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emonstrant's theory, it would be an abuse of power to impeach or address them off the bench! Suppose a judge by great private immorality incurs utter contempt,--is drunk every day in the week except Probate Court day,--shall he, because he is cunning enough to evade statutes, still hide himself under the ermine? Suppose a Judge of Probate should open his court on the days prescribed by the statute, and close it in half an hour, as your Judge Loring did when he shut up the Probate Court of Suffolk on Monday, the 29th of May, to hurry forward the kidnapping of Anthony Burns. Suppose some judge should thus keep his court open only five minutes each probate day the whole year through. He violates no statute, though he puts a stop to all business; yet, according to the arguments of the press and the remonstrant, it would be a gross abuse of power to impeach him, or address the Governor for his removal, since he has violated no law! Not such was the good old doctrine. In the Presco