Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-09

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ceding, the Supreme Court protesting, his
popularity, influence and even life in jeopar-
dy,his Cabinet fleeing, Congress denouncing
and impeachment imminent, In the majesty
of truth, and In the purity and firmness of
noble nature, pronounced the judgment
civil liberty became its own master again,
labor was free, prosperity dominant, and
jackson immortal in the history of his
country. M .u .rgr lI iaTru
We need another such victory. May
God grant us another such a man, ordained
to rescue us from like portentous evils,T
I. The Democratic PG,ty--When II ruled, liber-
T. peace, and prosperity prevailed: with its over
throw, came oppression, war and devastation with
its restoration to power liberty, peace and prosper
ity will revive. ....I'... I..i l.yi-s..4 .fff-.
Response by Hon. c. A White. IN gV
8. 0Aio--Great in her geographical position. her
extensive territory, her fertile soil, her mineral
intelligent people her 1893, 900 Democratic voters =
| Her glory will be complete when Democracy shall
once more rule within her borders.
Response by Hon. Hugh J. Jewett. @
0. The Writ Of Ha6eds o0rpas-A birthright Of
the American people; sacred shield against or
preston, When 1t shall cease To be valued by the
people they will be readyor the letters Of dospot
ism.
Responded to as follows, by
Hon. Frank HI. Hurd.
More than six hundred years ago, on a
sunny day of June, upon the grassy plain
of Runnymede," scene was enacted upon
which the eyes of the lovers of human
rights have ever delighted to dwell. The
sound of martial music. the measured
march of armed men, and the frequent dis
play of military banners indicated that
war had been invoked to settle questions
that peaceful measures had failed TO deter
mine. The King OF England, his hands red
with the blood Of his own family, was sur
rounded by his subjects who demanded
from him guarantees for their rights, to
which, according to their customs, they
were entitled. Though for years he had
denied their requests, he was now compelled
TO grant them, and to confirm, by solemn
act, those rights which the unwritten law
had so insecurely established. Long nego-
tiations had been engaged in, but to no pur-
pose. Those grim barons were no longer
to be haffled, and while the sun yet blazed
in the sky of that summer day, unwilling
John placed his hand and seal to the Great
Charter, and that quiet plain of Runney-
mede passed into immortality.
Upon a thousand battle-felds British
valor has achieved victories, and won laurels
that shall remain forever green upon the
brow of England; thousand naval en-
gagements have caused the Cross Of st.
George to wave in triumph upon every sea;
in literature, science and the arts, Bacon,
Newton, Locke, Shakespeare, Milton, Rey-
nOlds, and host of Others, have given to
England a glory greater than that of other
lands; but still the grandest day in English
history is that summer day OF 1915 when
Magma Charta was eXtorted from King
John. The principle which constitutes the
crowning glory of that instrument, and its
best claim to immortality, is thus expressed
in the barbarous Latin of those ancient
days: ..... POS
"Nullus liber homo capiaturvel imprisone-
tur aut dissaisratur aut utlagetur aut aliquo
modo destruatur, nee super cum ibimus nee
super cum mittemus, nisi per legale judici-
um parium suorunl, vel per legem terrJe."
The great commoner Of England declared
that the three words, nullus liber homo,
and those which followed them, were worth
all the classics. They taught the King that
he could no longer with impunity violate
the rights of the people. They taught the
people and kept ever before them the great
doctrine OF personal liberty.
But by what process were the people TO
be secure in the exercise of their freedom?
Without some means by which man un-
lawfully detained could be speedily releas-
ed, the people instead of being freemen
were slaves. The wisdom of the English
law provided a remedy in the writ of hdbeds
corpus. This writ, the date of whose origin is
unknown, became in time as dearly priced as
the right of personal liberty itself. Though
there were other processes known to the
English law by which liberation from lille
gal confinement could be procured, yet the
writ of hdbeGs corpus was so general in its
application that 1t eventually became the
only writ used for that purpose. By its
operations, the prisoner, be he prince
or peasant, was discharged from un-
lawful confinement. Every prison door
opened at its approach. No bars were
so strong as to successfully resist its
power. The secrets Of no dungeon were
hidden from its gaze. 1t bound the hands
of the despot. 1t broke the chains that tyr
amy forged. 1t struck the fetters from
the limbs of every innocent person. It
guarded as with flaming swords the doors
OF every mans castle and forbade the en-
trance of any one unless armed with lawful
authority. 1t furnished the great barrier
between the arbitrary will of the monarch
and the rights of the helpless subject.
What wonder that the English people prz-
ed III What wonder that they contended
so gallantly for its maintenance! 1t is not
strange that the arbitrary arrest of Hamp-
uSil, OdIuCl duu buoiT uIdN0 COuupdbTlOIS,
and the refusal to grant them the writ of
hdbeds corpus, should set in motion popu-
lar impulse which did not rest until
king was dragged from his throne and his
life demanded of him as an expiation OF his
crimes against Hbvrty. by tho w0tohful-
ness of the masses; the faithfulness of their
leaders; their courage in hours of danger;
their virtue, in hours of corruption, and
their triumphs In days Of battle, the great
writ was maintained and preserved, and
became the glorious birthright Of every
Englishman. l-''I'li Ni t'A'I 90
The writ of habeas corpns, while estab-
lished by Engllshmen for their Ownprotec-
ton, was destined to bless another people
who occupied another land. The citizen
of England who crossed the sea and sought
new home in the American wilderness,
brought with him the memories of his
fathers, and insisted upon the exercise0
all the rights, and the epjoymentof all the /.
liberties to which he was entitled while a I
resident of his native land. During the
colonial existence, frequent instances soe-
CURED in which application was made for
the writ of hdbeds corpus and the benetit,Of
the writ allowed. When the Federal Com :
stitution was created, q provision was
adopted prohibiting the suspension of the
writ, excepbin certain specified instances.
From that dayuntil the commencement of :
the late fTar, no guarantee Of personal lib K
erty was more warmly cherished by the |,
American people than the writ of kabeas
corpus. During that happy period arbltra-r
nv arrests were reunkn0wnsHN No citizen lan-TH
guished or died IN prison for the oifense Of \
exercising his ConsSitutional rights. The \
monarchicalerao of akmerican history had