The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-22

sideration. The guarantee Of TRIAL
by ones peers" was not the institu-
ton of a trial by jury. which was un-
known In England for nearly a ZEN
tury and a half thereafter. but was q
stipulation Of exactly the opposite ma
ture, and guaranteed ii special ex-
emption for the nobility from the
jurisdiction of the Kings Courts Of
oarons and knights who were no TO
De trled Toy the Kings judges. like the
common people, but they were to be
tried always by men of their own ex-
! eluslVe order. that by their peers.
Anu the KING judges were not the
peers Tor harons and knights. And
finally the contract for the law ef
the land was not as some coprts
have been In the habit IF saving the
egula procedure of the courts but
by the law OF the land the baron
meant a return to the ancient
of trial which Henry IL had abolished
THAT trial by battle. compnrxation
and ordeal. If eur Supreme Court ar
Washington in the days since the war
mad considered this matter in the true
hight shed on it by lawyers convers-
ant with the phrases and thought OF
the times when Magma Carta was
adopted, the 18th Amendment which
was adopted for the protection of the
negro could not have been extended
into an immunity for the protection
OF great a~Ssregations of capital by
the construction placed upon the
words law of the land" and due
process of law"
Jefferson's Great Work.
The true origin of human liberty
is to be fOund only in the American
Declaration of pendence, penned
by the hand which established this
University and he but there express
ed the thoughts of freedom and hber-
ty n human rights which he had
breathed in with his native air anC
which were the thoughts of the grea1
men with whom he associa ted and o1
the people at large among whom h
lived.
No small part of the element of tn,
greatness of Virginia has come there
fore from the intense progressivenes
of her people which had been illus
trated in their daily lives, espresso,
in her legislation and which Wa
given to the world at Philadelphia.
1t was not altogether so much il
accordance with we'll settled publ
2 sentiment hat Jefferson and Henri
, and the men of THEN day abolishe,
{ the system of primogeniture and en-
. tails which had given a~ristocracy it
legal basis, nor that they abolishe
. the union of church and state an
L IGHU0feU lHCICGIOIN ara unto 20
: the things that were Gods and unit
Caesar the things that were Caesars.
Mr.. Jefferson and the other leader
were fully aware that without rel
Sious freedom there could be no civ
S liberty. He joined his authorship {
h the Virginia statute for religious FREE
n dom with the authorship of the gre.
Declaration, and the founding of tn
great University as his claims to tf
gratitude of his own age and all fl
q ture times.
Your State has had many advan
ages bestowed on it by nature az
by the course of events. The highe
and truest compliment hat can
paid you is that as a State and a pc,
pie you have been always equal
e your opportunities. You great n;
4 tural advantages without the mob
n qualities Of your people would n
have brought you greatness for Il
Indians had many of those advantag
before you. Your intense %convictit
=, Of the right of a people to gove1
~ themselves found highest expressit
=, in civil life, in the u~tterances
Henry and OF Jefferson and in Il
e field of action by Washington and L
~ and Jackson. You have had u
% counted other noble sons who
names will be an ever living remin
~ er to your people in all the years tn
=, are to come .
Virginians, your past at least is S
cure. Nor chance, nor the hand
&c mar nor time, nor fate itself, c;
"A change that. Your future is VIII
"A the young men of your State sh;
af choose to make it.
WAP INEi UEMCE It'll