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...Petty Treason" (Cont...
...clergy as based originally on "trivial grounds." Secondly the Premier was stated to have used his powers of office as "a dominating and aggressive force, with a manner calculated to cause irritation and annoyance." Finally the Royal Commission said that Lord Strickland had committed an act almost smacking of treason to the Realm. Sent by his King-Emperor to guide and govern an excitable Latin race "extremely loyal to Great Britain" (according to the Royal Commission) he instead divided the Maltese "into very embittered cliques" and deliberately aroused "personal animosities...
...Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted to set aside the penalties meted out in our gravest criminal cases by our highest law tribunal. . . . Parole issuance would be unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society...
...playwright has drawn considerably on what actually happened to Vice President Andrew Johnson for his subsequent material. Lincoln is villainously impeached, tried for treason. In a genuinely exciting last act, he defends himself before the bar of the Senate in a trial conducted by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, whose judicial behavior is a good shade in favor of Lincoln. It takes 19 votes to save the President, and your scalp is in deed a tough one if it fails to tingle when the deciding vote is about to be cast. High praise goes to Playwright Good man, whose piece...
...vanguard of the petition-circulators last week were The Christian Century and The Living Church. Not only did they print the declaration, but both analyzed the case, gave much space to emphasizing its significance. Editorialized The Living Church: "If THIS BE TREASON. . . . We had supposed that it was generally recognized that it is not only our right but our duty to disobey a law which we deem to be immoral and contrary to God's will-and to take the consequences. . . .' Said The Christian Century: "Our readers ... are listening to the almost unanimous voice of the Christian press...