It has heretofore been the boast of this country that liberty regulated by law was the principle which governed its citizens. The most perfect freedom to every man in every relation of life -- freedom of person, of speech and in the pursuit of happiness, has been our glory, while the universally upheld governance of law has been the safety both of ourselves and of our liberty. Barbarism throws us forward into despotism. Every grievance can here be remedied; every wrong can here be righted by law, which has its power in the will of the people and "its fountain in the bosom of God." It will be a dark day for the liberties, for its honour, its greatness, its power, its glory, when this excrescence of despotism fastens itself upon our free institutions and society. Every man who prides himself must use his determined efforts to drive back this black and deadly tide of human depravity.