Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-03-27

chised for the public service that the
spotless Chief Justice whom Wash
ington placed at the head of our Su-
preme Court could by no possibility
have been nominated for that office, or
confirmed. Nay, the corrupt infu-
ence invaded even the very home of
justice. The final decree of the Su-
preme Court, in its decision on a par
ticular case, must be respected and
obeyed the present Chief Justice
has on one memorable appeal accom-
panied his decision with an impas-
stoned defamation, wherein with pro-
found immortality which no one has as
yet fully laid bare, treating the people
of the United States as a shrew, to be
tanned by an open scorn of the facts of
history, with dreary industry collect.
ing evidences Of cases where justice
may have slumbered or weakness been
oppressed, compensating for want of
evidence by confidence Of assertion,
with partiality that would have dis
graced an advocate, neglecting hu-
name decisions of colonial courts and
the enduring memorials of colonial
statute books in his party zeal to
prove that the fathers of our country
held the negro to have "no rights
which the white man was bound to
respect" he has not only denied the
rights of man and the liberties of
mankind, but has not left a foothold
for the liberty of the white man to
rest upon.
That ill-starred disquisition Of Ta-
ncy, who, trust, did not intend to
hang out the flag of Disunion, is the
fountain-heaG of this rebellion that
offence to the conscious memory of
the millions convulsed our country
with the excitement which swept over
those of us who vainly hoped to pre-
serve strong and sufficient though
narrow isthmus that might stand be-
tween the conflicting floods. No ma
ton can adopt that Judgment as its
rule and live the Judgment has in it
no element Of political vitality. will
not say it is an Invocation Of the dead
past there never was a past that ac-
cepted such opinions.
If we want The opinions received in
the days when our Constitution was
framed, we will not take them second.
hand from our Chief Justice we will
let the men of that day speak for
themselves. How will our American
magistrate sink when arraigncd, as
he will be, before the tribunal of hu-
manity how terrible will be the YER
dict against him, when he is put in
comparison with Washington's p6liti-
Cal teacher, the great Montesquieu,
the enlightened magistrate Of France,
Of her monarchy. The argument from
the difference Of race which fancy
thrusts forward with passionate con-
fidcnce, as n proof Of complete disqnal-
ification, is brought forward by Mon.
tcsquieu as scathing satire on all
the brood of dcspots who were sup
posed to uphold slavery as tolcrablc
in itself
The rights Of mankind, that precious
word which had no equivalent in the
language of Hindoostan, or Judea, or
Greece, or Rome, or any ante-Chris-
tian tongue, found its supporter in
Washington, and Hamilton F, in Frank.
lin and Livingston in Otis; George
Mason, and Gadsden--in all the great
est men of our early history. The one
rule from which The makers of our
first conlederacs and then of our Ma
tional Constitution never swerved, is
this F: to fix no new constitutional dis
ability on any one whatever might
stand in the way of any man from
opinion, ancestry, weakness of mind,
inferiority, or inconvenience of any
kind, was itself not formed into per.
mancnt disfranchisemcnt. The Con-
stitution of the United States was
made under the recognized influence
of "the eternal rule of order and
right" so that so far as its jurisdic-
ton extended, it raised at once the
numerous class who had been chattels
into the condition of persons; it neither
originates or pcrpetuatcs inequality.
The following, on jefferson Davis,
is one Of the moet energetic and char
actcris,ic passages which Mr.. Ban
croft has ever written
This day furnishes a spectacle of
still more terrible rctribntive justice.
The President of the pretended Con-
fedcrate States Of America is COM
pclled to do public penance in his
robes of Office, for foolishly and wick
cdly aspiring to power that does not
and cannot exist. that dissolves and
disappears as he draws near to grasp
it. Missouri, which he has invaded,
rises against him Kentucky, where
he desired to nsurp authority, throws
him off with indignant scorn East
ern Tennessee, where Andrew Johnson
must now be speaking for the Union
with clarion notes of patriotism, starts
to her feet in time to protest against
the usurper the people of Virginia,
| in their hearts, are against him (; per-
haps even the majority of the inhabi-
tants of Richmond may be weary Of
his aspirations and as he goes forth
to-day to array himself in the unreal
state for which he painted, his consid-
Grafton drops away from him in the
presence Of his worshippcrs, irretriev.
ably and forever-his conscience
stings him with rcmorse for his crime
and the course of events convicts him
Of arrogance and folly. His elevation
is but a pillory, where he stands in
derision of the world. Richmond,
which he thought to make his capital,
will soon be in the possession OF one
of our Generals or Of another, and
nothing can save him from the just
wrath of his country but a hasty exile.
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