Excerpt from Inaugural Address, Delivered Before the Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sidney College, January 10th, 1849
On this very day, two hundred years ago, Charles, the first Stuart that mounted the English throne, was arraigned before the high Court of Justice, assembled in Westminster Hall, as a "Tyrant, a Traitor and a Murderer," in the name, and by the authority of the Commons of England, and all the good people of the realm: a scene which even Hume, the apologist, and worshipper of arbitrary power, is forced to acknowledge, "corresponded to the greatest conception that is suggested in the annals of human-kind - the delegates of a great people, sitting in judgment on their supreme magistrate, and trying him for his misgovernment and breach of trust."
The names of Hampden and of Sidney are inseparably connected with the fate of Charles, and have been rendered forever memorable by their participation in that prolonged and eventful conflict, which was waged by the emancipated intelligence and piety of England, against a despotic Prince - an ambitious and fanatic clergy - a degenerate aristocracy and an obsequious Court; which moving on, alike amidst disaster and success, with ever deeper feeling, and clearer consciousness of its own inward principles, and ultimate results, at last united all the scattered elements of truth and freedom in one embodied phalanx against their combined antagonists, and consecrated for all coming generations, amidst the blood of heroes and of martyrs, that glorious principle, the basis of all American and all English freedom, the death-knell of all tyranny, civil and ecclesiastic, that "under God - the origin of all legitimate authority, is the will of The People."
About twelve years before, on the 1st of May, 1637, eight vessels were seen at anchor in the Thames, just ready to embark with their freight of emigrants for North America.
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