New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-31

We have said, on more than one occasion, that a
vast majority of the people Of Massachusetts, favored
the removal Of Judge Lorng by the Legislature and
Governor, simply because, judicial officer, he had
discharged his duty to the full measure Of the require
ments Of his oath, and returned fugitive slave to
his lawful owner. In making these statements, we
are borne out by the New York Tribune OF the oath
lnst which, in all Abolition Governments, is pretty
good authority. No matter how much we may abom.
mate the anatica doctrines of the Tribune it is but
justice to that sheet to remark that we have never
known 1t to misrepresent its own friends 1t may lie
for them, but it will not lie against them.
Speaking of the removal of Judge Loring, the
Tribune boldly says that it is
A fresh indication OF the unextinguishabe disgust
Of the people OF Massachusetts, with the Fugitive
Slave law and especially with the miserable spirit of
donghface subserviency which led Judge Loring to
consent to act as one Of its executioners In this
point OF view, his removal ought to appear espeei-
ally at this particular crisis, an extremely season.
able warning; and there are at this moment several
persons at Washington from Northern States to whose
cases it is particularly well suited and upon whom
we hope it viii not be lost
And further along, the Tribune enforces the idea
contained in the above paragraph, in this wise:
For it is to be noted that his decision in the case OF
Burns-though many thought that decision wholly
unsustalned by the facts in evidencedd not consti
trlte the main ground of the complaint aganst him
Had that decision been the other way-had he dis
charged Burns, instead of delivering him up--stal
the mere fact that being Judge of Massachusetts,
Court, he had consented to disgrace that office by
joining with it the function of slave-catchng Com
missioner, would have been held quite sufficient 70
warrant his removal.
The resoute and perseyering spirit with which that
removal has been followed ap, can only be taken as
an unmistakable indication of the antipathy of the
people OF Massachusetts to slave-catching, and an
emphatic expression of their opinion that it is not
fit business for law professors aud State Judges to be
employed in. Mr.. Loring thinks it is. He was
warned three years ago by act Of the Legislature
that If he persisted in defiance of the feelings and
wishes of the people of the State in holding his Of
flee Of slave-catchng Commissioner, he must expect
to be removed from his office of Judge of Probate
other. and as be would not resign his Commission
ship, what occasion has he his friends to complain
that he has been removed from his office OF Judge
The foregoing sets forth, in unmistakabe terms,
hat the people Of Massachusetts, will, instead OF toll
Grating, forthwith remove any State Judge who dares
execute the laws Of the United States We doubt
not such is the feeling of the people of that common
wealth, and of opinion it will increase in in
ensity as months and years come and go. The
purity and independence of the judiciary stricken
% the EARTH and Massachusetts Judges dare no more
execute the lawsl What tremendous significance
here is in all this. Let the South take warning.