Show what tribunals have done for myself let me say that I 1 bold judges judg es and especially the supreme coarl co arl in much respect but I 1 am too familiar with the history of judicial proceedings dings to regard them with any super superstitious ious reverence judges 0 are but men and in all ages hav have e shown a full fall share of human frailty alas the worst wora crimes of history have been perpetrated pet rated under their sanction the blood of martyrs and of patriots crying from the iba ground surn summons alons them to judgment it was a judicial tribunal which condemned socrates to drink the filial hemlock demlo k and which pushed the saviour barefoot over the pavements of jerusalem bending beneath neath his cross it was a judicial tribunal which against the testimony and entreaty entre entreaties ati es of her father surrendered the fair virginia Vir girlia as a slave which arrested the teachings of the great apostle to the gentiles and sent him in bonds from judica to rome which in the name of the old religion I 1 persecuted the saints and fat fathers hers of the christian church and adjudged them to a martyr s death in all its most dreadful forms and afterward aften vard in the name of the new religion enforced the tortures of the inquisition amid the shrieks and agonies of the vie vic urn tim while it compelled galileo to declare in solemn denial of the great truth he had disclosed that the earth did not move around the sun it was a judicial tribunal which in france during the long reign of her monarchs lent itself to be the instrument of every tyranny tv ranny as during the brief reign of terror it did not hesitate to stand forth the unpitying accessory to the unpitying guillotine aye it was a judicial tribunal in england surrounded by bv all forms of law which sanctioned every every despotic caprice of henry VIII from the unjust divorce of his queen to the beheading of sir thomas morg mor which lighted the fires of persecution that glowed at oxford and Smitha smithfield eld over the cinders of latimer La limer ridley and john rogers which after elaborate argument upheld the fatal tyranny myrann v of ship money agai against st tha patriot resistance resi stence of hamlin den which in defiance of justice and humanity sent sidney and russell rusell to the block which persistently enforced the laws of conformity that our puritan fathers persistently refused to obey and afterward with kith jeffreys on the bench crimsoned crim the pages of english history with mae massacre sacre and murder even with the blood of innocent women aye it was a judicial tribunal in obrown our own country surrounded by all forms of lay law which hung huna witches at salem which afflic affirmed mea the constitutionality of the stamp act which it admonished jurors and people to lo obey and which now in our day lends its sanction to the unutterable atrocity of the fui fugitive tive slave act charles sumner before a republican convention in massachusetts these little history studies should make mighty interesting inte reslin for those who believe the supreme court infallible arid and who therefore sustain its decision on the income income tax ED |