Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-22

sUnck down IN his place by the hand OF pow
er, Tor the reason of his obedience to the die
tates of his own conscientious judgment. il
the discharge Of his duty. l take issue with
my learned friend from Newburyport upon
that statement of fact.
First, Mr.. Speaker, it is not correct to
charge that the Judge of Probate for the coun-
ty Of Suffolk mas been removed for the per
tormance of any act coming within the range
OF his judicial duties If It were true, Sir,
1t would not be the first I remember that
While the learned gentleman from Newbury-
| port-trom that lofty seat which he illustrated
! Doth by his learning and his intellect as well
as by that hearty and powerful eloquence
| which always stimulates and delights us
when exhibited upon this floor serving
the government of the country in his capael-
! ty OF Attorney General of the United States
| more remote than this from the scene Of that
acton-a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court
! OF the State of Maine was smitten down by
the nat Of the bunker Whigdom and Nation
| al democracy of the State of AIaine-com-
olned and cooperating together-tOr no other
cause (elther alleged or pretended) than that
OF passing Judgment, contrary to the op' Mon
OF a legislative majority. 1 refer to the re-
moval from office OF Judge Woodbury. Davis,
OF Portland, in the State Of Name. That is
ment-of the removal of a Judge for the dis
charge of his duty and our eloquent and able
friend from Newburyport, although he found
ample time, in the exercise of that diligence
IN which hardly man on earth comes in
competition with him, to denOunce Demo-
cratic and Free Soil coalitions in Massachu-
setts, made for the purpose of protecting the
liberties of the people, and to ''crush out, by
Pronunciamento issued from the Office of
Attorney General, in Washington, the coali-
ton of Free Soilism and Democracy he found
no time, no fit occasion, to issue any edict
against that combination of Wings and Ma
uonal Democrats, who placed their hoofs upon
the neck OF Woodbury. Davis, Justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, whose only
offence 1t was, that he decided in favor Of one
sheriff OF the county of Lincoln, instead of
another person claiming to be sheriff Of the
same county. By means Of that removal, they
lnterJected into the office OF sheriff of that
county, man whose politics were agreeable
to the Federal Administration, and calculated
out OF office,a man whose politics were equal
~ disagreeable to the Federal Administration
OF which the distinguished gentleman from
New0uryport was member. That act was
not denounced then; it has not been de-
nounced to this day, unless the eloquent
speech just made by the gentleman from New
buryport is to be considered as an act of late
repentance of the omission. Daughter
L was glad to hear him proclaim his alegi-
ance and duty as citizen Of Massachusetts,
doubt not he will always perform his duties
Unless he t0rgets them, as he did in the case
of Judge Davis
was rejoiced to have the Governor of Mas
sachusetts put everybody in mind that he Is
today conscious of his power as supreme COM
mander of all the forces of the Common
wealth; and if Nathaniel p. Banks holds on
as l pray to God he may do-for some time
after the year 1858 shall have goen to the ash.
es OF the past, so long as he remembers and
determines to exercise his power. l care but
little what acts you place upon the statute
book of Massachusetts, or whnt acts you erase
from them, which were drawn and passed for
quite different age than the present. and for
quite different administration than the one
under which we have now the happiness to
live. (Applause.) Why, sir, we have grown
more than the lifetime of generation of men.
since the Inauguration Of Gov ernor Gardner.
cloud laughter.)
freedom, liberty, just appreciation of the
honor OF the Common wealth and the rights
OF the people, have taken leap, as it were,
out of the slough of despond'' on to the
"a
i'll of Massachusetts holds in his hand the
writ of personal repevin, or of habeas cor
pus, issued out of the Supreme Judicial Court
OF Massachusetts, to take into his possession
Gin order that the question of MS freedom or
slavery may be tried) man, who, on the soil
OF Massachusetts,, was in actual possession of
his freedom up to the time Of his seizure
prtn'e .tacie, presumptively freely all the
traditions, all the maxims of the law in every
country where civilized man dwells under the
9gis and protection of law-and when the
sheriff of the county calls upon the posse CON-
'tat@s to assist IN the service of that writ, and
when the Governor orders out the troops to
protect that officer in the performance of his
duty, expect the pleasure of walking arm
in arm with my learned friend from New
buryport Laughter and applause
The Speaker here stated that the usual
hour for adjournment had arrived, and sug-
gested that Mr. Andrew should finish his re-
marks in the afternoon. There was a verv
general call from all parts of the House of
Go on" Ego on" but Mr.. Andrew said7-
Mr.. Speaker, l had about finished and
with the permission of the House win close
these broken remarks with a single word. l
echo the declaration of the gentleman from
Newburyport, that the deed is done! 1t was
nell done--and it was done q,lickly. Loud
laughter and applause
AT the close of Mr.. Andrews speech, the
House took its usual recess.