New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-03

TIE FUGITIVE BURNS is delivered INTO slavery.
A man Us much entitled to his freedom any other
man On the soil of Massachusetts,, has been seized in
that state by other men, manacled, aud consigned TO
hopeless and perpetual bondage. The people OF
that great Commonwealth, containing million
of inhabitants every one of them knowing the act
10 be gross and objectionable exercise of tyrannical
power, criminal outrage upon the inalienable
rights Of man. have suffered ii to he done without in
terpOsing force to prevent it. That there OppOs
ton to the act is however, in the means en-
plOyed for its contamination. Burns not torn
fIom the soil of freedom and consigned TO Slavery by
any ordinary methods of mprsoning malefactors.
lie was not taken by Constable. a Sheriff or
even o whole police force of great city All these
were insufficient. 1t took MI the police Of Boston
three companies of United States troops one COM
pony of Cavalry and an entire battalion of Militia
together with several pieces of artillery, TO the
capture Of this citizen and remand him 70 Slavery
Ii is said that this experimental Of slave
catching got up especially for the purpose oil showing
how readily the North would ecquescc in the Ne
braska bill ard succuInb TO the aggressions of the
slave power. We trust the managers of the perform
ance are satisfied. What do they think of the pros
pect OF performing the same feat over again
LIS coNdiui. capture VI an inActthi Lldii anu
consienng him to the horrors of serye bondage,
necessarily prOyOkes some reflections. We desire to
ask the principals in the affair, the leading Nebraska
conspirators, and the Executive Government at
Washington, what was the use OF the OstentatOus
display of artillery charged with grape shot that
planted in Court-squarc the occasion Do they
not know that the discharge of that upon the
Boston multitude there assembled, would have been
tie signal for fifty thousand Of Massachusetts, to
fyto arms ? Do they rot know tbatthey did not dare
discharge that artillery upon the friends of Freedom
in that commonwealth Why then did they indulge
in this piece of intimidation Was ii for the luxury
of an unmeauing tsunt Do they not know, too that
from the hour of the first discharge of single round Of
grape that the life of no United States Officer charged
with the duty of slavecatching would have been safe
for day in Massachusetts Or do they have no true
perception Of the real state of public feeling in the
North /, may be that they cannot see that, all
through this Burns trial, the public peace mas been
slumberiDg upon the edge Of volcano. Ii they can
not perhaps they had better devote themselves TO
closer scrutiny of the existing state OF the popular
pulse.
There has been the most imminent danger OF a vic.
lent and armed outbreak during this late tragedy.
anu suPPVsc ~ ia" tahcn PidCc Nno NOuu nave
quelled it Who would have restored the public
peace when once broken Burns has been taken
away, but let tell the slave power that nothing has
been accomplished by that capture but to deepen the
resolution that slaves shall not be taken On the
soil of the free States. Nothing has been accomplished
by il, but to rouse the Northern mind to determine.
ton TO resistance TO such scenes in the future This
time, men have been unarmed. Another time il
may be otherwise We are but at the beginning of
the resistance to the arrogant domination Of the slave
power. Things are but in the bud, in the gristle
Nothing has been done in this case bu. to declare
against the proceeding. Not an arrangement to res
the fugitive has been made. None at all TO for
chilly interrupt or eircumyen the man-hunters plans
Why, hundred resolute men could have left Boston
last night on board steamer and overtaken and cap.
tured the revenue cutter and liberated the fugitive.
But was anything done to carry out even 90 simple