What did the Supreme Court decide in the Burns Fugitive Slave Case?

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On the night of 26 May, they battered in a door of the building, entered, and one of them shot and killed a U.S. marshal. Despite the committee's efforts, which included an attempt to purchase and then free Burns, U.S. Commissioner Edward G. Loring remanded Burns to his owner. On 2 June throngs witnessed the slave's departure. Violent riots in protest of his return shook Boston, and the federal government had to send in troops to quell the disturbance. In 1855 several rich citizens paid $1,300 for Burns's freedom, and he returned to Massachusetts. Following the Burns case enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law declined.