Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-16
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rrEsDAY, MAaCH 1e. 1858.

BLowIxe Hot AND BLOWING COLD The
Springfield Republican, which is progressive one
day andretrogressive the next, which tickles the
bunkers aud the Republicans on alternate
weeks as if with view OF pleasing everybody,
turned up lis hunkersh side on Saturday, in a
labored article against the policy Of removing
Judge Loring. The Republican has been all
along quite strenuous advocate of the removal
of the infamous Judge Of Probate but just as
that removal is about to take place, just as the
guillotine is about to fall upon the neck of man
who has too long insulted and defed the people
a new light suddenly breaks in upon the vision of
our Springfield contemporary, and it cries out to
the Legislature, to spare him, not because there
is any good reason for it, not because any new
arguments have been presented in his favor; but
in a sort Of supplicating whine for mercy, upon
him. lest the hunkers should feel bad about it,
and for fear that the pro.slavery party will make
some capital out OF it, and "alarm timid anti-Le-
compton Democrats and conservative Southern
Americans with fears of the radicalism of the par
ty with which they must associate themselves if
they leave the support of Buchanan's admins
traton.''
l. has been the curse of the Republican party
in this State, in times past, that what the people
believed was true, and just, and right. to be done
has been oft deferred for the sake of pleasing the
hunkers, and with view to roping in ''conserva'
tive gentlemen" who were afraid of radcalisn
and wished that the anti slavery party would be
little less anti slavery, so that they might feel
no shock to the system, when changing their al
legiance from dead party to live one We be-
lieve the people, certainly the masses of the Re
publican party, are heartily sick Of all this cant
about deeorum," this worship of the respecta-
billtes" this calculating timidlty, which will not
suffer the party to move an inch forward lest
some Union-saying bunker should not be brought
into it,
As regards the position of Judge Loring, every
body by this time knows what it is. By his con-
duct in the Burns ease, he outraged the moral
sentiment of the people of Massachusetts,. BY
his conduct since that disgraceful kidnapping,
in which he took so conspicuous and odious
part he has added insult to outrage, and he
stand, before the world today as cOntemner of
the popular will and defer of the law. Virtu
ally he tramples upon the statute book of Mas
sehusetts, every hour that he sits upon the bench
o his court in Boston. He is just as much law
breaker, not only in the spirit but in the letter of
{ lie law as the thief, and the burglar, and the
sassn, that were sent to Charlestown at the last
term OF the court. They defed the law and they
suffer the penalties of such defiance. Judge Lor.
ing defee the law, and why should he be shield
ed from the penalties which the statute provides
for such conduct. The people have declared,
through their representatives in the Legislature,
that the two offices, Of negro catching and admin
istering upon the estates of deceased husbands
for the benefit of their widows and orphans,
incompatible, and that no Judge of Probate who
will stoop SO low to take the Shareholders
bride of ten dollars for catching a negro is
wo thy to hod an Office which brings him in con-
tact with so many decent people. Whatever viz
tues Judge Loring may have, as private citizen,
in some other respects; in view of his alacrty in
"the bloodhound court" as Mr.. Parker called it
with such great propriety, they have virtually
said to Judge Loring, in the language of the in
iured Othello, cassie, 1 love thee, but never
be QfSgE Of nine and Judge Loring ought
unjust distinctions, by sending the rogues in de-
MINIS and green baize to Charlestown, while they
reward the scamps in broadcloth with fat offices
and liberal salaries from the treasury of the State
For one,we say let the guillotne fall, let the gull
ty suffer for their misdeeds, and, above all, let
Massachusetts law be indicated upon her own
SOIL even though Judge like Lorng should go
supperless to bed.