Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-06-10
Ihe Power Of the King Ia Exile
his subjects.

Inc POWER Of the King 10 Exile
r. his subjects.
/ (From the Crisis.)
Blackstone, in his commentaries on the
Magma Charta lays down the law of PR
soNAL LIBERTY in the following language.
Ii TINS Is the law of Englishmen in peace
and IN war, why should an American ex-
| pect less, or submit to less:
| The PERSONAL LIBERTY that every
hngllshman may claim a right to is to
ABIDE IN his own country as long AS he
pieases, and not to be driven from it unless
by the sentence of the law The King.
indeed, by his royal perogative, may, issue
OUT his writ ne ereat reg,aatn, and prohibit
any OF his subjects from going into foreign
parts without license. This may be ne
! cessary for the public service and safe
guard OF the commonwealth But no
power on earth, except the authority of
Parliament, can send any subject of Eng
land out OF the land against his will. no.
not even criminal; for exile and trans
portauon are punlshments at present un-
known to the common law and when
ever the latter is now inflicted, it is either
by the choice of the criminal himself. to
escape a capital punishment, or else by
the express direction of some modern act
OF Parliament. To this purpose the
Great Charter declares that no freeman
shall be banish2d, unless by the Judgment
OF his peers, or by the law of the land.
And by the Habeas Corpus Act, 81 Car.
H.. c.2 (that second Magma Charta and
stable bulwar& of our liberties, J it is en-
acted, that no subject of this realm, who
is an inhabitant of England, Wales or
Berwick, shall be sent a prisoner into
Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, or
places btyond the seas (where they cannot
have the full benefit and protection of the
common law;) but that all such impri-
sonments shall be illegal the person who
shall dare to commit another contrary to
this law shall be disabled from bearing
| any office, shall incur the penalty of a
PrGsnaHUe. and be incapable of receiving
the kings pardon and the party suffer-
ing shall also have his private action
against tie p rSon committing, and all his
| aldrrs, advisers, and abettorS, and shall
recover treble costs. besides his damages,
which no jury shal! assess at less than five
hundred ponnds"
This being The law Of Eng,anl, from
which VIC copied largely in the formation
O. our Government, we only added re
St''ct 0gs on power 10 comport with our
still trecr Institutions Here all power
Resides in 1.-The people," and executive
and all other power is restricted by written
constitutions, and any amount of laws, to
secure those constitutional rights.
Where, then, does Mr. Lincoln get the
power to er,le American citizens Where
docs he get the power to say who shall
! and who shall not reside in the country
Has Ohio also not rights OF her own as a
sovereign State? Has she not claim
! upon her OWN citizns2 What does our
Constitution mean in its language and bill
Of rights? What, all the laws passed
| under that Constitution and in accordance
with this bill of rights anu its other pro-
! visions Gov. Seymour, of New York,
! the bold, the just, the true Governor of a
great state. made scverc-severe be-
! cause true-thrust at such Governors as
! Tod and such Judges as Leavitt when he
! said. Even noU the Governors and
| Courts of some of the great Western
| States have sunk mtO unSigR.t tfcdnce before
| the despotic power claimed and exercised
| by military men ,cho hare been into their
| bordas.'' Again Governor Seymour pro-
/ claims from his executive chair. speaking
| of the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, &c If
this proceeding is approved by the Govern
mcnt and sanctioned by the people, it is
not merely a step toward TeUolut'on-it Is
! rer0luhOn"
These are words of fearful import
coming from so high quarter and from
/ so great a man as he who so nobly pre-
sides over the Empire State of the East.
| The whole question, therefore, resolves IT.
self into a pure question of 'persona
| liberty" as secured to us BY the great
labors of our fathers. 1t is no longer q
| question of n1en-ncn sink into utter IN
significance in such an hour of peril tc
every mans "personal liberty" de
who doubts dodges, or prevaricates ro'o
is damned to all future time.
ca The Constitution of Ohio reads
Z" Article 1st, Section u. No person
shall be transported out of the State FOL
any otfense committed within the same
and no conviction shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture of estate"
Coop FOR CAMBRIA-The Democracy
of Cambria held their County Convention
last week, and nominated full and strong
ticket. We are particularly pleased with
and cannot refrain from congratulatin!
! &c IL .,