The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-23
CHI A R L E S TON. .
THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 2s, 1853.
why Mott

The Bill of Rights reported in the Con-
vention by Delegate Bowen, Chairman OF
the Committee on the Judiciary, is refresh
ing. His 26th paragraph declares that
"the estates of suicides shall descend or
vest, as in cases of natural desti as they
have always done from the times Of the
Roman Emperorsl, and that if any person
shall be killed by casualty [killed dead,
we suppose he means] there shall be no
forfeiture by reason thereof" A public
token of esteem is due 20 this admirable
and seasonable safeguard to the rights OF
property. There is only one proviso that
we would suggest as an amendment to the
article. We beg Delegate Bowen to add,
that if, in the latter case, that is when a
man is skilt entirely" he should come to
life again, as sometimes happens, the for
feiture then demanded by justice, should be
strictly limited to his funeral expenses.
With this addition the clause would be per-
feet. The penalty would not be heavy, if the
pig which the deceased was carrying off,
when the casualty occurred, should be
claimed for this necessary and sacred pur-
pose.
The 29th clause declares that emo stand
ing army shall be kept up without the con-
sent of the General Asse emily, and the mil
itary shall, in all cases and at all times, be
in strict subordination to the civil power. !"
In other words, the General Assembly,
which is to have the same complexion as
the present pie-bald convention, may keep
up standing army, and may summon this
new Pretorian guard, i'll all places and at
all times, to execute its desired will. Here,
as in Tennessee, the law of the bayonet is
to oppress the State, subjecting it to the
sway of minority wholly composed of
aliens, renegades and menials Mr.. Bowen,
in his humble way, accepts the lesson that
the Swedish Chancellor OxENsT1ERN gave
his son: Nssois, mi fiji, quantuls sesentia
gubrnatr mundus. he remembers per-
chance, how we'll sANcHo governed Bara-
taria; he only forgets what happened when
SANcHo went to war.
The 32d clause declares that emo citizen
shall be exiled or prevented from emigra-
ting on any pretenoe whntever." But what
if his country's good requires his incarce-
ration? What if his liberty to come and
20 makes the lives and the property Of his
fellow-citizens insecure? What if he should
be q murderer, thief, demagogue infam-
ing and arming the giddy multitude, and
claiming the privilege of being at large ?
What if he should be an employer or hire
ling, seeking to break his contract, and to
evade his obligations, whether of service or
Of pay What if he wors SANcHo himself
trying to escape from his trusting and for
lorn -oitizens of Barataria p? Surely
there ought to be some proviso here
The thirty-fourth article claims that
every association formed within the State
and taking name, may apply to the ".Gene-
raj Assembly" and be entitled to receive
letters of incorporation to enable them to
hold estates real and personal. We confess
that we were at first taken aback by this
novel stroke of policy; it's a1iomatic wis
dom and profound originality appeared
sublime. We expected 20 read in the next
clause the declaration that every man has
the right to dine at hiH own table, and to
sleep in his own bed. We concluded that
some legal wag had been imposing on the
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. But
ref ection suggested that the Assembly re-
ferred to, is the bogus assembly now in its
birth-throeB. The clause provides that Del
egates MAcKEY, and Bowen, and WHITE
MORE with their white disciples, and MosEs,
with his colored brothers, shall exercise
the powers reposed in the representatives
of the State of South Carolina.
Upon the real, as on the mimic stage,
after the bloody tragedy comes the farce.
1t would be unkind to withhold our laughter.