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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yankee Productions. (search)
at there were certain great principles which the Revolution in England of 1688, and our ever- glorious Revolution of 1776, had canonized and rendered sacred; but we live to see the day when those principles are derided and trampled upon.--In vain does the victim of oppression demand, in the language of our bill of rights, and of the Constitution, a fair and impartial trial. In vain that he invokes the principles of Magna Charta, which are as dear to him as they were to any lordly baron at Runnymede, or any Englishman since. In vain that he appeals to the judges and the courts. The venerable Chief Justice, in his attempt to restore the reign of the law and the Constitution, is mocked at, and his authority despised. A Provost Marshal usurps the place of the Judge, and some unfledged General announces an irreversible decree of banishment or imprisonment. Equally vain that the citizen claims his house to be his castle — armed men, without authority of law, arouse him from his slumber