Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-30
MEMPHIS APPEAL
SATURDAY.. :: OCTOBER 80, 1876.
THEWRIT OF HABEAs CORPUS.

THE WRIT OF HaBEAs CORPUS
The attempt to deprive Joseph Nj.
Tighe Of the benefits Of the sacred writ
Of ha5sas corpus by smuggling him TO
Cincinnati through an underground
railroad, has been execrated by every
citizen OF Memphis. Judge Ray,
through the efficiency and ability Of
those interchangeable attorneys, hessrs.
Patterson and Lowe, very properly in
terfered with the bloody ruffisns and
vulgar desperadoes, who sought by
stealth, pistols, handouts, and maua-
cles, to deprive citizen OF his constltu-
tional rights. During the war, often
the accursed gives Of tyrsnts and usuIp-
ers chsfed the soul and cut into the
ankles of freemer, hustled off to prison,
and there restrained OF their liberties Tor
months without knowing the crimes re-
puted to them. But the war is over,
the right Of hd5eds corpus is restored TO
the people and, Jealous Of their liberties
and constitutional rights, they are indiS-
nant at every attempt to subvert them.
Liberty. free and unrestrained as the
air we breathe, is the natural right OF
the citizen, and he should never be de-
prived OF this inalienRble right except
by the process Of law. The meaning ef
the ha6eas corpus is now the same that
is attached TO it in England from the
time o. the barons TO the present day.
1t is the right of the citizen, when ar
rested in time of peace, to demand Of
the courts, not to discharge him, but to
say under the sanctity Of an oath wheth-
er OF not he is properly held. No ciu-
zen can be justly robbed of this inesu'
mable right, which is intended to cover
every cause of illegally restricted Hber-
ty. The effort to steal from Mr.. Tlghe
his liberty, his constitutional rights, Is
more villsinous and disgraceful than an
attempt to steal his goods and chsttels.
1t is contrary to the genius OF our insti-
buttons, ths age in which we live, and
the progress Of civilization to which |
this century has reached. But what care
such remorseless blood-hounds as James
]. and Alexander NJ. Smith for law?
They consp,red together, and by fraud
and ialsehOOI PLACED citizen in duress,
and held him there in defiance Of tie
laws Of his country. Whatever may be
the offending Of Joseph II. Tighe, We
are glad tlst he will escape the
clutches Of the brutes and ruttlans who
are not men in anything save the form
which they have disgraced. These cres-
lures have shown by their tyranny that
they are towards, for it is indeed true
that poltroons are always cruel in power
while the brave are the tender and the
daring are the loving. They are Of that
class Of unccmpassionate knsves who,
dressed in little brief authority, never
fail TO cut up all sorts Of fantastic ca
pers. As jailers they would be savages.
In time Of war, as prisOn-keepers, they
would chalk out the dead.line, and en-
joy the shooting Of the lousy prisoners
they delighted in starving. We have
no doubt these brutes of the large aud ex-
tensive Smith family spend their leisure
hours in impsliDg flies on pins. No
doubt, when boys, they often Prod out
the eyes Of kittens with jagged stick,
and the cOnvulsive struggles and wild
stsggeripgs Of the poor animals afforded
ecststic joy and q deliriOus pleasure
which exploded in loud outlaws. The
brutal instincts Of their boyhood still
blossom in manhood, for their brutality
toward Tighe and the estimable lady
who kindly interposed, as woman al
ways do for the wronged and dis
tressed, shows that nothing would af-
ford them 80 much amusement as TO sat-
urate the hair of their favorite old |
dCg-if such creatures are capa- |
bic of favoring anything besides |
their own mean instincts-with |
kerosene and then firing it in order TO |
enjoy the yells and eontOrtions OF the |
agonized cur. Such men are too |
cowardly to venture on battlefield, but |
would be courageous in plundering the |
dead and in mangling their bodie s, tear |
ing out their entrails and in cutting off |
their ears, MASKING the nose and boring |
out the eyes with a bearded pitchfork. |
Instead Of sneaking about the country |
with acquisitions, handouts and gives
in their pockets, they ought to spend |
their Sabbaths in witnessing dog fights,
bull-bstiDg, and rst-killiDg. Were these |
the days Of martyrs, this charming brace |
OF Smiths would volunteer their services |
to drive the wedge into iron shoes. In |
them Caliguls would have found con-
genial spirit, for they would never have |
sickened at the tortures which his in.
genuity invented. Ohio, instead of |
sending these brutes to Memphis to kid |
nap, maltreat, fetter and abuse one Of |
our citizens, should give them employ |
ment in some slsUghterhouse where they |
could enjoy the luxury Of driving the
hook into the quivering jaw Of some
poor lame hog, or giost over the death
rattle in the Threats which they had
cut. These fellows never laid the kind
ly hand upon the head Of little child,
and the strong arm Of the law should
lay It's hands upon their wicked heads
and place them. in that dungeon to
which they would consign their neigh
boTs.
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