Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-04-19

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Esy~ An accident delayed the receipt of the
following note from Judge Loring, OF the date
of April 18th:
To the Editors Of tie Washington Sentinel.
GENTLEMEN: | have just seen that, in your
paper OF March 3lst, you give me credit for a
letter written by Mr.. George B. Loring, of
Salem, by republishing an article from the
Richmond Enquirer.
This attributes TO me another's merit and
in justice to him | seek to correct mistake
arising from misapprehension OF persons.
Very truly and respectfully, your obedient
servant, EDWARD G. LORING.
BosroS, April 7tb, 1855.
This letter recalls to our memory the trials,
veyations, and prosecutions to which Judge
Loring's judicial fidelity in the enforcement of
the fugitive slave law has lately subjected him.
He has become odious to the distempered com.
,nunity in Which he lives, and has been made
victim to his honesty, and their phrenzy
We learn from the Massachusetts, papers that
the House of Representatives of that State has
adopted, by vote of 2O7 to Ill, the address
for the removal of Judge Loring 1t now goes
to the Senate.
This is not only an outrage on Judge Loring
but it is an outrage and insult inflicted by the
Legislature Of Massachusetts, on the whole
country This outrage, taken in connection
with the recent vote of the New York Legisa
ture to abolish the property qualification, and
allow suffrage to all negroes, gives harsh and
menacing aspect to the sectional feud that so
unhappiy prevails. We doubt if negro voting
in the non.saveholding States is not the most
| dangerous, as it is the most grossly insulting
outrage that Northern fanaticsm has ever per-
| petrated.
There is no clearer, no better established
| proposition than this-that this Government in
all its relations was intended to be Govern.
ment of the white race. 1t never entered the
head Of single man who sat in the Convention
of 1871, that the President of the United States
would be voted for in any State by negroes.
If this system of negro suffrage should prevail
throughout the so-called free States, the next
freak of the Abolition fanatics would be to elect a
negro President. Whatever will most violate the
spirit of the Constitution, and insult the South,
is the very thing that these reckless incen-
diaries will be most inclined to do.
There is nothing clearer to our minds than
this-that that the Southern States cannot
fraternize with the Northern States, should
they grant to negroes the right of suffrage, by
means of.which the negro suffragans might, with
the aid Of their rinprincipled white coadjutors,
elect negro President.
The South should protest strongly against
this attempted elevation Of negroes to an
equality with the white race. Every evil should
Africanize the United States deserves more
notice than anything else that has occurred in
connection with this negro question. We will
illustrate this by one single remark. Suppose
that all the free negroes in the free States
should be reinforced by all the free negroes in
the slave States. Suppose that all the free
States should grant to these free negroes the
right to VOTE would they not at once become a
great power in the State? Would they not at
least hold the balance of power? They might
absolutely elect a President and elect rank
and odorous negro President OF course, the
Southern States would not for moment sub.
nit to such horrible and unnatural condition
Of things. They could not fraterri2e with the
Northern States; they would be compelled to
quit the Union.
Massachusetts and New York seem 10 be
governed by lunatics. Whatever is most
vile, whatever is most unworthy whatever is
most gross and most pernicious, these States
seem most inclined to do. They rival each
other in degradation, and match one another in
hatred Of the Constitution and of the South.
Verify have we fallen on evil times.