The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-06

c with the resolution passed BY the legislature
: requesting him TO remove from office judg
j Loring. is an elaborate and able document
He declines to dismiss the Judge, first, becaus
+ he thinks the power given him by the eonstl
!, tuition 10 dismiss judge, was designed onl y t
$ be exercised in case of incapaciy, from lines
r OF other cause, to perform the duties of the OF
! fee; and, second, because it isnot charged o
even minated that he has committed any of
fence against the laws of Massachusetts, or thu
; United States; Or that he is not entirely com
petent to perform the duties of the office.
his action as United States commissioner I'M
der the fugitive slave law rendered him so OBJ
noxious as to make his removal as Judge o
probate desirable, it should have been effected
IN proper manner, as it might have been by &
law declaring the duties of the two Offices in
compatible. To the allegation set forth by the
Legislature, that judge Lorng has shocked the
popular sentiment of Massachusetts, the gov
ernor thinks it would be we'll to mediate on
the duties devolving on judges, and asks:
care they TO expound the laws as made by
Che law making power or are they to construe
them in accordance with popular scntment?-
| When the time arrives that a Judge so violates
his oa!h of Office as to shape bis decisions ac
! cordmg to the fluctuations of popular feeling,
we become a government not of laws, but Of
men. Surprising, as is alleged that according
to the ordinary balancing ofconf1icting tesimo-
ny, the decision ofjudge Lorng was erroneous,
no one asserts Or believes that he w;lfully adu-
dcated wrongly and corrup3y. The error, if
error it be considered, was a mistake Is
Judge, then, to be removed from office, even if
in the execution of that Office he gives mis-
taken Judgment? Such an impractical and
dangerous policy would lead to daily removal
among judicial officers of our inferior courts, SO
often are their decisions oyelrulcd by higher
tribunals"
Governor Gardiner thinks that even if Judge |
Loring did act wrongly in The case of Burns, it !
was from error and not from inent,-that his |
conduct was conscientious, humane and in &C
cordance with his best judgment. For these
reasons he refuses to remove the Judge.
New MovEnENT-A project is now being
sgitated in a portion of North Carolina, and viii
t is said soon be brought before the legislature
If that State, well calculated, to say the least
If it, to create {. sensation throughout the south
t is proposed: 1st., to render legal the insti-
utIon of matrimony among slaves. 3D. to
reserve sacred the relation between parents $
nd their young children. Sd to repeal the
avs prohibiting the education of slaves III
his modification in the laws is made in North t
carolina, as many papers appear to believe will |
e the case, other States will no doubt take the
natter into consideration, and it will then be a
J far the most interesting portion of our "pe- S
uIiar institution" The main features of the ;
ovement have, it is said, been adopted in prac- g
ce, or at least approved in theory, by nearly |;
| the planters 10 North Carolina, as far as cir a
instances would allow; but we cannot avoid )
mixing that it is extremely predetermined %
neither the proposed changes would in reality Il
owe advantageous to the condition of the ne c.
'oes. There are certainly objections to be
ade to the adoption of such modification of $
re laws regarding slaves, and we shall keep an -
re on the working of the n Carolina scheme. a
1t is reported that George ". Holt, head u
ERIK in the post-offce at Napoleon, Arkansas. a.
as been arrested, on the oath of the special O;
rent of the general post office, for robbnyth cl
all. The agent has been on his track for some IN
ne and terretlng out the various missing let -,
and l
leave 10 reasonable doubt of bis guilt 1t
as distributing Office, and as mails were fire. II
!ently delayed at that point, he took advan 10
&c of the opportunity to convert their contents III
his own use. The Pierce Observation-Disclosures sc
ars to have been remarkably unfortunate in :"
lecting postmaster. Hardly day is allowed tt
pass &thout the public being startled with W
e announcement that another employee of the b.
neral government has been arrested on a O.
large of cmbezzlement or fraud tt
The Washington Union states that governor =.
eed"r, of kapsas. i in that city, making pre- ~
,rations for,his RI krn to the territory Which % %
proposes making bis future home. The +;
Mon proceed1o praise the governor as a firm H.
ibfsistcnt PiScste; but forsets to excul- =,
lie him from the serious charges against his
NOR as a gentleman and rcctitude as a public
cer brought by the administration papers in IN
e territory. In the e. rs of the Union, an Of m
e-holder, no matter how depraved and venal 7
immaculate. III
Let no more be said about the blue laws and J.,
nat1clsm which prevailed in days of yorc in j.,
e New England colonies. In Cincinnati, on
lnday, 18th ult., Mr.. Frederick Eksen, who
cps drug store, sold glass of soda water to
| exhausted and thirsty pedestrian. On Mon .
~, Mr.. Ekstein was arraigned for this start l.
ny offence, and fined twenty dollars and costs
+ selling on the sabbath! Cincinnati ought =
be a model city for morality; but singular
ough, while the law condemns man to pay
heavy fine for selling a glass Of soda water CT
Sunday, thieves and swindlers are permitted al
roam about unmoested. al
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