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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Valley of Virginia . (search)
A land of liberty and law.
--Great Britain certainly is better entitled to this appellation than the U. S. even was at the best period of its existence.
It is true that we never had a king, nor a hereditary aristocracy, but the sovereign of England is a mere weathercock upon the church spire, for ornament rather than use, an h all the talk about liberty and equality in the United States, there was less of either, and certainly a vast inferiority in the administration of justice, to Great Britain.
It is true social equality in England is unknown, and so it is everywhere, and now here more than it is in the Union, where an upstart money aristocracy, hav y treated the poor with a degree of brutality and tyranny unparalleled in any part of the world.
But equality in the administration of justice is a reality in Great Britain, as it never was in the United States.
Here money could always save a ruffian from the consequences of his crime; there the proudest nobleman and the wealthie