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, while acknowledging Hunt’s outrageous illegality of action, but calls it “a mistake,” and speaks of him as “a superb and pure” man, the directors and the expounders of legislation have turn out to be the most dangerous enemies of the individuals. Nothing can contact him for illegality in office however a Congressional impeachment, which from a combination of circumstances is tough to result in. The Supreme Court of the United States say: “Another guarantee of freedom was broken when Milligan was denied a trial by jury. The good minds of the country have differed on the right interpretation to be given to various provisions of the Federal Constitution, and judicial choice has been typically invoked to settle their true meaning; but, till just lately, nobody ever doubted that the correct of trial by jury was fortified within the natural regulation in opposition to the ability of assault. It’s now assailed; but if ideas could be expressed in phrases, and language has any meaning, this right-one of the most useful in a free nation-is preserved to every one accused of crime, who just isn’t hooked up to the military, or navy, or militia in actual service. The VI. Amendment affirms that in ‘all criminal prosecutions the accused shall take pleasure in the precise to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury,’ language broad sufficient to embrace all persons and cases.”-Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wallace, p.

She insists that this proceeding of the judge was in derogation of her authorized right of trial by jury, and as by legislation she had no appeal in a criminal case from the decision of a single decide, that it’s the duty, as it’s in the power, of Congress to remit the superb which she has been ordered to pay with the prices. Speaking of women, jogs my memory that a report will quickly be made by the Judiciary Committee upon the petition of Susan B. Anthony for a remission of her wonderful for voting in the final Presidential marketing campaign for General Grant and Henry Wilson. This simply involves a legal query, and one which the Judiciary Committee might be fairly prone to resolve in Susan’s favor as she has each law and precedent on her aspect. The pals of lady’s suffrage confidently anticipate a favorable report upon this topic from the committee. They do not concede Miss Anthony to have been a regulation-breaker as the Albany Law Journal, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, and different associates of Judge Hunt concede her to have been. If the judiciary of the country is so far powerful, and thus far irresponsible as to warp the regulation in favor of its own prejudices, even to the extent of preventing trial by jury, as Judge Hunt is conceded to have finished, then our judiciary and never our criminals is our dangerous class.

Because Judge Hunt defied the law; as a result of the editor of the Albany Law Journal is inexcusably ignorant of, or recklessly indifferent to the law, it doesn’t observe that Miss Anthony belongs to that class, or must be judged by their corrupt customary. That the United States District Attorney engaged in the prosecution should degrade the dignity of the regulation by the query (to evaluate Selden) “if it was conceded that on the day of election Miss Anthony was a girl?” to which the reply was, “Yes, now and ever coronary heart and soul a woman”; that Judge Hunt should ask her “if she voted as a feminine”? Miss Anthony has tried each of “the methods of reform men use,” and for doing the final was arrested, tried, fined, and all however imprisoned. Historically, ladies have been less involved within the production and consumption of erotica basically and visual pornography particularly than have males. He might as nicely have said in so many words, “This country and its authorities is for the benefit of us males alone; you women are half and parcel of our property; if you aren’t suited with all issues as we repair them for you, then get out from our country.” This is the tenor of what Mr. Albany Law Journal editor says.

Pray, Mr. Albany Law Journal, what are “the strategies of reform that males use,” when they’re dissatisfied with “our legal guidelines,” solely to speak towards such legal guidelines, and to vote for men to make better ones? The case of the inspectors was not handled in this fashion-however then they were males. Then you definately need to provide sleep time the significance in your schedule that other important bodily capabilities require. Aryandes, satrap of Egypt, is claimed by Herodotus to have been punished by Darius for coining cash of equal fineness with that of the king in Persia: thus coinage had then begun in Egypt. You, with all your legal lore, have ultimately managed to see, in a yr and a month, what the veriest simple woman within the land, all uneducated as girls are within the technicalities of the law, had no issue of seeing in an hour. With that lack of self-respect which seems to inhere in all opponents of lady suffrage, that editor, along with all else, tries to indulge in a little bit facetiousness over the threadbare witticisms that Miss Anthony “was a lady when she voted.” Coming down by way of the lips of Judge Hunt and the United States District Attorney of the prosecution, it reaches the legislation editor in time for him to say that “on the trial of Miss Anthony she conceded that on the day of election she was a girl,” and in a parenthesis (“we all know that she usually was a woman, and are not surprised to learn that she was on election day.”) What a tremendous platitude this is to fall from the lips of a instructor of regulation.