Life of Abraham Lincoln : Sixteenth President of the United States

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They proceed to re- solve, ' that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commo- tion.* "And, apparently to demonstrate the proposition, the resolutions p"oceed : ' They were secured substantially to tho THE TIDE TURNED. 227 Letter to Coming. No Arrests for Treaflon English people after years of protracted civil war, and were adopted into our Constitution at the close of the Revol...ution.
Would not the demonstration have been better if it could have been truly said that these safeguards had been adopted and applied during the civil wars and during our Revolution, in- stead of after the one and at the close of the other ? I, too, am devotedly for them after civil war, and before civil war, and at all times, ' except when, in cases of rebellion or inva- sion, the public safety may require' their suspension. The resolutions proceed to tell us that these safeguards ' have stood the test of seventy-six years of trial, under our repub- lican system, under circumstances which show that, while they constitute the foundation of all free government, they are the elements of the enduring stability of the Repub- lic' No one denies that they have so stood the test up to the beginning of the present rebellion, if we except a certain oc- currence at New Orleans ; nor does any one question that they will stand the same test much longer after the rebellioa closes.


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