Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-10-11
FO R EIGN.
Highly Important! 0'COnneIl Liberated
From the Boston .MOrning ChrOn1eLe.
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. IS,

BIRMINGHAM, Sept. IS, 1874.
Stirring times these in England. O'Connell lib
Grated from Jail; war with France averted: and
Lord Stanley ptchforked into the House of Lords.
Just look at these great events singy
LIST, The Liberation of O'COnneH from jail. The
reversal of the judgment of the Court Of Queens
Bench, Ireland, by the House of Lords, astounded
the country. Every body had given up hope of
redress from that quarter, and even O'Connell
himself had such small expectations of the rever-
sal, that after the glad tidings reached him, he was
full half hour in reverie before he could bring
his mind TO believe them. But this liberation is,
nevertheless, "great fact" and the judgment of
the lords is merclful deliverance from national
oppression. Not only has the reversal proceeded
on the merits but the conclusion establishes the
important truth that, bad as the administration OF
justice has been there is virtue enough in our ju-
ry law and laws on public meetings. to secure the
people from despOtSn All the English judges,
except lord Brougham, whom O'Connell coarsely
calls an {" indescribabe wretch,n admitted that
the sixth and seventh counts of the indictment
were untenable and as these counts indicted o.
Connel for an illegal act, in attending monster
public meetings, our various political martyrs are
safe. The judgment of the lords rested more inn
medateiy on the point of right us to the challenge
ofjurors. You will recollect that all the CathO-
lies were struck off, and that O'Conne's chal-
lenge of the array was disallOwed. Lords Den
ham. Cottenham aud Campbell affirmed the right;
lords Lyndhurst and Broughan defended the
judgment of the Court of Queens Bench denying
it, and the noncontents" had it, The law Of ar
ray is, that the prisoner shall be tried by jury of
his countrymen, composed of ''twelve men who
are neighbors of the fact and tnerceptiOnabLe to
the parties concerned" These are the terms of
Magma Charta conferred on Ireland by King John,
and sanctioned at the union. The Court of Queens
Bench set this law at Defiance and the House of
Commons approved of their doing so! The lords
have acted more wisely. We presume not to in
quire into the motives which led the Law peers to
abstain from voting. There is very strong i'm
preston in the minds of most men, that their do
ing SO stroke of policy on the part of Peel,
who, fearing war with France, saw the danger
OF having to concilale Ireland by some great con-
cesson in order to relieve the troops now station
ed there This may be right or wrong-we care
not Justice has been done to O'ConneIl and his
fellow defendants, and the rights OF the people
vindicated. The conduct Of Mr.. O'Connel, since
he has been set at liberty has been very iudcious
With the exception of some unmeanng barney
which he has lavshed on the wings, nasfar as
the administration of the law of Ireland, and the
appointment Judges were concerned, his speech
at the Cancellation Hall, on the Monday after he
left the pententiary, was a splendid affair." He
reviewed the whole trial in mastery manner
and thus spoke of the first intended act of bis
"new life" He is to impeach the judges and the
government
The first ground of that impeachment is &C the
monster indctment-the six and thirty wards Of
indictment" Lord Denman said lift were ntan-
ded to make it impossible for man to defend
himself, such an indictment would effect that OBJ
Ject. 1t happened to be my case, and backed by
the repeal rent, was able to pay for it; but wha
would become of poor man against whom such
an indictment was preferred. Suppose he got a
copy from the crown, who would make the bvie
for counsel? Why, it would cost him ten times
more money than he ever saw to prepare it, ant
what is our case to day might be poor mans CASE
tomorrow; and a fouler instrument of oppression
could never have been concocted. Impeachment
is our only remedy, or no man would be safe from
monster Indictments. am here free born sub
ject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
and am here defending my rights. | impeach
certain line of conduct on the part of a court
justice, whose decision has since been quashed bv
the House of Lords, without the benefit of those
things they deprived us Of ask for the constitu
tlonal doctrine ofimpeachment to procure justic,
for Ireland, and for the aid of the people of Eng
land, if they wish for justice, to make the i'm
peachment successful | complain of the conduc
of the chief Justice; complain of the conduct o
Judge Champion. Did it ever occur at a trial be
fore, that Chief Justice borrowed part of tn
Attorney Generals brief to make up his judg
ment? The Attorney General was prosecuting
the Chief Justice should have been impartial be
tween us; and to make sure of being impartial
and not to be msled, he took the Attorney Gene
ra's brief to assist him. This is the fact-tha
must be heard-and don't care what the author
ty of the Chief Justice is, intend to call upo
the people Of England to assist the people of Ire
land in dragging him before tribunal that vii
ascertain if that is conduct to be tolerated NJ
next ground for looking for an impeachment O
the Chief Justice is, the indecent charge he gay
to the jury. 1t is admitted by every person, tina
that was a most one-sided charge. 1t was So to
tally nde(ensble that no man in either House o
Parliament rose to defend it. 1t was impeache
by every person-and is not that, ask you,
species of charge that deserves to be investigate
by impeachment
Who is safe from Judge Of that description
And for that charge, violent as it Is, and illegal a
contend it to be, we have no remedy by appea
because it was not on the record; and therefore h
acted with the most perfect impunity-that is, tn
most perfect certainty of its effect without ou
having any control over him by appeal; and it
another more powerful reason why he should b
mpeached, and the matter investigated that W
had no other remedy. They admitted the news
papers in evidence. Mr. Barrett's newspaper
were read against me, that had nothing to do wit
me. The Nation read against me--passagf
disapproved of and condemned were read again
me. they were read not only as passages an
speeches, but as evidence of the facts aedged
those speeches; as if a witness came on the tab
and said Mr.. O'Connell did SO aud so. | ca
prove also that offers of bribery were made TO pc
sons by underlings. know one man that was o
fered to have his fortune made If he gave INFO