Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-04-04

Sec H. Whenever the person arrested imprisoned ON
the ground of his being held service shah mott
the hearing be ishargedby the judge before whom
the writ returned he may claim jury trial before the
COURT of which the Judge who heard the is member,
entering into areeognisance, with sufficient surety
suretes before court for his appearance at the
said court at the next term thereof the county,
prosecuting his appeal to final judgment The penalty of
such recognisance shall exceed thousand
lars. sEF IS. =.
SEC r. The court to which the said appeal is made shall
direct trial by jury of all questions in controversy under
habdS corpus between the arrested imprisoned and
the claimant and the verdict of such jury shall be final and
conclusive and judgment shall be entered thereon and the
Commonwealth shall pay all the expenses of justice fees
wing the writ of habeas corpus witness fees summonng wit
and clerks fees which may be incurred
obtaining writ of habeas corpus under this act.
SEC I3 This act shall take from and after its
sage.
This is the tone of the I" law abiding North,' and
the way in which that super-hoy and superlatiyely
excellent section fus its obligations under the
cent compromise acts. Virginia may be right, but
she is mistaken. Massachusetts aUU have fare
up submit as you may and New York, Ohio, and
Vermont will help her. Why should Virginia Sc
lect Vermont which to pour out the walls of her
wrath since, to home-bread word, they are all
tarred with the same stick.
gsa~The Raleigh Register the . greater dark
of the Federaist party in this State has far
condescended from its metropolitan dignity as, some
weeks ago. to address sort of circular query to the
lesser lights of the Democratic party for the pur-
pose of asceraining their views upon the subject of
the Union party humbug. We, in common with the
other lesser lights" feeling duly fattcred by this
notice, made still valuable by the age and ex-
perience of the able and sagacious politician who
presides the columns of the greater darkness
aforesaid, did answer Immediately and explicitly,
and yet have failed to give satisfaction. We are,
however, pleased to find that we have in one case
been able to oblige the Editor of the Register even
though we did not intend to do so in the form and
manner stated in his article of the 26th ultimo He
says g We obliged for the admission that the
Union of the States has been put in peril under
Democratic instruction" Very sorry to disoblige
the Register-very much so. indced-but We never
made any such admission. We said that it was only
by divergence from the fundamental principles Of
the Democratic creed that the Union of the States
has been placed in jeopardy. We had an idea tina
this divergence was under Federalst misdirection
We had an idea that Gen. TAYLOR, and not Gen
CAss, elected in 1913; we also had an idea. tina
still seems to that Gen. CAss took the ground tina
the Wilmo Proviso and similar nterfarences by the
General Government, unconstitutional, while
Mr.. WEBSTER and MIR. BADGER only thought then
inerpedient and we think the Congressional Globt
will bear us out. The principle of rigid construc
on of the Federal compact to the exclusion of mere
ly implied powers, is the fundamental principle O
Democratic policy, the violation of which, under thu
pressure of Federaist consolidation has placed the
Union of the States in jeopardy The loyalty of the
people of the United States is not to name or to
particular spot of land. 1t is to their institutions
and their laws, as guaranteed by the constitution
The party which rallies for the protection of the
constitution rallies for the protection of the life
soul of the confederacy; while those who raise thu
cry of Union," irrespective of such considerations
are but political Pagans bowling down before sense
less stocks and stones.