Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06


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ALLIED
There were careful and minute enact
ments to locate and protect the owner
ship OF property. but By no means so care
full or so minute were the enact
ments declaring offences ana providing
penalties. The caprice, the bias, and
the dishonesty of judges were much more
powerfully restrained In civil than in
criminal proceedings. Therefore, the
man who was measurably secure in the
possession and use OF his lands and
his chattels was apt 10 be painfully in
secure In the enjoyment of those rights
that we esteem the dearest and most
valuable. II was thus from the beS!n-
ming until comparatively recent date
IL was thus in primitive times, and II
was thus when, In Southern Europe,
the flower of civilization bloomed with
q color and fragrance that are still un-
Tvalled. The savage chief would put a
follower TO death, or keep him in cap
tivity when he would not venture to de-
spoil him of his little property, and
what was true of the savage chief was
equally true OF the ruler of an unimport-
ant state and Of the poten,ate who
controlled the destiny of great and
fourishing nation. There was "a sort Of
recognition Of the independence Of the
property Independence of the
mere arbitrary Will of those in power
bat there was no similar recognition aC-
corded tn. individual in his other re,a-
tons There was no similar exaltation
OF the individual as such. II foredoomed
by the authorities. 1t was matter Of
email consequence that the offence was
not within the letter of the spirit of
some positive law: for, never. heless, his
Judges could punish him by law made
Tor the case, ana hcc9tHnsly ne was
suomi'ted 10 'he mercy % the court IN
sense not uitahneu OF When'thoSe words
are now useu. Row eou'u ne Dc GER
tam o! ou'aihiiB luSlCe, or ratheT, now
could he be uncertain or suffering in1us-
tce' IL any hostility towards him con-
strained his trleis' whether he was tried
py single JaoSe OF NUMBER or judges
py dighihed senate or more turbulent
assempIageF
the centuries preceding the present are
ozark with the deadly enects OF this
vice. The story OF the constant war'
that hlled those centuries. bringing the
knowledge that to-day hardly does a
harvest grow on any field Of the OLD
World that has not been watered by
the rain OF battle, Is less pitiful than the
story OF the wrongs inflicted upon the
tens Of thousands OF men and women
singled out one by one from their fell
lows. helpless, but for Him 10 whom the
Psalmist prayed Let the signing OF
the prisoners come before Thee" and
ignorant that they had committed offences
until they were assigned TO punish