Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-03-21


of Republican liberty" On these p'inci-
ples,,he Government which makes us peo-
pie was put in motion, while the foundations (
of monarchy in France were crnmblinc /
and the beams that upheld the civilization
Of tue middle ages were falling in. Dur
ing the half century which succeeded, !
France underwent more revolutions than ] !
can readily cennt up; Spain bad many
forms of government III rapid succession
the dynasty of Portugal was driven for
refuge to South America, the empire OF
Germany wen, down in the whirlpool OF
revolution Russia has been convulsed by
fearful plot for insurrection Italy was
many times reconstructed; The Pope lost
and won temporal power. and has been al
most shosn Of it again tise'- iaslitutions of
Great Britain have been thrice essentially
modified by the annexation of ireland, by
the reform Of Parliament--which was in
fact revolution-and by opening the doors
Of its two houses 10 men Of all creeds.
Progress of Corrupt Influence.
During all these convulsions the United
States stood unchanged, admitting none but
the slightest notifications in its charter, and
proving itself the most stable government
of the civilized world. But at last i've
have fallen on evil days" :" The propi-
,ious smiles ct IIeayen'-such are the
words of Washington" can never be ex-
pected on nation that disregaris the eter-
nal rues of order and right DIring elev-
EN- years OF perverse government those
rules were disregarded, and ii came to pass
that men who should firmly avow the sem
timents of Washington aud Jefferson and
: Franklin and Chancellor Livingston, were
disfranchised for the public service; that
the spoiess Chief Justice whom Washing
ton placed at the head of our Supreme
Court could by no possibility have beer
nominated for that office, or ccnfirmed,-
Nay, the corrupt Influence invaded even th'
very home of justice. The final decree o
the Supreme Court, in It's decision on apar
ticular case, must be respected and obeyed
the present Chief Justice has on one mem
orable appeal accompanied his decision wit
an impassioned defamation, wherein viii
= profound immortality which no one has a
!. yet fully laid bare, treating the people {
the United States as a shrew to be tame
by an open scorn of the facts of history
! with dreary industry collecting evidence
of cases where justice may have slumbere
;, or weakness been oppressed, compensatin
for want Of evidence by confidence Of a:
sertion, with partiality that would hay
disgraced an advocate neglecting human
!, decisions of Colonial Courts and the endu
ing memorials of colonial statute-books.
!; his party zeal to prove that the Fathers
: our Country held the negro to have g
rights which the white man was bound
) respect" he has not only denied the rigl
:. of man and the liberties of mankind, b
!, has not left foothold for the liberty Of t
:. white man to rest upon.
mi Chief Justice TaRey.
us That ill-starred disduisi;ion of Tame
to- who, / trust, did not intend to hang out {
of flag of Disunion, is the fountain-head
i'll this rebellion that offence to the consco
i've memory of the millions convulsed our cot
w, try with the excitement which swept oy
pie those of us who vainly hoped TO preserve
life strong and sufficient though narrow isthn
yer that might stand between the conflict
sty floods. No nation can adopt that judgm
Ter, as its rule fnd live the judgment has II
lin no element of political vitality. | will
on, say il is an innovation of the dead pa
lis there never was past that accepted 81
on opinions. If we want the opinions recei'
,er- in the days when our Constitution '
in framed, we will not take them second b;
was from our Chief Justice we will let
heir men Of that day speak for themselves
5 OF How will our American magistrate 5
ant when arraigned, as he will be, before
tely tribunal Of humanity; how terrible will
$ OF the verdict against him, when he is pu
the comparison with Washineton's polit
'ple teacher the great Mantesquieu, the enli'
late ened magistrate of France, in which
tied esteemed the worst days of her monart
ndi- The Argument from the difference of !
no which Taney thrusts forward with pass
ven ate confidence, as a prcef of complete
rom qualification, is brought forward by N
our tesquieu as scatlling satire on all the bi
dis of despots who were supposed to upl
ght. slavery as tolerable in itself The right
Iited mankind. that precious word which ha,
=. equivalent in the language of Ilindos
or Judea, or Greece, or Rome, or any a
ner- Christian tongue, found its supporter
n Of Washington, and Hamilton in Fran
,ton. ard Livingston in Otis, George Ma
pnce and Galsden; in all the greatest me
un- our early history. The one rule from W
IN IN the makers of our first confederacy
into then Of our national Constitution n
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