The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-14

you, to be by you exhibited and published in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, and elsewhere within
your bailiwick.
/ am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES r. PARTRIDGE,
Secretary of State.
THE STATE OF Maryland.
To all rohom these presents shall concern greeting:
Whereas, the General Assembly of Maryland, at
its January session, 1862 did, the 9th day of
March in said year. bv the Joint address of the two
Houses, twothirds of the members of each House
concurrlng therein, request and desire the Cover
to remove from the office of Judge of the Grim
inal Court of Baltimore the Hon. Henry Stump
now the Judge of the said Court And whereas
the Governor of this State, considering the same
is convinced that it is his duty, under the crcum-
stances, to compy
Now, therefore, these are to certify and witness
that l, Thomas Holiday Hicks Governor of the
State of MARYLAND do hereby, in pursuance of the
address aforesaid, and in virtue of the authority
conferred, and duty imposed in such cases by the
Constitution and the Declaration of Rights of this
State, remove the said Henry Stump from the said
office of Judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
T. II. Hicks.
C@0 In testimony whereof, have here
Seal. unto set my hand and caused to be
~ affixed the Great Seal of MARYLAND,
at Annapolis on this 18th day of March, in the
year 1860
By the Governor.
JAMES r. PARTRIDGE,
Secretary of State.
in issue of yesterday, it was stated that Judge
Stump came into Court a few minutes after it had
been adjourned by the Clerk He left the follow
ing address to the Grand and Petit Juries:
To the Gentlemen of the Grand and Petit Juries of
the Criminal Court:
meet you to-day for the purpose of taking leave
and paying my heartfelt respects to you for pro-
per discharge of your official duties, and friendly
bearing towards me Judge of this Court, during
an arduous period of eight years. | also bid an
affectonate adieu to all the officers Of the court
whether they be friends of mine or personally pre-
JUDGED against me.
was elected Judge by the unsolicited nomina-
tion of the convention and the voluntary sufrages
of large majority of the legal voters of this great
city, whom the constitution appointed to select for
themselves Judge, with whose qualifications they
were known to be better acquainted, than those
who have (without any trial. undertaken to re-
move me.
am certain that l have not condemned the
most humble person except upon full and fair
examination of the law and evidence and the facts
and the unanimous finding of an unpreiudiceG iury
and then have endeavored to temper Justice with
mercy, according to the laws of the land and the
circumstances of each case.
am happy to state that the report of the COM
! mitee does not charge me with any corrupt crime
but with ntoxication On the bench, want of dign-
ty, and Difference to the Court of Appeals in the
| celebrated Ford case, which | removed to Balti-
more county for trial, where he was acquitted All
of you who have daily witnessed my conduct on the
| bench can decide for yourselves whether am ha-
btuay intoxicated or not, better than the members
| of the Legislature who never were present at the
| trials in the court and most of whom | have good
reason for saying read the rebuttng testimo-
nv offered from the mouths of the most conscien-
tious and honorable jurors aid other citizens.
The testimony against was taken in secret,
without any notice given to NE that the committee
were proceeding against me. Leading questions
| were framed by some members of the committee
| beforehand, and put to the witnesses against me,
| as to indicate and elicit from each witness the
| expected answers. The rebuttinp testimony was
not all printed half an hour before the Joint Com
mittee made their separate reports to each House.
NV counsel were absent when the case was set down
for the action of the House of Delegates and was
| permitted to make few remarks, limited to time.
which l consumed principally in reading such parts
of the rebuttng testimony was printed, and part
| of which omitted.
When my case came before the Senate nv coun
| sci, Judge Mason and Mr.. Schey, were refused
twenty minutes to confer, before they proceeded tc
address the Senate, and therefore declined the use.
| less ceremony of entering on my defence.
| For these and many other reasons | pronounce
my removal most unjust, and outrage the
| rights of the voters Who elected me to the Bench
| Every man has right to be confronted with the
witnesses against him, and to have all the witnesses
| examined who the accused may deem MATERIAL
Both of these Constitutional privileges were denied
me, and no subpenas issued (that | know of for
my witnesses-besides, the members of the commit
tee were so much engaged in legislating on other
subjects, that two, out of the eight members of it
never met while the rebutting testimony was bcipp
| taken. The fact is, one of the Senators, Goldsbo
rough of Talbot, a recent convert to Democracy,
| argued that was not entitled to trial, but that
the proceeding entirely of legislative nature
| perceived it was useless for my counsel, after
such opinions and symptoms of prejudice to attempt
my defence, because when caucus has decided upor
| outside influences and memorials, it is idle to at
tempt any defence, as no man was ever reasoned
| out of an opinion he was not reasoned into. II
| all such cases prejudice must govern, whilst trutf
and justice are overthrown.
A memorial signed by 500 persons, out of a pop
ulation of 25O,0OO, many of whose names are no
to be found in the Directory, has governed th
members of the Legislature to remove a Judge
elected by large majority of the legal voters of tn
city, which makes the election mere farce. But
gentlemen, must retire under such circumstances
and hope the Governor will appoint abler sue
cessor, from the numerous candidates who signet
the Reform memorial.
With sentiments of great respect, remain your
most obedlent servant, HENRY STUMP.
From LIBERIA.-Through the kindness of VIM
Rea, Esq, we have been permitted to see lette
from Thos Fuller, free colored man, who kept
barber shop in this town for many years, and emi
grated from here to Liberia. The letter is date
at Cape Palmas, January l6, 1860. Fuller say
that after serving six years in the Senate of tn
African Republic, he has abandoned politics an
given his service to his church. He is now en-
gagged in the NJ E. Church Mission. He report
the country to be in prosperous condition in a.
its various departments. Sugar-cane is cutivate
extensively; cotton is attended to; coffee can
had in large quantities; and the people are becom
ing Independent. He earnestly urges upon the fire
coored people to emigrate to LIBERIA Cambridg
(Md.) Herald.
TRIAL OF SMALL-ARMs.-The Board of officers Al
sembled at the Washington arsenal under order
from the War Department, for the examnatio
and test of various Inventions connected with tn
perfecting of small-arms, have been actively ell
gagged during the past week in firing the sever;
new patterns of government weapons, and also
testing some of the breech-loaders which have bee
presented. The list of these last embraces Merrill
Symme's, Burnside's, Josyns, Schreder's, May
nards, Morse's and Sharpe's, of which the tw
first have only thus far been tried Wash. Stat
and Union.
The steamer Adriatic which has been lying il
active so long, will soon be put the Europea