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Page 8
... courts , and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice . This disposi- tion is awfully fearful in any community ; and that it now exists in ours , though grating to our feelings to admit , it would be a violation ...
... courts , and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice . This disposi- tion is awfully fearful in any community ; and that it now exists in ours , though grating to our feelings to admit , it would be a violation ...
Page 13
... courts of justice . And , in short , let it become the political religion of the nation ; and let the old and the young , the rich and the poor , the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and condi- tions , sacrifice ...
... courts of justice . And , in short , let it become the political religion of the nation ; and let the old and the young , the rich and the poor , the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and condi- tions , sacrifice ...
Page 31
... court her ? Was it because you thought she deserved it , and that you had given her reason to expect it ? What earthly consideration would you take to find her scout- ing and despising you , and giving herself up to another ? But of ...
... court her ? Was it because you thought she deserved it , and that you had given her reason to expect it ? What earthly consideration would you take to find her scout- ing and despising you , and giving herself up to another ? But of ...
Page 51
... court . I expect to make one within a week or two , in which I hope to succeed well enough to wish you to see it . It is very pleasant to learn from you that there are some who desire that I should be reëlected . I most heartily thank ...
... court . I expect to make one within a week or two , in which I hope to succeed well enough to wish you to see it . It is very pleasant to learn from you that there are some who desire that I should be reëlected . I most heartily thank ...
Page 69
... court when you have leisure , rather than in court when you have not . Ex- temporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated . It is the lawyer's avenue to the public . However able and faithful he may be in other respects ...
... court when you have leisure , rather than in court when you have not . Ex- temporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated . It is the lawyer's avenue to the public . However able and faithful he may be in other respects ...
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