The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-16

States, is keeping them out Of their rights;
and the not less wonderful case of certain
innumerable and mysterious heirs who prove
that the cruel oppressor, old Trinity, keeps
them out of their due and true inheritance
all of course for the good of mems souls
! and the glory of sound religion. 1t is GER
| tain that the question of abstract right is in
| favor of the oppressed, as it always is. But
! alas the terrible facts of possession and power
! are in favor of the oppressor. Trinity stands
! there in obdurate stone, perfectly typihed by
that infexible steeple-as Indifferent to the
Anneke Jams argument as If that excellent
argument were only one more odor floating
up from the Jersey meadows or the scaven-
gers scows. So stand also the impersonated
States as if they were all one Bunker Hill,
unshal1en by such a legal earthquake as the
objections of Sharkey-unsympat even
with the lamentation of jeremiah. But when
was right ever triumphant in this wicked
world When was it that the laws delay
and the insolence of Office had not Justice and
merit at their mercy? What a consolation it
must be to the heirs and to Sharkey and to
jeremiah, that there is not a chance for the
success of their cases in this world of wrong,
since that very fact is such an evidence of the
Justice of their claims
Anneke Jams was the buxom widow of Rolf
Jansen, and she married Dominic Bogardus.
This all the world knows or ought to know;
for it is part of the history of the golden age
of our city. Time went on the sands ran
down the CLASSY gorge for many pleasant sum-
mers, and Anneke Jams, like Dido and Timan-
dra, and Cleopatra and other illustrious girls
of antiquity, forgot her loves and debts one
day, and folded her plump little hands for the
long, long sleep. In fact she died. Now, it
had happened to the fair Anneke to have
heirs; and the heirs-as heirs will-sold her
property and spent the money. The property
had been granted to Anneke's first husband by
Van Twiller; then the grant had been con-
tinued to Anneke by Stuyvesant; it was con-
tinued again by the English authorities; the
property was sold by the heirs to Lovelace,
and in the palmy days of Anne it was given to
Trinity. But perhaps it was not properly sold
to LOvelace; perhaps one of the eight heirs
was not present when the conveyance was
made perhaps the conveyance was null. Why
should not the heirs-numbering thousands
take their position on this shadowy "per-
haps," and try the case with the present
holder, obstinate old Trinity? Let them 60
on, by all means. They will find it an agree
able way to encourage young men in the study
of abstruse points of law-an encouragement
that will benefit society and multiply legal
tones. They will find it an effective way to
spend their money; and some centuries hence,
iudge-brought up by Trinity, of course
will decide that right is entirely on the side of
the heirs, but that some technical defect in
proceedings vitiates their case from the be-
ginning, and Trinity will chime calmly on
through still other centuries.
This may be very well for impoverished and
ambitious heirs but would it not be superla-
tive folly to reason thus in the matter of Gov
ernment, and suppose it to be craftsmanship
Yet how much better is the case now before
the Supreme Court Not whit. 1t is case
i'll which men have set themselves to the
microscopic inspection of the technicalities
of law; shutting their eyes to great events,
and to the fact that the laws they dis
cuss have been absolutely put aside, and
are no more relevant than would be the
laws of the Medes and Persians. Here is a
learned lawyer, once a Cabinet officer, who
gives us a serious recital of the colonial his
tory of the State of Georgia, and the War of
Independence, and brings it all down to the
present time to show-what Merely that
certain recently made acts of Congress are
likely to 'viOlate the Federal Constitution, -
as it was framed for our Government in pur-
suance of the peace with Great Britain.
Beautiful solicitude for the integrity of the
Federal Constitution The lawyer does not
see that the Constitution so far as it relates
to the State for which he pleads, was first
violated by that State, and by the war which
that Stage waged against the Constitution
see that his client slew the defender he now
calls upon; and when he prates of violations
of the Constitution, he torgets the maxim
about coming into court with clean hands.
Judge Sharkey and Mr.. Buchanan's AttOr-
ney-General, and other lawyers can, it thus
appears, easily shut their eyes to great revo-
luton. 1t is said that two armies were once
unconscious of an earthquake that shock the
very field ON which they were desperately
fighting. Here, however, are men who can
not only ignore the shock, but also the ruin
| left behind-whO can argue as if there had
been no earthquake in the presence of the rent
mountains, the diverted river, the upheaved
! plain and the hundred cities whose domes
| have been busted down and scattered by the
! wind Since learned lawyers can thus ignore
one great revolution, we wonder that they did
not 90 a little further and ignore another
Why stop at the Declaration of Independence
If this great war just over, with its hundred
tremendous battles, was nothing, why per
haps the war that was waged in rs, with it;
half hundred little skirmishes was nothing
also. Will not these lawyers prove that We
are the subjects of Victoria, as the representa-
tive of our some time sovereign George the
Third Let them take it up at once; never
mind the facts; the argument will be admirable
! MaximiIian In MeXIcO-Chapter Sever
Hundred and Ten.
From The Herald.
For some days the curtain has been dowI
on the Mexican scene. There has been an in
terval-not, perhaps of peace or even repose
and now the remarkable drama is on tn
boards once more. Macmillan, Quer6taro
Escobedo prestamos traitors foreigners, vic