Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-05

the representatives of that distinguished old
Commonwealth in the next Congress. Expert.
ments may be made in times of safety They
| only aggravate the dangers Of a crisis.
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! BLOWING HOT AND COLD IN THE
SAME BREATH-THE "LOUIsvILLE
JOURNAL ssf E aq
We have rarely, if ever, seen more striking
exhibition of inconsistency than is contained in
the Louisville Journal "a Wing and Know
nothing paper) of the lst instant. In its lead
ing column, under the head of the " Nationality
of the American party" it undertakes to prove
the political. soundness and purity Of the Bds-
TON KNow-NorHNGs, by reference to the re-
election of Mayor Smith, the mayor who aided
in the execution of the Fugitive Slave law, in
the memorable case of Anthony Burns.
In the next column it comments, in the most
virulent and venomous manner, upon the ad-
dress for the removal of Judge Loring, which
recently passed the Massachusetts Legislature.
1t pronounces it "a scandalous outrage upon
the Judiciary, in the person of Judge Loring
1t calls it San Infamous act" 1t says, "not
only is the act of the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture an outrage on justice, but it also violates
the Constitution of the United States" The
Louisville Journal further says:
"The outrage is aggravated by the fact, that,
for this mean, contemplate explosion of spleen
and disregard of right and Justice, by which
wanten insult and injury are inflicted on an
unoffending citizen, the laws provide no redress
Wendell Phillips, the advocate and champion
of this act of infamy, boldly urged it on the
ground that the Legislature had the naked
poloer and could and should exercise it, right
or wrong. The damnable counsel sank deep
into congenial hearts, and the majority of the
| Legislature have shown that republican as
sembly may be composed of tyrants. The Con-
stitution Of Massachusetts gave the Legislature
only the right to require the removal of Judge
Loring; if it had given the power to hang him,
we suppose this body of tyrants would have had
him strung up to tree on Boston Common
Humanity has often shnddered at the reci-
tai Of the monstrous atrocities perpetrated by
| the Puritans of Massachusetts. Her early
history is q record of bigotry, intolerance, and
persecution, that ought to teach her citizens to
be moderate and to respect the opinions of man
kind, and at least 10 observe the decencies due
to honest difference of opinion. If men and
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| Quakers scourged to death, no longer enliven
the dull monotony Of the Boston and Salem
streets, it must be credited rather to a regard
for decency, than to the extinction of the spirit
| that prompted those atrocious sacrifices to the
! spirit of fanaticism and intolerance. To expel
n man from Office for doing his duty and exc
cutting a distasteful law, emanates from the
same moral and religious principles that for
merly condemned men, women, and children to
be tied to the tail of cart and scourged through
the streets, even to death, because they we're
| Quakers. In the political history of Massa-
chusetts there is much to admire but her reli
| gious annals are defaced with passages Of
cruelty, intolerance, and oppression worthy of
the palmy days Of the Holy Office that will
cease to be abhorred only when they cease to
| be remembered"
Now, Massachusetts is bigger than Boston, and
the Legislature of Massachusetts is of more i'm
posing authority than the august, refined, and
solid" city Of Boston, even. If evidences
are to be drawn at all from that choice portion
Of puritanical" New England, they should
rather be drawn from the Legislature of Mas.
sachusetts, and the State Of Massachusetts than
from the city Of Boston.
We will say nothing about the absurdity of
attempting to prove that Boston is sound,
national, fugitive slave lawexecutng city, in
the face Of the almost universal uprising Of the
people against the restoration of Anthony
Burns to his lawful master. We will say
nothing Of the fact that Mayor Smith tcas not
reelected BECAUSE he aided in. the erecution Of
that la'o-lame feeble, and unwilling aid as it
was--BUT IN SPITE OF 1T. Nor will we raise n
question as to whether Mayor Smith, at the time
Of his reelection, was an avowed Know-noth-
ing. We will pass these thing by.
| Bot we will say this--that the Legislature Of
Massachusetts, that passed the address for the
removal Of Judge Loring, which is so much
abused by the Louisville Journal, is Know
nothing Legislature. II contains, with the ex-
ception Of perhaps half dozen members,
none but Know-nothing Aboitionists. We
respectfully ask the Louisville Journal If that
body comes under the head Of the nationality
Of the American party2" The less is included
in the greater Boston is but small portion
of Massachusetts; and if the Journal desires
to prove any proposition by reference to Mas
sachusetts, it should take the State, and not
the city Of Boston. II should take the Legis.
lature, (of which Mr.. Hiss, Of Boston, ,oho no
doubt roted for Mayor Smith, and who was the
most distinguished member Of the notable
nunnery committee) and not the solid men,