Excerpt from Personal Liberty and Martial Law: A Review of Some Pamphlets of the Day
Dear Montgomery, - I think it much to your honor that you were the first in Philadelphia to take the field in defence of Habeas Corpus, against the extraordinary constitutional assaults that have been made upon it. Many have since drawn their swords in its defence, but I have seen no blade more polished or more effective than your own. I have extended my remarks to the subject of martial law. You and I agreed in thinking that our distinguished fellow townsman, whom Lord John Russel truly spoke of in the House of Lords, as the head of the bar in America, and who he said had argued his case "with much ingenuity;" had made as great a mistake in assuming that the rightful suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus in America deprived the citizen of all other constitutional guaranties of freedom, as he had in arguing, that the right to suspend the privilege of the writ belonged to the Executive. The subject is, perhaps, already burdened with better criticism than mine, but in these days of our country"s calamity, when the despotic hand is abroad and the liberty of the press as well as the writ of Habeas Corpus is suspended; it may not be unbecoming in an humble citizen to give token of the faith that is in him.
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