The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-01-07
The Birth Of Magma Charta.

At the Cooper Institute, en- Saturday |
evening previous to election, Hon. 8. 8.
Cox made one of his most happy efforts.-
With mastery hand he depicted the con-
sequences of the destructive policy of the
-adicals. We copy from the World a por-
ion Of his concluding speech. wherein he
drew two pictures; one OF the granting OF
Magma Charta, and the other of its consecra-
ton at Westminster Abbey, with the au-
thority of the Catholic Church. After re-
citing some Of the more notorious instances
of the violation of personal rights and iloer-
ties of which the administration has oeen
guilty, Mr.. Cox said:
The traveller who visits th lat island mead,
ow in the river Thames. near windsor USED
now az a race course, and still known as
Runnymede, does not go there 10 see the
horses run. but because that meadow marks
an era in the progress Of human freedom
There six hundred and forty years ago, in
the morning Of the 18th Of August, the
iron.eIad barous met King ] ohm, and wrest-
ed from him the same rights which have
been violated by Abraham Lincoln, ard
ostracised by the indemnity bill of the last
Congress. (Cheers) These rights were
written in the Latin OF that day, "Nullus
liber homo capiater' it began. Dead Jan
guage, but vital with liberty, which Chat
nam said was so with all the classics:
No man shall be arrested. or Imprisoned.
or deprived Ct his own free household, or OF
his Liberties, or OF his own free customs, or
outawed and banished, or injured in any
manner, nor will we pass sentence upon
him, unless by the legal judgment oil his
peers or by the law Of the land. (Cheers }
This was the germ of our civil freedom
which she pigmies Of to day are enGeavor-
ing to uproof, now that it has grown from
the acorn to the oak! As another (Judge
Thorn as of Massachusetts, has so finely ex-
pressed it. from the gray of that morning
streameI the rays, which uplifting with the
hours. coursing with the wears, and keep
ing pace with the centuries, have encircled
the whole earth with tho 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 Revolu.
ton: which thev .mbedded and hoped TO
m AXE immortal ia the Constitution; without
which the Constitution would not be worth
the parchment on which it is written."-
(Cheers.)
As if to make the great charter sacred
forever in the Anglo-Saxon memory; to
connect it with the hottest emotions OF re-
lision and to sanction it by the hopes and
terrors Of the unseen world, the Catholc
hierarchy eff that day-long before Protest.
anism arose, before we had the trancen-
dental light of Puritan preachers Qaughter)
this Catholic hierarchy. then the friend oil
the people, were convoked. A few days
after the unwilling king signed the charler.
would like to make a picture 10 your eye
of that great convocation. They met In
Westminster Abbey, that mausoleum OF the
dead ROYALTY and genius of Britain. Here
was the king upon his throne, sceptered
and crowned, impurped in his robes OF
office: near him were the lords temporal 10
their scarlet gowns; on his right were the
gentlemen OF England representing the
commons-the people of the realm; and
within the altar were the lords spiritual
clad in all the pomp of their pontifical APP
parel! In the midst stood Stephen Lang
don, the primate OF England, Archbishop
of Canterbury.
Tbs great organ rolls its music amidst tie g
Gothic arches; the air, suffnsed with dim
religious light upon the stained windows,
trem bies with the thrill symphony divine"
and the choir sing, Is Deun1 LGudanau'-
praise to God for the Great Charter OF hu-
man freedom. Censors swing, and the 10
cense rises, an offering to the God OF JUS
tice! And in that impressive presence the
brow and voice the terriers of the invisible
and eternal world he sequesters and Sc
cludes, and from the body of our Lord
Jesus Christ, from the compIny Of the saints
in Heaven and the good on Earth, he Tor
ever excommunicates and accuses every
one who dares violate tho Great Charter
of Angio- SAxJn freedom! Cheers y
Think Won. men Of New York. these curses
are not living yet? A Massach usettS
Senator has said that your honoreh Cover
nor is now being dragged at the chariot oil a
Federal Executive. u5urping the rights oil
tbs people and violating the great charter,
as eterDiZed in our traditions, our history
and our Constitution. But the people o.
this countay are meeting as Of old, not IN
any Gothic minister, not in the presence c.
the great hisrarchS, not with the ceremony
OF Church and State, not to the music OF
organ and choir or the rising incense OF
praise, not amidst the illumination OF prl-
mates; but under the great sky Of heaven
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, anG
they, too, are secluding and excluding, ex
com m anicaring and scoursing-lDd from
ths b ,dy Of the Just God 10 Heaven, and
from the good and patriotic everywhere
Abraham Lincoln aud the mininns Of his
power. who have dared in this age and land
to violate these sacred rights OF personal
and constitutional liberty. (Grest cheers
An AIRY CosTuME. he mate of a YES
sci lying at B rston wharf visited an in
slitution on North street one night last
week. WheR he swOke in the morning,
his room mate had gone and taken all his
clothes, and he could get no one in the place
to help him to any others. He was very
l. l.