stitutional interpretation these venerable provisions touch the life of humanity. Their historical, Christian significance means 'the unity of the human in the divine Fatherhood.' The noble lineage of these legal phrases is to be traced through all those proverbs and axioms of freedom and liberty which represent the coined wisdom and humanity of past ages. In whatever language they are written, by whatever tongue they are spoken, their true interpretation and mission is: 'Justice against violence; Law against anarchy;' 'Freedom against oppression.""-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Some Paracelsus of heathendom, 'covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages' and older far than jurisprudence, who had witnessed the mighty formations of the ages, and had come, in these latter days, to testify to the process of blood, through which the crude, coarse principle of inequality had been finally transmitted into that of pure equality in America, just as the mighty Meynour, conjured up by Bulwer in that marvel of creative genius, Zanoni, had watched the gradual change of gross metals into gold, the pearl, the diamond, and the ruby by the fire of the lamp of the Rosicrucians; some political seer, some Solon, familiar with all the precedents, principles, and charlatanry of despotism, would smile an icy smile when told by explanatory, excusatory, but selfaccusatory rudence, I have relaxed a little from a

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a rigid enforcement of the conv, in order to accommodate its strict

equality of right to the weakness of our humanity."Justice and Jurisprudence.

"These gross approaches to inequality are the short cuts, the by-roads, over which the loathsome phantom, Despotism, always makes stealthy advances upon the territory of freedom."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Is it a task too Herculean for the intellectual backwardness of the enlightened aristocracy of America to apprehend the truth, that upon the divine side of this. principle stand the Christian martyrs, the articles of Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, Washington, Sumner, Seward, Lincoln, those advance couriers of Equality, those agitators of the slavery question, the authors of civil rights, and an innumerable array of bright and shining lights? That by its human side stand Herod of Jewry, the Middle Ages of serfdo feudalism, slavery, the original compromise between the North and South embodied in the Constitution which acknowledged slavery, the Fugitive-Slave Law, and the slavery events which preceded secession and armed rebellion in America, the dark shadows of the spirit of the piratical Malay, the assassinating Thug, Booth, Czardom, Nihilism, the socialism of Chicago."—Justice and Jurisprudence.

"From prehistoric ages downward this divine principle has erected temples to the unknown Providence which worked by universal, inevitable law which altereth not; the law of a wise Providence, the unvaryingness of

whose rules of action is the same in the workings of nature as in the administration of governments-a law, the moral and political equilibrium of which can no more be disturbed with political impunity than a cyclone resulting from a disturbance of the atmospheric equilibrium can be controlled by the hand of man. It was this great law working in their hearts which piloted the Pilgrim Fathers to America. For the preservation of its primitive sacredness the organic union of the American state. was first formed. To the holy covenant for this 'rule of right the hand of Washington afterward set the crimson seal at Yorktown; for its overthrow Sumter's bombardment challenged the nation to civil war. After a career of matchless greatness, Grant, the intrepid hero, enthroned at Appomattox the natural justice of this immortal principle. The highest insignia of General Grant's glory as a Christian, warrior, statesman, and citizen are in the grandeur of the precedent, that illustration of the American principle of equality which this great conqueror of the New World afforded those of the Old-an example second to that of Washington alone, who, having also surrendered his sword to the state whose life it had saved, sat down at the foot of Peace and extended everywhere her olive branches."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Despotic power would clap her hands for joy at the eclipse of the star of liberty, and would view with delight the spectacle of the moping owls, whom its brightness had

"For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; these are the shifts and defenses that error uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her when she sleeps, for then she speaks not true as the old Proteus did, who spake oracles only when he was caught and bound, but then rather she turns herself into all shapes, except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time, as Micaiah did before Ahab, until she be adjured into her own likeness." -Milton.

"The people of England, delivered from a government which disgraced, oppressed, and betrayed them, fought under William as their forefathers had fought under Elizabeth, and after an almost uninterrupted struggle of more than twenty years, in which they were often abandoned by fortune, but never by their own constancy and magnanimity, they at length once more defeated those projects of guilty ambition, boundless aggrandizement, and universal domination which had a second time threatened to overwhelm the whole civilized world. They rescued Europe from being swallowed up in the gulf of extensive empire, which the experience of all times points out as the grave of civilization-where men are driven by violent. conquest and military oppression into lethargy and slavishness of heart-where, after their arts have perished with the mental vigor from which they spring, they are plunged by the combined power of effeminacy and ferocity into irreclaimable and hopeless barbarism."-Macintosh.

"But Jurisprudence, sat condoling by the death-bed of the old pro-slavery Constitution. She had beheld the awful rising and the dark setting of that blood-red orb of Despotism which lately challenged America to the Arbitrament of civil war for the maintenance of the principle of equality by due process of law.

"In the sight of the legions of rebellion, with their garments rolled in blood, they conceived the constitutional polity of equality of right armed with due process of law. They felt the deep significance of past events which might again repeat themselves in America, and they resolved upon this radical constitutional remedy.

"All the crises of the world were before the authors of these amendments. The confused noise of battle, its agony and sufferings, its sacrifices, were fully in view when they said, 'Let us adopt a policy that no device or jugglery of statecraft can destroy, annul, or evade. We will give a fresh charter to life, liberty, and property in America. We will elevate the principle of equality by due process of law upon a high pedestal. The privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizen shall not be tortured, corkscrewed, and serpentined. They shall not be diverted to the vile uses of despotism by any of its swindles, old or new. As Americans we must stand together; and our onward march shall be marked by the inspiring music of 'Equality of Rights by Due Process of Law.' Those who come after us shall out of the stones of this temple of liberty build no sepulcher for equality before the law.