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Show Ralph Waldo E1nedon. but the mom •nt he l ' ca rried out of the bound:-; of l\Ia sachu.' ctts, the United State:::, it is notoriou:::, a!Jord no protect ion at all; the Government, the .Judg s, are an Cll\ enomed party, aml give such protection a. they give in Utah to hone 't citizens, or in Kansa, ; . uch protect ion as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, wh ·n he wa imple enough to mi ·take the formal instructions ot' his Go\·emment for the ir real meaning. (A pplanse.) The State Judges f' ·~u· colli;-;ion between their two all<·giances; but there nrc w o r~c evi l · than co lli~ion; namely, the doing ~ ub ~ tantial inju:-;tir '. A good man will see that the usc of a J mlgc is to secu re good government, and where the ci ti zen's weal is impe rilled by abtL c of' the Federal power, to usc that arm whieh can seeurc it, viz., the locnl government. Ilnd that been done on ce rtain calami tous occasions, we should not have ~ en the honor of i\Inssnchusctts trailed in the dn::;t, stain ed to all age. , once n1Hl again, by the ill-tim ed formali:-;m of' a verwrablc lkneh. J{' Judge ' cannot find law enough to maintain the ~ove re i gnty of the State, and to protect th life anc1 freedom of e\·ery inhabitant not a criminal, it i. idl ' to compliment them as lea rned aml YCnerable. \Vhat avails their learning or veiH'ration? At a pinch, thry are of no more u. e than idiot~. Af'u•r th' mi::.C'Itance they wring their lmnd~, but they had better never ha\'c been born. A VPrmont Ju<lgc IIntchinson, who hn, the De('lamtion of IndrpcrHlcnce in hi ' heart, a \Visco n ~ in ~J u<l(rp, who knows n that laws are for the protection of' citizens again:-,t kidnappt>r , i::; worth a roun ltou.-e full of lawyers so idolatrow of fonna ' to let go the · uiJ~tance. Is any man in .l\Ias~a.chn s('tt · o simple as to belic\'e that when a Unit d tate Court in Virginia, now, in it ' pres nt reign of terror, scnus to Connecticut, or New York, or l\fn:;~achu ·ctt::., for a witn e~::;, it wnnts him for a witness? No; it wants him for a party; iL wants him for meat to sl~mghtet· and cat. And your lwbras corpus i:<, in any way in which it ha been, or, I fear, i ' likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes a way his right Ralph Waldo E1nerfon. 71 r eliance on himself, and the nnturnl as:-;i;-;f~lnc·<' of hi:=:; friends and fellow-citizens, by ofT{.• rirw him a form whi,.J 1 • . • f' o • " 1.-. a pt <'<'<' 0 paper. But I am UC'ta.ininrr the mcctinrr or1 lll"lt 1 · 1 o n " ('1'~ W II(' 1 otltcr:; understand L> •ttcr. I hotJC the11 tlt"t 1 ' 11 "1 · · t · ., ' •~ n( llltnt. CI'JJlO' relief to. John Drown's fiuniiy, we hall remember all thos~ whom Ill~ fittc concerns, all who arc in sympathy with ltirn, and ~ot forget to aid him in the best way, by securing fi·ce<lom and mdcpen<.lcncc in l\fassachusctts. |