The mountain Democrat., 1863-12-25
Eloquent Extract.


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,-,- Eloquent Extract.
Hon. S. S. Cox, OF Ohio, spoke at the
Cooper Institute, New York, on the 31st
of October. The following is an extract
from his speech:
The traveller who visits that island
meadow in the River Thames, near Wind
sor, now used as race course, and still
known as Runnymede, does not 60 there
to see the horses run, but because that
meadow marks an era in the progress Of
human freedom. There, six hundred and
forty -four years ago, on the morning Of
the 18th of August, the iron-clad barons
met King John and wrested from him
the same rights which have been violated
by Abraham Lincoln, and ostracised by
the indemnity bill of the last Congress.
[Cheers.] These rights were written in
the Latin of that day. "Nullus liber no.
mo capiatur," it began. Dead language,
but vital with liberty, which Chatham
said was with all the classics.
No free man shall be arrested or i'm
prisoned or deprived of his own free
household, or Of bis liberties, or of his
own free customs, or outlawed, or ban
ished, or injured in any manner, nor will
We pass sentence upon him, nor send trial
upon him, unless by the legal judgment
of his peers, or by the law of the land. !"
[Cheers.]
This was the germ Of our civil freedom,
which the pigmies Of to-day are endeaV-
oring to uproot, now that it has grown
from the acorn to the oak I! As another
(Judgc Thomas of Massachusetts, has so
finely expressed it, From the gray Of
that morning streamed the rays which
uplifting with the hours, coursing with
the years, and keeping pace with the CEN
turtles, have encircled the whole earth
with the glorious light of English liberty
the liberty for which our fathers plant
ed these commonwea!ths in the wilder
ness; for which they went through the
baptism of blood and fire in the Revolu.
ton which they imbedded and hoped to
make immortal in the Constitution; with
out which the Constitution would not be
worth the parchment on which it was
written" Cheers AS if to make this
great charter sacred forever in the Anglo
Saxon memory TO connect it with the
holieat emotions of religion and to sane
ton It by the hopes and the teTrors of
the unseen world, the Catholic hierarchy
Of that daY-lOng before Professionalism
arose-before the Reformation-beGorew We
had the tranScendental light of our Uni
tartan preachers Qaugbter); this Catholic
hierarchy, then the friend Of the oppressed
people, were convoked few days after
the unwilling king signed the charter. l
would like to picture to your eye that
convocation. They met in Westminster
Abbey, the mausoleum of the dead royal
ty and genius Of Britain. Here was the
king upon his throne, sceptered and
crowned, impurpled in his robes Of Office ;
near him were the lords temporal in their
scarlet gowns; on his right were the gen.
tlemen Of England representing the Com
mons, the people of the realm. and within
the altar were the lords spiritual, clad in
all the pomp Of their pontifical apparel (!
In the midst stood Stephen Langdon,
the Primate Of England, Archbishop OF
Canterberry. The great organ rolls its
music among the Gothic arches; the air,
suffused with dim religious light from
the stained windows. trembles with the
thrill Of the symphony divine" and the
choir sing Te Deum laudamus-praise to
God for the great charter of human free.
dom! Censors swing and the incense
rises, an Offering to the God of Justice
And in that impressive presence the
Archbishop arises, and gathering upon
his brow and in his Toice the terrors of
the invisible and eternal world, he Sc
questcrs and excludes from the body of
our Lord Jesus Christ, from the company
of the sainst in heaven and good men on
earth, he forever excommunicates and &C.
curses every one who should dare violate
that great charter Of Anglo-Saxon free
dom (Cheers) Think you. men Of
New York, these curses are not living yeti
A Massachusetts, senator has said that
your bonored Governor is now being
dragged at the chariot Of federal execu-
tive, usurping the rights of the people and
violating the great charter, as eternalized
in our traditions, our history, and our
Constitution. But the people of this
country are meeting as Of old-not in
any Gothic minister, not in the presence
of the great hierarchs, not with ceremony
Of church and state, not to the music Of
organ and choir, or the rising incense of
praise; not amidst the fulminations of
primates; but under the great sky of
heaven, from the Atlantic to the ,Missis-
sippi and they too are sequestering and
excluding, accommodating and accurs-
ing-and from. the body of the just God
in heaven and from the company of the
good and patriotic everywhere-Abraham
Lincoln Immense cheering) and the min
ions Of his power, who have dared in this
age and land to violate these sacred rights
of personal and constitutional liberty
Great applause.)
THE oldest rose bush, in the world is
supposed to be at Hildesheim, Hanover.
1t was planted in the ninth century BY
Louis the Pious. in 1918 Bishop HezilO
had wall built around the tree to pro-
kank - II hao Ia falsy v.,,t enHkh nosw .hooka