Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-02-25

cannon get rid OF 1t and II you are no longer
willing to live with us on terms of friendship
and equality as heretofore, then let us part in
peace.
THE MASSACHUSETTS, ABOLITION
lists AND JUDGE LORING.
The Boston Telegraph, of the 2lst instant,
contains report of the proceedings in the case
of Judge Loring, from which we make the fol-
lowing extract to show the insanity of the
higher law" abolitionised Know.nothings Of
Massachusetts
"The hearing before the committee of the
Legislature on the petitions for the removal of
L. @. Loring from the Office of Judge of Pro-
bate for Suffolk county, was had at the Hall Of
the House OF Representatives yesterday after
noon at three o'clock. For some time before
the hearing commenced, the Hall and the gal
leries Of the House were filled, so that many
could not obtain seats.
"At the hour assigned, the chairman of the
committee, o. W.. Albee, Of the Senate, an
nounced that an opportunity would be given to
those who desired the removal of Mr. Loring
to speak.
The following letter from Judge Loring,
has been received by the chairman IF the com
mittee
10 MeJo Standing Committee on Federal Re
lationS:
"GENTLEMEN:-I have the honor of acknowl-
edgng the receipt of notice to attend hear
ing before you, upon the petitions for my re-
moval from Office, on Tuesday afternoon, Feb.
10th, in the Representatives Hall at o'clock.
"In fulflment Of the duty imposed upon me
by my official position as judicial officer Of
Massachusetts, as well as in justice to myself,
| submitted on the llth of February to the
Honorable the Senate and the House of Rep.
resentatives, a remonstrance and protest, con-
tanning statement of the facts and circum-
stances Of my action in the matter to which the
petitions refer. That document has been re-
ferred to you. do not know that can add
to it, and therefore avail myself of the oppor-
tunity which yonr notice affords me- respectfully
to recall your attention to that statement, and
request of the Committee such consideration Of
its facts and reasonings as in their judgment
they may deserve, or the occasion may pre-
scribe; and | submit in view of them, that my
acts present no case for the exercise of the
supreme and the peculiar power of removal as
the same has been universally expounded and
administered i'll all American constitutions;
and that conformity to the Constitution and
Laws of the United States is not a reason for
Withdrawing from judicial officer that security
which the Constitution of Massachusetts assures
him during good beharior.'
II have the honor to be, very respectfully,
"four Obedient Servant.
"EDwARD G. LoRING.
"BosToN, February Is, 1885,"
"Seth Webb, jr., of Dedham, first spoke in
behalf of the petitioners, stating clearly that he
proposed to show that it is the right and duty
Of the Legislature to address the Executive for
the removal of Z. G. Loring. Jerusalem had
her days Of publication, and Rome her days of
lustration for the crimes of her great public
men. Of such nature is the act which the
Legislature is called on to perform. A great
act of infamy has been done in Massachusetts,
when Anthony Burns was sent back from I'M
der the shadow of the State House and through
the streets of Boston into the ruthless and
brutal hands of Virginia horse-iockey and
slavejockey. Then an act was done for which
| somebody is responsible. Let us know who it
is? (Applause.)
"After further remarks fixing the response
bility on L. G. Loring, Mr.. Webb said: We
ask you, Mr.. Chairman, simply, that he be
judge no longer. We say that is not fit that
the man on whom rests the spotless ermine OF
the Massachusetts judiciary should bow down
to false gods, and go into the house Of the
Southern strange woman. He has defled us
Massachusetts, permit, he will be Judge under
the laws of Massachusetts, and Commissioner
under the laws Of the United States; that he
will sail under the flag Of Massachusetts,, and
under the piratical dag of slavery. We ask,
not that he should be punished, but that he
should be removed from his public to private
station, and that he may I'D placed with the
others of the pack, of whom one was he who
could not be endured at the foot of the stairs
leading to this Hall.
| Had he not de6ed the people and advertised
that he would send fugitiyes still into slavery,
he might be forgiven. and permitted to remain
in Office; let him repent and be may be taken
back. But while this defiant and impudent
attitude remains in the face Of an oyewhelm-
ing public sentiment speaking everywhere
from bill and plain, we cannot do otherwise, so
help us God, than ask for his removal Aswe
understand it, so long as he persists in being
a fugitive slave commissioner, so long there is
something on his hand which all the perfumes
Of Arabia will never wash away. This being
the attitude which he has himself chosen to
take, we respectfully submit to you, in behalf
Of these petitioners and our own, in behalf of
the people Of Massachusetts whom he has dis
graced, and whose honor he has trampled
under foot in behalf Of the whole free States,
through which, from Wisconsin and Iowa to
Maine, there went forth one shudder Of horror
at the deed he did, in behalf Of our common
country and Of civilized humanity, we pray you
to remove him from the bench he has degraded
and disgraced.
The further hearing Of the cause was defer
red to Wednesday next.
The speeches Of these puritancal Adolf
tionists Of Massachusetts, closely resemble the.
ranting and blasphemous defamation that pre-
vailsd in Tho tirno Of Cromwell, when crop.
cared ignoramuses and pious bullies howled
their curses at one moment and prayed through
their noses the next-when, with the Bible in
one hand and the sword in the other, they
rushed madly into carnage and crime, justify
ing at each step the crimes they committed
with perverted texts from the word Of God.
The days Of ambitious political parsons have
returned aoain to curse the earth with the evils