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The conduct of Judge Loring has been considerate and humane. If a man is willing to execute the law, and be an instrument of sending back a man into slavery under such a law, he could not act better in his office than Judge Loring.

Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr., Esq: Before the Committee on Federal ... - Page 17
by Richard Henry Dana - 1855 - 30 pages
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The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School, 1817-1917

Harvard Law School. Association (1886- ) - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1918 - 552 pages

...Dana (?.».), one of Burns's counsel and a strong Abolitionist, wrote in his diary on May 25, 1854: "The conduct of Judge Loring has been considerate...could not act better in his office than Judge Loring. He professes to detest the law, but he will follow the rigid construction the courts have put upon...

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Bulletins for the Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Bulletins 17-37

Massachusetts. Commission to Compile Information and Data for the Use of the Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1919 - 630 pages

...Document No. 63, (1865), pp. 4 and 6. 569 to execute the law and be an instrument of sending a man back into slavery under such a law, he could not act better in his office than Judge Loring." Such being the situation in which Judge Loring was involved, can it be said that a case justifying...

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