The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-26

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that the birth of the nation on the
soil of Virginia was accidental. For,
from the inspired Book, are we not
taught thai he who would attain the
bliss of eternal life must be born again
and in our subsequent history, may
we not see the analogy between nan
and a nation? For, if the first birth
of our Republic was at jamestown on
| the 18th of May, 1907, will it be denied
that the second birth, necessary to it's
immortality, Dol place at yorktown,
| on the soil of old Virginia, on the 10
| of October 1881?
The rights OF life, liberty and pro-
| perty of the individual man seem to
have been the chief concern of the
! trainers OF the Federal Constitution
All legislative powers are vested in
| a congress of the United States; nei-
| Their the President nor the Judiciary
may legislate. All bills for raising
| revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives, the direct repre-
s~entatives of the people; the Congress
alone, except in Eases of rebellion or
invasion, may suspend the privilege
to the writ Of Habeas Corpus; nor
shall the citizen be punished with any
severer. penalty by h passage of Elk
Post Facto laws, than those which
obtain at the time of the commission
of the act; nor shall the blood of the
innocent be attained by the corrup-
ton of that of the ancestor; nor Snail
the money of the people-wrung from
them by taxatio1-a compulsory gift,
be paid from the Treasury except by
law; nor shall the President, Vice
President, or any civil officer of the
United States be removed from Office
except on impeachment for and con
viction of treason, bribery or other
high crimes and misdemeanors; nor
shall a citizen, except in cases of i'm
parchment, be tried for any crime ex-
cept by a jury of his peers; nor shall
such trial be removed for the purpose
of conviction or otherwise into any
other State than that wherein said
crime shall have been committed;
while the charge of treason against
the United States cannot be proven,
nor conviction had except On the tes-
timony of two witnesses to the same
overt act, or on confession il open
court.
The freedom OF speech and of the
press, the right of the people to peace
assemble, are recognized as es-
sentials to a free people; nor shall
the right to keep and bear arms be
infringed upon; nor shall the domestic
peace of the citizen be invaded by the
soldier in time of peace, quartered II
house without the consent of the
owner.
The right of the people to be secure
in their persons and houses against
unreasonable seizures and searches
hall not be violated; nor shall a per-
son he held to answer for a capital,
or otherwise infamous crime, except
the presentment of an indictment
of a grand jury; nor snail such per
son be twice put il jeopardy of life
or limb for the same offense; nor be
to be a witness against
himself: nor be deprived of life, liber-
or personal property without due
process of law; nor shall an accused
person be confined il jail AID denied
right of a speedy and public trial;
and the witnesses who accuse him
confront aim, and all the powers
of the court shall be his to produce
his own Witnesses; nor shall the CT
be deprived of liberty by the
exaction of excessive bail and exces-
sive fines, nor shall cruel and unusual
be allowed.
In the enumeration of these great
rights of civil liberty, 1 dare venture
to assert that they hav not been ex
celled in any civilized country Not
only do these provisions cover all the
claims of the citizen to CT
VII liberty, but the security of them
we can confidently claim is greater
in any country in the world.
In magnifying our own achieve
.ents, we mean no disparagement
If those of other countries. The his
DRY of our Mother Country aboulds
splendid memorials to civil liber-
y, in Magma Charta, the Petition of
Right, the Declarations nj Bills of
Right, Reform Bills. and the like, cree
ed by our English athers.
No step attained by them was ever
'etracted. What of liberty they Sc
cured, they retained and added to, and
It last they stand upon an elevation
with personal rights as secure with
muliments of liberty as i'm
,regnable as AVE ever been h pos
sessions of any people, save the in
of their free institutions who
ave founded the written constitutions
If these American States" And Lord
yhatham's statement is as true today
IS when it was uttered, that "the /
poorest man in his cottage bids de- :
to all forces of the Crown. 1t ;
nay be frail; its roof may shake; the +;
Wind may blow through it; the storms !
nay enter, but the King of England :
annot enter; all his forces dare not :
ross the threshold of the ruined tene- !
.
n Japan. Germany and in France, q
" enactments, there has been secur- Y
d to the citizen ample protection to
is life, to his liberty, to his property; r
nut these enactments are liable to be q
changed by the legislative depart G
nents of those countries; the power \
gives can take them away. Baron C
an eminent Japanese publ +
list, was recently twitted by an En- 1
lish LAWYER because the Japanese con- I
contained no provision for C
writ of nabeas corpus. He quick
Y replied. 1.-The reason is palpable; $
re never had a King John" I
The omissions in the constitutions C
f Germany, Japan and France of O
securities for civil liberty do not V
as to England; for. while her 4
constitution is unwritten on paper, it n
written in her institutions and II r
he hearts of her people: but STILL i:
nese constitutional guarantees for a
lvil liberty may be uprooted in Eng Ii
nd by an act of Parliament; while o