Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-11-25

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in The course OF avery able ANA phcc
tive speech ut The Cooper Institute, New
York ON Saturday night, the Hon. $. 3.
Cox. the gollaut and fearless Reptescntn-
two Of the Ohio Democracy, drew two
pictures worthy Of the artistic pencil, and
which, together, will ever possess a lively
interest wherever liberty is cherished
one Of tho granting Of Magma Charta at
Runnymode, and the other Of It's conse-
crption ut Westminster Abbey with the
authority Of the Catholic Church. The eG-
fcctwhich they produced upon the immense
audience, says the UOrH was striking
After rcciting some Of the more notorious
instances Of the violations OF personal
rights and liberties Of (which the Admins
ualion has beer guilty, Mr.. Cox said -
"The traveller who visits that island
meadow in the river Thames, near Wind
sor, now used as u race course, and still
kuoYnas Runnymede, does not so there
to see the horses run, but because that
meadow marks an ela in the progress of
humnH freedom. There, six hundred and
fOrty-iour years ago, on the morning of the
18th Of August, the iron-clad barons met
King John and wrosted from him the same
rights which have been violated by Abra-
ham Lincoln, and oslraciseG by the in
domniN bill Of the last Congress. Cheers. |
These rights were written in the Latin
language OF that day. MuiiuS EJsr homo
capia'r, it began. Dead language, bat vi
tai with liberty, which Chatham said was
with all the classics.
a. No free man shall be arrested or i'm
prisoned or deprived of his own free
household. or of his liberties, or of his Own
/ free customs, or cutlawed, or banished, or
/ injured in any manner, nor will we pass
sentence upon him, nor send trial upon
/ him, unless By the hgai ju3ymcat Of lis peers
Of By The lao Of Tie lrad,' Cheers.
This was the germ OF our civil free
dom, which the pigmies Of to-day are en-
deavor ny to uproot, now that has grown
, from the acorn to the oak As another
| (Judge Thomas, Of Massachusetts,) has
so finely expressed it, from the gray OF
I that morning streamed the rays, which,
/ uplifting with the hours, courslng with the
years, and keeping pace with the centu.
I lics, lave enCirCled the whole earth with
/ the glorious light OF English liberty-thc
! liberty fol which our fathers planted there
/ commemorative in the wilderness for
which they went through the baptism OF
blood and fire in the Revolution which
/ they imbedded and hoped to make immor.
tai in the Constitution without which
4 tho Constitution would not be worth the
q |, Il,
/ if 10 make this great charter sacred forey-
, or in the Anglo-SaXon memory, to connect
( it with the holest emotions Of religion,
and to sanction it by the hopes and terrors
( Of the unseen world, the Catholic hierar.
chy Of that day-long before Protestanisn
arose-before the reformation before We
had the transcendental light of our Puri
tan preachers laughter this Catholic
hierarchy, then the friend of the oppress
ed and the people, were couvoked. A
few days after the unwilling king signec
the charter. would like to make a pic
ture to your eye of that great convocation
They met III Westminster Abbey, the
mausoleuui of the dead royalty and geniu
of Britain. Here was the king upon hi,
throne, sceptred and crowded, lmpurpleC
lords temporal in their scarlet gowns OF
the right were the gentlemen OF EnglanC
representing the Commons-the people o
tho realm-and within the altar were tn
Lords spiritual, clad in all the pomp o
their pCntlficial apparel. In the mid,
stood stephen LangdOn, primate OF Eng
? land Archbishop of Canterbury. Tn
. great organ rolls its music amidst tn
Gothic arches the air is suilused with
dim religions light from the stained win
dowr, trcmbes with the thrill symptom
divine, aud the choir sing II Dsa, h11Hl
- mus praise TO Goa for the great Charte
. OF human freedom Censors swing nh,
| the incense rises, an Offering to tho Go,
ofjustice And in that Impressive pres
eTce the archbishop arises, and, gatherln
+ upon his brow and in his voice the terror
0 of the invisible and eternal world, he sc
, questers and excludes, and from the bod
of our Lord Jesus Christ, from the comps
ny OF the saints in Heaven and the goo
on earth, he forever eXcommun;cates an,
accuses every one who should dare vic
1 late that great charter of Ango-Saxo
+ freedom Cheers. Think you, men {
New York, these curses are not livin
yet A Massachusetts Senator has aai
h that your honored Governor is now bein
t dragged at the chariot Of a Federal Execl
c uYe usurping the rights of the people an
3, violating the great charter, as cternize
in our traditions, our history, and OF
u Constitution. But the people of th
= country are meeting as Of old-not in an
J. Gothic monastery, not in the presence of ii
! great hierarchs, not with ceremony
" Church and State, not to the music of o
d gan and choir or tho rising incense
IS praise, not amidst the fulminations
d primatcs but under the great sky
4 Heaven, from the Atlantic to the Missis
y iPpi; and they too are sequestering an
/ excluding, accommodating and accur
1t ing-and from the body of the Just God
e Heaven and from the company of II
;s good and patriotic everywhere-[immen
" cheering and the minions Of his pow
oI who have dared in this age and land
n violate these sacred rights of personal al
T. constitutional liberty.
. nHF EMANCIpA-ION pRocIAuArIo