Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-20

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that the newspapers which the mouth pieces Oh
,yrants boast that Maryland Is 10 chains; that she
crushed into chain bridge for the invaders Of her sss'
States Of the South no: only to pass over securely
but to afford means Of transportation and rersshmsnt 4
they 70. Well VIC have heard Of great bridge buuder'
before:
$50 If small things with great may be compared,
"xsrxes, the liberty Of Greece to yoke,
"From susa, bis Asmnonian palace high
"Came to the sea; and over Helespont ~ y
Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined,
"And scourged with many a stroke the indignan
waves" mr rua
Ny friends think that Maryland scourged as she is
will prove even more indignant than the HelIespontsn'
destroy not only this bridge but its builders And il
this connection let me tell Messrs Lincoln Co., In re
turn for their kindness in informing what they win d.
when they have crushed the South, what We will d
when We have crushed them. We win hand them owe
{, the States Of Maryland and Missouri to be dealt witt
according to law; and the best advice can give Is 4
take their cue from the French newspapers, and plea
insanity, as their only means Of escaping the galoss
But TO 70 on enumsraDg their violations Of the Con
carbohydrates Ill of iis amendments says;
"No soldier shall, In time Of peace, be quartered il
sny house. without the consent Of the owner, nor i
lime Of ~ but in manner to be prescribed by law.
Notwithstanding Banks r.srmidons are quartered il
Baltimore wuereyer he chooses to fix them, Without ID
consent Of the BaltimOre.ns tie As.hory Of law.
Article Nv Of Amendments says: "fhe right 0
the people to be secure in their persons houses
papers end effects, against unreasonable searchs
and seizures, shah not be i,!sted." And yet withou
sny cath on which to found these sarchee and seyure
Of the most respectable houses and persons Of Bali
more, or the judgment Of Rny magistrate to sanction
them as reasonable the very ossns appointed TO have
charge Of the safety Of the city have been inpatient,
nsu.ed and hurried from their beds to the dungeons
Of the Tort built Cor its protection and forever renown
ed Tor its conpeotcp WITH that protection BY tbs song
the "starspsngled Banner" when 1t YES indeed ths
bright ensign Of Liberty.
Article V, (of same amendments:
uNo person shall be deprived Of life
liberty or property, Without due process Of law" Yet
the streets OF ST. osis and its Court have
run purple with the blood Of It's eit-srs massacred BY
the mercenaries of the chiefs of the Federal bandtti
Washington. As to liberty and property, how wanonly
they habituA violated by the chiefs and tools Of this
it unnecessary to do it. being obvious TO the gaze
1t makes its authors the Otecs Of the erecraon of the
civilized world And yet they dare to say that il is be
leved that no Law has been violated and with that iso
lence which belongs alone to thorough mendsclty, tell
gentlemen ike you that il has been their purpose
be guided by the Constitution and the laval" This
is too bad but there il something yet
in tins paragraphs above quoted. which now pro-
coed 70 call your earnest attention u this that the
privilege Of the writ Of hGbsas eOrp the great mum
ment of Anglo Saxon liberty whose sacredness many
English kings have been forced by their subjects to &C,
knowledge, and which ia guarded by all the ssnctties
which surround the shrine Of American liberty this hal
loved protection Of the most valuable right of man. 10
treated by the upstart Executive eIpounders Of your pO
liea Bibe. "sOme single law made in such extreme
tenderness of the citizens liberty that practically re-
I.ves more Of the guilty than OF the inEOcest."
think 1t Lord Chatham who said that Magma Char
Ia with is bsrbarons latin, worth all the classics so
much mere important to the velLbeing of were
the rights it guaranteed than the most elegant attain
uens in literature. Yet what is Magma O5arta or our
Bill of Rights wlhou. the privilege Of the writ Of Habeas
Corpus-whst would they be but rights without RENE.
dies, which are but mockeries-crue juggleries,
.whch keep the wori CT promise to the ear,
And break 1t TO the hope"
Yet this great, this cherished, time-honored and hal
lowed imminent CT AL that ia mos. precious in free In
suIions, and indeed without vh;ch they cannot exist
is denounced By your President nuisance, screen
for the guilty rather than shield for the innocent WHO
thus recommends Its suppression by Congress- while he
justes its suspension by himself Does not this force
you 10 ezclaim, with that Scipio, whom the sublime
Milton denomnsted ''the light Of Rome stones have
fden from heaven and other prodscs appalled, mankind
ba. nothing before shocked the liberal world as
deuunosEon Of the privilege OF the writ Of Habess
Corpus by President CT majority of the old United
sAtes-by Chief Magistrate, who sits in the bigger
half Of the seat Of Washington. He hes capped the eli
max of atrocity against the freedom Of the human race
aad in your denuncistions Of bis conduct you may
most Justly baloo to his tortured ear
sNever pray more; abandon all renorse
On horrors head horrors accumulate.
gor nothing esasi thou 10 dannston add greater than
hat"
founder these Just announcements Of your tyrants
though Congress, and let Us see whether those who
pretend such venerston for the memory of Washington
vi brave the indignation Of the liberal portion Of the
human by tramphng upon all that he lived to ee-
rate YOur course will be watched with great interest
BY many among US, but by none with more than one,
who most truly sings himself AN OLD FRIEND.