The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-08

general rule be necessarily ignorant Of that upon winch
they are called 10 decidcwhen we see all TINS MOI
clear as the beams Of midday sun that one Of the lead
ing objects Of this foul conspiracy s either 70 destroy inc
Judiciary or render completely subseryient to the grand
scheme Of removing every barrier to fanaca in'erenee
or legislative asurpaon and consequently every security
to person and property derived from constitutional pros
ions and organic law
The blow thus aimed at the Judiciary system and the
independence judges strikes at the very ioroo OF th
rights Of person and property OF all the departments o.
there il moi one on which the rights and hap
piuess of the people SO much depend II is at one and
equally restraint legislative usurpation, executive
and individual encroachmenI Ii is the watchful
sentinel at every mans doorhs guardian his protector
and his ayenger There scarcely action or
or condition in the life Of civilized in which the inter-
prefers and Of the law are not has best guides
in secular affairs aud bis best protectors Neither bis house
his fields his Preside bis family himself can be safe
by day or by nghnxcept under the guardian wing OF an
intelligent upright and independent Judiciary Without
this government is wicked farce miscnevons impos-
tor Who while pretending to protect the people leaves
them without shield against the encroaehmens oil cor
rupt legislation which is becoming perfect despot
ISM car Of Juggetnaut rolling along under the direction o.
political priests midnight conspraors, ha'f-pr"hed M
nacs and hypocritcl demagogues as regardless Of the
rights of their sowcitzens Of the great fundamental
principles Of Christian faith and Christian morality
tits one would think impossible not TO perceive that
the direct tendency the primary object OF this dark
conspiracy against both law and gospel 10 render those
organic laws which imbodied in constitutions and
which, above all Others emanate most directly from the
ueoplewho there emphaticay exercise their sovereign
ty-subserye to ordinary everyday legislation.
Having their worst TO PROSTATE the independence Of
the judiciary by hunting judges like nature for doing
their duty and keeping their oahs and BY taking from
them the sole function that confes them any power
whaeverhat OF interpreting the aws-they have struck
the keystone the ach and rendered the entire edce OF
government an homogeneous mass, without cement and
without proportions Henceorth in the Cradle OF Liberty
there Is 10 be no balance Of power no separate, nde-
pendent eparents to operate checks on each other
no judiciary no organic aws and the entire authority OF
the be vested ia the legislatures for the
time being without any legal constitutional restraints
What is this but dcspotsm in new disguise and what
constitutes yrannyat least the to yrannizebui
concentration OF power in single body, as in one
single man. restrained by no laws but what il makes for
ITSELF and which it violate at pleasure and counter
balanced by no other branch of government sufficiently
powerfl to restrain ts excesses? Where 70 look
for the sheet-anchor Of such government Without
constitution establishing principles sacred from the
coachments Of legislation without judiciary to restrain
its excuses or arrest invasions Of the ogancaw and in
fct without any lays what the crude offspring Of
presumptuous ignorance psbcgotten dsproportoned
shapeless offspring Of Anticipated theorists hair-braned
fanatics, and interested demagogues either wsllly blind
or incapable Of dranghtng pne law without violating hall
dozen constitutional principles. With such system
or rather farragoof legislation what we to antici
pate from ascendency of these combined ce
ments Of dsorganzaton but anarchy revolution and in
fact complete CONFUSION Of all the elements Of
cial and political organizations?
The present contest between the great
which has always been and ndivsble, and must
tnue so II ii hopes to maintain its woned ascendency
and the heterogeneous gallimaufy rallied for the
time being under flag manufactured believe from Jo-
sephs coat Of many colorshe present contest say is
no. limited to mere struggle for the acquisition Of tenn
pornxy power 1t involves principles not merely Of foregs
and domestic policy but the great fundamental principles
on which all government is based In short, far as
these principles purposes have been indicated by
acts they carry with them not Seey REFORM but rcvou
tion--reIgious, moral, social, and political
In age or country has such revoluuon peen accom-
pshed except by the slow and salutary operation of time
and the changes it invariably produces without great
physical struggle and the esion of Of blood We
are aarmsts but appeal to history sustain
clusion Those short-sghtcd deceived wilfuiy blind
disciples Of secrecy and night should they be ultimately
successful in undermining that simple, massive, and noble
temple Of freedom erected by wise and vrtuous body
of architects gathered together for similar pur
pose will nd and that speedily when it falls they win be
the first to be crushed nnder its ruins Anarchy is both
the parent and the offspring of despotsm, and its first vic
Tins those who justly punished for being the in
struments in bringing about their degradation.
Woe that people whose Legislators have become IA
natics who substitute legal oppression in place of moral
restraint and in their aborve attempts to curb the
of mankind, deprive them of all freedom of action
without which there is for the exercise of virtue
Woe to that people whose constitutions and organic laws
barrier to legislative usurpaton whose Judges
either deprived Of all their functions presented
performing them whose preachers of the Gospel instead
of blowing the trumpet Of Zion call their Hocks
geher in the fold Of peace sounding the blast hatred
and disunon converting their pupits into ho-beds Of
contention, their congregations into political meetings
and their churches into schools Of sediton anarchy and
civil war Let those who feel themselves free from this
cepsnre show IL by standing forth openly and manfuy
to this torrent of fanacsm indcity and hypoc