of Massa
chusetts, as Attorney-General of the
United States was announced, it was
brought out as part of the latter’s
record that, while serving as United
States Marshal, in 1851, he had as
sisted in the return to bondage of a
fugitive slave named Thom is Simms,
who escaped from his master in Geor
gia and was captured in Boston.
Wendell Phillips took up the cry,
denouncing Devens as a “ slave
hound,” and Hayes’ advisers as a
“slave hound cabinet.” An extract
from Phillips’ fierce attack was given
in the American one day last week.
Gen. Devens’ friends came to his
defense, and the chief point they
urged in extenuation of his official
action twenty-six years ago was that,
although ns United States Marshal
lie was compelled to hold the fugitive
in custody and see that he was sent
back to his master, the duty was so
dislateful that, ‘alter great personal
exertion, he raised sufficient money
to purchase Simms from his owner,
and made him a free ma .
This statement is denied by Phil
lips in his most vigorous English,
and his second ouslaught upon
Dcveus is even more sava«o -ib«- «».„
first. Now, it happens that Sitnms
ately as was possible. He desired to
say nothing calculated in any man.
ner to wound the feelings of either
General Devens or Mr. Phillips; but
would have been willing to leave the
book of histoi v closed so far ns its
pages related to him.
Had Potter consulted I’is own feel
ings he would have allowed Simms to
remain in Boston, notwithstanding
the fact of hjs refusal to sell him. It
was because cf the clamor in the south
for his return that he was brought
back. Tho .people there demanded
that the laws be enforced,so as to in
timidate the slaves, who otherwise
might have determined to follow
Simms’ example. Potter’s brother
Thomas was opposed to Simms’ return
and on account pf James Potter’s
having assented to it did not speak to
James fo,r several years after. The
Potters had never ill treated him.
He had been well used by them.
While in jaijj at Savannah; Poland,
James Pottpr’s son-in-law, came to
him andjtdvi-ed him to go a short
distance up in the country, that all
excitement, concerning hint might be
allayed. It was subsequently ar
ranged that Simms should be sold to
to any man whom Simms himself
might select. This coming to the
ears ef a man named Mordecai, Mor-
decai represented to one Willey, to
whom Simms’ sale bad been entrusted,
that Simms had ^expressed a desire to
be purchased by him, which Simms
iiad not done at all It was under
thesc circumstances lie was sold.
When James Potter heard of the
deception practiced by Mordecai he
w is very angry ; but the transaction
had been made and was irrevoknble.
Simms was finally sent to New Or
cans, where he remained for some
time, and was sold to a man in Mis
sissippi, witii whom he lived on the
best possible terms for ten yea
Yre^-ne-waraevar liberty in
is still living, and that he is a resident
of Nashville, and, acting upon the
idea that he, of course, ought to ,be
able to settle definitely tho point in
dispute, he was sought out and inter-
-viewed yesterday by au American
reporter.
Simms said he had read everything
that had been printed here on the
subject, and had intended making a
full statement, but thought he would
uot be able to do_so before the latter
part of this week. He desired to
refresh his memory and give the
facts as accurately as possible, so that
injustice should be done to uo one.
lie started out with denying that
James Potter, h sTormer master, had
treated him with- cruelty. On th
•contrary, he was uniformly kind, and
went so iar as to put a nominal price
on Simms’ mother and children that
they might be „ enabled, through
friends, to purchase their freedom
which they did. lie had himself
asked Poller to sell him, but Potter
declared that no man should ha e
him for less than $1,800, which was
equivalent to no sale. Simms finally
offered to find a man who would
purchase him for $1,800, but Potter
refused to entertain the proposition
giving as a reason that he did not
want to part with so good a brick
mason.
One day Simms saw his master in
the act of stepping into a carriage*
with a view to taking a trip ttf New
Y ork, and said lie need not be sur
prised if he found him in New York
shortly after his arrival there. To
this Potter made no reply, the driver
cracked his whip over his horses, and
the carriage rolled away.
It was uot long before Simms him
self was on his way in a steamer to
New York. Tho man who arrested
him iu Boston was named Asa. O.
Butman. Ho supposed it was ou
United States Marshall Devens’ or
der, who was acting in his official ca
pacity under the then' existing law,
'That he might do no injustice to At
torney General Devens. Simms said
* e desired to wait until this week be-
“ Aaron, I s’pose,” said counselor
Gray, imitating the witness. Aft*r
the mirth had somewhat subsided,
the witness drawled out:
Wall, ne ow, we do read in the
hook that Aaron once made a calf,
but who thought the darned critter
got in here!”
The judge ordered the man to be
sworn.
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While in Mississippi, he visited his
relatives in Savannah, and was w«*ll
received by his former master, James
Potter, who invited him to come and
see him before his re-departure for his
home in Mississippi.
In 1857 or 1858 Simms com
menced a correspondence with a man
in Boston. It continued for a short
time and then suddenly stopped.
One day he asked his owner why he
had not given him his letters. His
owner remarked thfit he had opened
one of them and found - that there
was an effort being made to secure
his purchase, and fearing that this
would induce in him a desire to
leave, he had proposely withheld the
letters.
The Potters were Northern men.
Though James Pot er owned one
hundred slaves, Jiu never allowed
Simms’ family to go on tho planta
tion with them. Instead, they were
allowed to live oat by themselves
until a popular feeling ami prejudice
arose against them' and Potter for al
lowing them to be so far out of bis
control and allowing him to act as
“ fret* negroes.” Potter was forced
to sell them, and Simms’ mother, by
process of purchase and the kind in
vention of friends, came into full pos
session of her QwoJoauIy, him self-ex
cepted. As will bo seen, Simms
states definitely and positively that
the war and not Gen. Devens freed
him.
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