Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-11
OBJ DAILY qg.
TaTRsDAY. MACH IL. 1888.


Az seen by our Legislative record, the report Of
the ioint special committee Of the legislature on
the subject Of the removal of Judge LoTing, was
taken up in the House, yesterday, and discussion
upoa the matter commenced in good earnest.
The speeches Of Messrs. Cushing, Parker, and
Andrew, in particular, were very able, and elicit
ed the marked attention Of the members.
Mr.. Cushing opened the debate in the after
noon, by an extended speech OF an hour and
half in length, in which he manifested his usual
ingenuity and sagacity, IN avoiding unsafe com
initials, and evading a discussion OF the main
issue, his remarks being, as he stated, but pre-
Iminary to what he intended to say when the
committee, whom he moved to have instructed so
to do. should report more specifically the grounds
apon which they urged the removal of Judge
Loring.
It was evident to all who heard the distin-
guished ex-Attorpey General, this occasion,
that, although his speech exhibited the custom
ary marked ability and critical acumen Of the
author, in the manner Of his tte.tment OF the
subject, it was all uphill work. and he made very
poor Roadway, compared with the magnificent
success manifested by him on former occasion,
couple of weeks since, when he SO summarily
nulliaed the greater part Of the DEED Scott de-
cision.
Mr.. Gushing aimed to cast odium upon the OBJ
;ect sought, by representing that the principal
and nearly the only advocates for the removal
were the old school Garrisonan abolitionists
and disunionists.' whom he termed, in phrases
Characteristic of the bunker politicians, s
monomaniacs in negrophobia," "negro idos
tors" .plotters Of treason" &C., and as being
IS systematic calumnistors. in theft bedam
meetings. of the Union and the Constitution, and
breathing forth furious hostility thereto OF
course, he knew better than to suppose that the
advocates for Lorngs removal we're confined
to members of the old anti slavery society, or
that they constituted any more than a. very
small fraction thereof. On the contrary as sta
ted by Mr.. Parker in reply, the removal was de-
minded by the general voice Of the people of the
State, as manifested by the numerous petitions
therefor, by the passage of The address through
two previous Legislatures, and by the embodi-
ment of that voice in the Personal Liberty Act of
1855, which, as much as any other law on the
statute book expresses the deliberate viii OF
the people of the Commonwealth.
In answer to interrogatories, Mr.. Cushing eau
tidtsy RETAINED from expressing any opinion as
to the cnnstitutionality either OF the Fugitive
Slave law or the Personal Liberty law, it being
understood that, in his private opinion, the latter
enactment will stand the test of constitutionality
better than the former.
Mr.. rhlotson of this city followed Mr. Gushing
in come well considered remarks, disproyiDg
many of the false assumptions Of the gentleman I
from Newburyport, in regard to the number and
character Of those who desired the removal Of
Judge Loring.
Mr.. Parker ofthis city then took the floor, ad.
vancing in front of the Speakers desk, and made
most eloquent and able speech, of about three.
quarters of an hour in length, which reflects the
highest credit upon the author, and ELECTED uni
ersal commentator for the successful manner
in which he met and disposed of many of the
points raised by Mr.. Cushing.
The gentleman from Newburyport, said Mr..
Parker, terms those who favor the removal Of
Loring, tinctured with. "negrophobia,' &c. Now,
said Mr.. p, if this be negroPhobia, there is
species of that malady prevalent in the Common
wealth, of the most odious and malignant kind,
with which, l am sorry to say, the distinguished
gentleman fran Newburyport is most thoroughly
infected,) and that is pro-slavery negrophobia.
This sally of wit, at the expense Of Mr.. Gushing,
elected irrepressible outbuIsts of applause, all
over the House, which the Speaker found it al
most impossible to check. Mr.. c.. with his usual
good nature, enjoyed the joke as well as the rest
Want of space oblges US to defer sketch,
which we had prepared, Of Mr.. Parker's excellent
speech, till tomorrow. 1t was one which told,
and even Mr. Gushing cannot but acknowledge
that it successfully met many of the points raised
by himself.
Mr.. Andrew, of Boston, followed Mr.. Parker,
in a very able and logical speech for the removal,
illustrative of the legal points of the case, and
Mr.. Charles Hale, Of Boston, closed the after
noon debate, in an argument against the removal.
The last named gentleman did not exhibit his
usual amount of sagacity, on this matter, by rea.
son of being on the wrong side. The discussion
will be resumed this morning, and the main CUES.
ton taken at oneo clock.