The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-07-17

against our persons, and threats agains,
our property, because we stand up TO say
that you, and we, and all shalt have our
rights; because we stand up 10 saw, the
family circle shall not be entered, and, in
Eoglish parIance. every mans home shall
be his castle within which he is safe from
intrusion. (Applause) Why, what i.
the glory of people and the glory Of
nation! 1t is not the magnitude of its
power; is not the extent ofits dominions.
1t is the fast that the humblest home i.
safe under its protection. The proudest
boast ever uttered by Britain's proudes.
statesmen was this not Of martial achieve
ments not of the triumphs upon the field
no. of tha: wonderful dominion upon
which the sun never sets-no. it was this
that the British monarch could never enter
without permission the humblest home in
the land, although its broken ceilings
might give but scsnty shelter to its hum
bic inmates. Great applause) For
what are government. constituted but for
this not for dominion, not for grandeur,
be reached; that every man should enjoy
the rights Of person and security of home,
and freedom Of conscience and the enjoy
ment Of his property, subject to the laws
These are the great object of governments;
and any government, and any system iaat
comes short Of this, fails in its objects and
any declaration that assails or endangers
these great objects is treason against hu-
man rights. (App!ausel Liberty was
wrought out in the battle field. That
wonderful people who founied this great
state, the Ho!Iardcrs, who for eighty years
battled against the martial I:.ws and mar
tial power, Of Spain. made it a principle
which sustained .i.nem daring ,ha, long con-
test, and enabled them to render their his
tory glorious 10 the annals Of mankind
Were personal rights and personal liber-
ties were suspended by our forefathers du-
ring our Revolutionary contest? You
heard the words Of that Declaration Of In
dependence, which said that men had a
ri ght to trial by jury that the military
authority should never be exalted above
the civil Jurisdiction; that men should
not be transported abroad for trial-Nre
mendous applause )-,hat they should have
all the rights and privileges known 20 En-
elsh jurisprudence and English law and
vet to-day we are told that the men who
put forth that declaration of rights and Of
independence amid the roar Of bullet,
when our nation was struggling into exist
ence in all it's weakness, who declared and
they made their declaration good by their
conduct through that coniest-that these
men who uttered this declaration in war
made Conslitution that dies and shrinks
away in war-tlat men learned i'll the PeriIs
Of revolution had formed a government,
| under which we live, that was not equal
! to the very highest purposes for which gov
ernments are constituted. tell you it is
a libel upon our fathers. (Great applause }
SO far from it being true that those who
formed this Constitution contemplated
that these powers should be suspended,
YOU find in all these provisions particular
care for all the dangers and the exioencies
Of war; yoE find numerou, provisions
that are meant to guard against the very
dangers that now menace us. IonF at
tention has been called to the fact By the
gentleman who preceded me. Why vas
it that they so carefully guarded all your
rights amid public disorder if they meant
that the mere existence O. disorder should
suspend the barriers of public order and
private rights? This doctrine Of the sus-
pension of the Constituton-thi doctrine
of the suspension Of the laws, is uncon-
stitutiona. is unsound, is unjust. is treas
enable Tremendous applause, and way
ino o: hats and handkerchefs. 4 voice ::
"Tha,'s inst the word!) | an one Of
those who are full of hope for the future
Not that I underrate the dangers which
th reatens us-not that do not depIore as
much as living man can the terrible rava-
ees of this war But why does war rage
in our land 4? It was because the people
of this generation have lost the virtues
aud patriotism, and wisdom of their faith
ers. 1t was because we ha ! become indif
ferent to those great truths which we have
now laid before us as if they were curios-
iies in legal literature, instead Of being
principles that should be impressed upon
the heart and mind Of every Amercan.-
| tell YOU Why am full of hope that our
liberties will be maintained, our nation res
tored. and order once again prevail over
this land of ours. 1t is this Examine
Yourselves and [ ask you how many men
there are within the sound o: my voice
who knew twelve months ago what the
! Constitution of this country was! | do
not say that YOU did not understand it in
teIIectua|Iy. | do not mean to say that
it was not imprinted upon your memory.
| I do no. mean to say that it had not re-
ceivel your assent; but it was not until
we we're made to feel, as our fathers felt,
the value Of this declaration. that they
had put forth, that any Of US could ever
see the significance Of the Constitution OF
our country and the Declaration Of indie,
pendencc (Applause) We have accept
! ei il. AS | said, mentally and intellectual
J ": but whv was it. when these familiar
words sounded upon your ears on this oc-
casion. as YOU have heard them often be-
fore on the anniversary Of our conntrv's
liberty. that they s'irre your very hearts
| within von and made vour blood tinple in