Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-10
of Personal lrJgtns
---6raniIng Of Magma Charts
at Runnymede.

L uIhs pttNiouh u tht tltctlollf iluus % .
Cox, the gallant and fearless representative
of the Columbus District, drew two pic
lures worthy of the most artistic pencil,
and which, together, will ever possess a
lively interest wherever liberty is cherish
ed--one of the granting of Magma Char
Ter at Runnymede, and the other of Its
consecration at Westminster Abbey with
the authority of the Catholic Church.
After reciting some of the more notorious
instances of the violations of personal
rights and liberties Of which the Admins
traton has been guilty, Mr.. Cox said
The traveller who visits that isand mead.
| ow in the river Thames, near Windsor, now
used as race course aud still known as Run
nymede, does not 90 there to see the horses
run, but because that meadow marks on era
in the progress of human freedom There
six hundred and lorty-four years ago, on the
morning of the 18th of August the iron clad
barons met King John and wrested from him
the rame rights which have been violated by
Abraham Lincoln, and ostracised by the IN
s..
These rights were -iriten in the Latin of that
day Mullins liber homo cnpialur" it began
Dead language, but vital with liberty, which
Chatham said was with all the classics
"'No free man shall be arrested or impris-
oned Or deprived of his own free household,
or OF his lioerties, or OF his own free customs.
or outlawed, or banished, 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 arc endeavoring
to uproot now that il has grown from tbe
acorn to the oak As another (Judge Thom.
as Of Massachusetts has so finely expressed
il, from the gray Of that morning slreamed
the rays, which uplifting with the hours, cour-
sing with the years, aud keeping pace with
the centuries have enoirced the whole earth
with the glorious light of English liberty--the
liberty for which our fathers planted these
commonwealth in the wilderness for which
they went through the baptism Of blood and
fire in the Revolutions which they imbedded
and hoped TO make immortal in the Consttu.
ton; without which the Constitution would
not be worth the parchment on which il was
written Cheers. As If to make this great
charter sacred forever in the Anglo Saxon
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