The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-30
leave the murderous blow to be struck By run1ans

Are tnefe COWnruly vulalnS tO BO uupuuioucu
Cannot the law reach the orignators and RESPONSE
BILE authors Of crime2 they to get up more mobs
AID more murders ? are they to plunge this city
deeper and deeper in disgrace2 We desire to know
whose life is sate-what real security we have for
the public peace as long as these things are allow
ed TO take place among us, and the miscreants who
are ut the bottom Of the whole mschef-men whom
everybody knows as irebrands and common distur-
bers OF the public peace-go at large, and are per
mitted to collect the awless seditious and disorder
ly elements ef our population around the public
buildings OF the city, for the express purpose of in
stigating them to deeds of violence and outrage
The sanctuary Of justice il violated by Infatuated
rabble who stab to death its defenders Every one
knows who set on foot this outrageous proceeding,
who it was that counselled and encouraged the muir
derer to lift the knife-every one knows who, in
fact. are the real criminals. Cannot the hand Of
justice strike the true culprtsl The safety and re-
pntation u the city are involved in the answer to
this question.
from the Boston Herald, (neutral antitemperance)
May 29.l
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE EXCITEMENT.
The unfortunate circumstances of the past week
are greatly to be deplored. We have been 10 en-.
gagged in gathering the fast coming facts of the
case, the history Of the Faneuil Hall meeting the
rotous proceedings at the Court House. and the I'M
happy homicide, the events of the day Of Saturday,
the proceedings before the Commissioner, and the
various other Incidents which have arisen that we
have had neither time nor space to offer any re-
marks of our own upon it. Nor do we now intend to
comment upon the principles which are involved;
the public mind is too much excited to consider the
question calmly, with the aid of cool reason and
sound Judgment
At proper time we may venture, difadently, to
offer our views upon the conduct OF all parties, off,
cial and non-official in this unhappy affair.
The timely announcement, in the Sunday morn
ing papers, that Burns was to be liberated, through
an agreement made between the claimant, Col.
Subtle, and the friends Of the fugitive for his pur
chase and of course his restoration to liberty,
fnU1nd mo than ANYTHING IN allav tho NIL
lows Of excitement which have ragged since Friday
night. 1t was oil poured upon the angry food. It
had almost the sublime efficacy of the words Of in
spiration-."P Peace, be still" With deeper feeling
intimated by public handbils that the proposed ar
rangement was not contaminated, and there is rea-
son to believe will not be. We do not see how the
contamination 30 much to be desired for the sake
of present peace can be avoided with honor. Faith
to bargain for the sale and purchase of Burns has
been pledged in the most solemn manner.
Edward G. Parker, Esq, the counsel for the
claimant, stated in open court, on Saturday, that
his client was ready and willing to dispose Of his
interest in fact had entertained propositions for the
purchase OF his claim; and he assured the court and
Of course, the public that there danger that
Burns would be taken into slavery at ALL These
H. Dana, Jr., that if the decision were against
Burns, he was liable to be sold upon the first auction
block for the New Orleans market. We cannot be-
lieve that either party will now interpose objections
lQe Responsibility OF inc HCL IL TREMENDOUS. Inc
storm which has been hushed may burst forth again
with terrible fury, carrying desolation and destruc-
ton In its path.
The proceedings will be continued before the
Commissioner in the District Court ROOM this fore
noon at IL o'clock.
Without presuming to dictate to the public the
for them to pursue it seems to US that they
can gain nothing by assembling around the Court
House during the progress of the examination be-
fore the Commissioner for, however much they
may indulge in groans howls, and other expressions
of Indignation the condition of the fugitive will
not be ameliorated thereby. The trial will 60 on to
the end, despite all threats therefore, it seems to
us wise for parties to await the issue patiently and
then resolve upon q firm but prudent movement in
favor of the cause they have espoused.
From the Boston Mail Independently May 29.l
PHILANTHROPY TURNING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SETS A MAN MARKET-BURNs BOUGHT BY THE
ABOLITIOEIsTs-THE LAW sUBsERvIENT TO NAM.
MON-MURDER wINKED AT, AND INSTRUMENTATION
TRIUMPHANT.
In the rise, progress and termination of the case
OF Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, there are con-
sderations beneath the surface of overzeaous phi
lanthropy little thought of in every ones phoso-
ply. The sequel beholds Massachusetts engaging
in the slave traffic. 1t is said Burns has been pur
chased by his anatical friends at the round price of
$2600-thc sum including the expenses Of his mas
ter and costs of suit. What his new proprietors in
tend to do with him has not yet fully transpired,
but it is probable he will be nomnally set at liberty
Liberty-a condition that, in his most extravagant
dreams far off in the South, be pictured, at best,
a life of Incidence.
We confess we could prefer no objection should
our abolition neighbors resolve to purchase every
slave south Of Mason and Dxon's line. But they
would find it rather too expensive. They have not
the capital at their command. These wild, en-
thusastic philanthropists have very little bottom
They are VIGOROUSLY lazy. They seldom produce
anything themselves, except windy speeches and
crazy harangucs Whoever saw one Of them a.
work : engaged at honest labor such as their
colored brethren at the South are required to &C.
compish They detest and repudiate the very idea,
and rom this idiosyncrasy arises, perhaps, their
sympathy for the slave. They are always ready
other people, but il the release from want or bon
dage Of their fellow-men depended upon their own
sweat, night Of restitution and tyranny might
reign supreme throughout the world.
During the last two days Of the past week time
enough was idcd away about the Court House,
which, If properly employed, would have yielded an
amount sufficient to purchase half dozen negroes
and the blood Of white man would not have been
upon their heads. And then the precedent of maxi
ing Massachusetts market for Southern slavehoId-
ers is wrong-wrong, because the very act Of pur-
chase defeats an existing law. We are but single
member OF compact-and however Odious q law
may be- if it is the legitimate result of that compact
let US abide i till the power and potency Of truth
shall be indicated in its repeal Men who set them
selves up as the pioneers Of principle will make lit
tie progress il they substitute violence for reason.
The truth is, there is little sincerity among the
may harp, but their hearts are callous to all but
81 II. And that principle is but miserable pretext
that will permit money to subsdize the law-that
would murder a white man to screen negro from
a responsibility instituted and recognized by the
founders of the government.
For speaking out in vindcation of the law, and
its strict maintenance, the Mail has been stigma
tZed as 8 proslavery organ-an intended reproach
which has not the weight of feather in the scale Of
duty. 1t ought to be understood that the Mail Is
the organ of no set Of men or petty party. Like
the sun, it rises from the horizon to the heaven of
truth far above clique and faction to dispel the msts
Of prejudice and the fog of fasehood, under what
ever guise il may assume.
With all good, intelligent men, North or South,
we regret deeply the existence Of slavery-it is an
evil deplored by the recipients of its counter
balancing beneits-yet 1t is evil not Of their own
choice, and TO be remedied least by resort to force,
nccDdarism, mobocracy and murder. There is a
field for the exercise of true benevoence this side Of
the marked children of Ham-among our own
brighter and purer visaged race, whose faces grow
paler by oppression. We are not negro hatcrs-for
the race, their character and condition. we entertain
no other feeling than that of kindness, pity and
commisseration. The African cannot excite our