We’ll, nonetheless, enable to this editor one grain of sense, as he acknowledges the harmful energy in the arms of judges of the United States Circuit Court, a power they possess outside of proper, a energy by which one among them can, as did Judge Ward Hunt in Miss Anthony’s case, transcend his authorized rights, to warp and bend constitutional guarantees to his personal ends, and having so completed that there isn’t a legal appeal from his unwarrantable decision. With such judges as Hunt, who has attempted to crush out the trial by jury, and make of the jury merely an ornamental tail to his judicial kite; with such teachers because the Albany Law Journal, which, whereas acknowledging Hunt’s outrageous illegality of motion, yet calls it “a mistake,” and speaks of him as “a very good and pure” man, the administrators and the expounders of law have turn into the most dangerous enemies of the folks. People of unsullied reputation will nonetheless be capable to fight over good jobs as maids, butlers, and gardeners.
Now, subsequently, be it recognized, that I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, divers different good and enough reasons me thereunto transferring, do hereby grant to the stated Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, a full and unconditional pardon. Amendments to the nationwide Constitution overrode and destroyed all these components of State constitutions which have been, or are actually, by expression contrary to their provisions, and they believe that the elemental proper of citizens of the United States is the precise to take part in making the laws which shall govern them; the exercise of this right to be regulated (not prevented) by States. This Law Journal, which professes to guide the authorized craft of the Empire State within the devious ways of legal justice, has however now, thirteen months after its date, a evaluate of Miss Anthony’s celebrated trial, as carried out by Judge Ward Hunt.
We commend these remarks to the consideration of Judge Hunt and the editor of the Albany Law Journal. Therefore he gagged the jury and ordered the verdict of responsible entered-a verdict which, as this editor acknowledges, was never rendered. In regard to that editor’s expressed want that the case of Miss Anthony should have gone to the jury, as they would have brought in a verdict of guilty, I will inform him that one of those jurymen told me his verdict would have been “not responsible,” had he been allowed by Judge Hunt to precise his opinions, “nor would he have been alone.” This was simply what Hunt knew and feared and was decided should not happen. Miss Anthony claims her conviction was unconstitutional beneath the legislation, the decide having refused her the correct of trial by jury in that he directed the jury to herald a verdict of guilty. We who know Miss Anthony effectively, and who believe along with her, know that, on the contrary, she intended to do an act which is protected by the law, instead of breaking regulation; she was performing below authority of the legislation. It was a clear case of a decision by a decide in excess of his authority, and acting with out warrant of regulation.
If the matter belongs exclusively to the States, then the United States have nothing to do with it, and clearly have no right to interfere and punish an individual for the (supposed) violation of a State legislation. If previous Greece might banish her finest citizen, Aristides, just because he was her most just one, Miss Anthony and myself definitely ought to contemplate it a matter of self-gratulation that we’re deemed match for banishment due to our demand for justice; justice not merely for ourselves, but for one-half the nation. No woman had finger or tongue within the matter. Deprive a man or girl of that, and of what use is your habeas corpus act, of what use your regulation of penalties or acquittal? He holds the dearest rights of American residents at pleasure in his palms, and that is regulation and justice in the United States. Right of trial by jury holds all different legal rights within its grasp.