New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-04

unLsrry CITY Of Boston. and all tue sunerlhss "
which the fugitive might be subjected
After the arrest had been made it soon became sp-
,.-. .b.. the surrender OF Burns must be attended
with GREAT expense to the City as well as with great
OUTRAGE to the feelings If the citizens smaruns as
tLav ALREADY were under the recent passage OF tue
Nebraska bill and under these circumstance 10 quiet
.be excitement in the easiest manner possible the
iaes wss suggested of buying of the claim oil suite
This disposition to arrange the matter quietly ana 10
alay the growing excitement which the arrest Oh
Burns lad caused, appears to have been In
the fret instance fully participated in by Suite hni-
self Not only would il save him time AMI trouble
not only would il withdraw him from position with
respect to the citizens Of Boston and in fact OF the
whole North which no man Of the slightest sensibity,
benp himself too of northern birth, could much care
about occupying; it would give him an excellent OPP
portunity to dispose of the man for much better
prce than be could hope 10 obtain for him after his
re-ccnveyance back TO virginia. and what might be
amused 10 have some weight with such man as
snttlc il represented to be, it would save him from
being accessory to, if not indeed from being COM
nell.d 10 act himself as executoner of the fortunes
the infection of which upon the body of the uniortu-
nate Purps after his re- convey TO Virginia would
he ipera,ively insisted upon by public opinion there
by way of terror to all such persons held in servitule
a. might be disposed to initiate Burnss example in at
ternptirc TO escape from it, So eager indeed was
Sute for some such arrangement that he himself was
tie fret 10 propose it by making apublic proclamation
through his counsel and in the presence of the Com
missioner Of bis willingness to SELL Being applied to
for that purpose, lie named somewhat exorbtant
price The money, however, was raised; but before
the transaction could be finally arranged Benjamin
+. Hallett iDteryenes Suite flies off from his own
offer and when urged to carry out the original I'M
derstandirg replies, That the is before the
Court and must await its decision" Two or three
days afterwerd the negotiation renewed, when SUIT
tie sgenagreed to certain arrangement for selling out
bis claim to Burns, after he should receive posses
sion Of him from the Commissioner but before carry
ing him back to Virginia, and this agreement he was
just about to put into writing when Benjamin F.
Iialleit again made bis appearance and after pri-
vate conversation with theDserable Suttle compelled
Linn again to break his word and to fall of from his
bargain.
After the decision of the Commissioner became
known TO the public-for the claimant and Hallett
kew il long before-a third offer was made to the
claimants counsel. (Sutte himself having judicously
retired to the revenue cutter before the decision was
pronounced. to give him full pecuniary satisfaction
and TO receive from him the surrender OF the man;
but 10 this it was replied that Suttle "had pledged
himself to Halett not TO sell Burns till he had got
Linn hcme."
Suite was the nominal owner of Burns under the
laws of Virginia; but this ownership seems to have
been quite subordinate to the authority Of his slave
holding noighbors and especially to that OF District
Attorney Ilallett, enabled under the Fugitive Slave
act to make football at of Suttle and OF the
sensbiites of the City Of Boston; resolved to allow
10 escape from the last extremites OF seryitude;
qloatng with equal delight over the miserable SUD-
seryency of the nominal master, the bloody scores TO
be inflicted on the back Of the wretched slave, the
prospect to himself Of speedy and large reward, and
more than ALL the humiliation Of a community OF
which lie had long provoked the contempt by his apos'
tate, mercenaIy, unprincpied political career
1t may indeed be very pleasant to Mr. Hallett, this
splitting upon the religion the selfrespect, the man.
hood, the humanity of his ieOw-citzens yet we have
some doubts whether, in the long run, he will find it
as agreeable thus far to have proved, even
to Lis peculiar appetite.
Does our correspondent still think our remarks
of Yesterday were unnecessarily severe