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... Justice H. H. Chalmers , of the Supreme Court , Gen- eral T. J. Wharton , and Attorney General T. C. Catchings , who were appointed , respectively , by the Governor , the Chief Justice , and the author , as an advisory committee on the ...
... Justice H. H. Chalmers , of the Supreme Court , Gen- eral T. J. Wharton , and Attorney General T. C. Catchings , who were appointed , respectively , by the Governor , the Chief Justice , and the author , as an advisory committee on the ...
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... justice of the common pleas or justice of the peace in the county in which the defendant might reside ; who , upon complaint , should issue his capias , or summons , if the defend- ant was a freeholder , requiring the parties to appear ...
... justice of the common pleas or justice of the peace in the county in which the defendant might reside ; who , upon complaint , should issue his capias , or summons , if the defend- ant was a freeholder , requiring the parties to appear ...
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James Daniel Lynch. ceeded fifty dollars ; and the jurisdiction of the justice courts was extended to that amount . This was the character and constitution of the Territorial courts in 1817 , when the State Government was inaugurated ...
James Daniel Lynch. ceeded fifty dollars ; and the jurisdiction of the justice courts was extended to that amount . This was the character and constitution of the Territorial courts in 1817 , when the State Government was inaugurated ...
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... public sentiment , and it is incumbent on us to animate and cherish a spirit of re- sistance to foreign encroachments among our constituents , by urging the justice of our cause , and the necessity 36 BENCH AND BAR OF MISSISSIPPI .
... public sentiment , and it is incumbent on us to animate and cherish a spirit of re- sistance to foreign encroachments among our constituents , by urging the justice of our cause , and the necessity 36 BENCH AND BAR OF MISSISSIPPI .
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James Daniel Lynch. urging the justice of our cause , and the necessity of their vig- orous co - operation in support of the constituted authorities , who are responsible to them for the faithful execution of the high and important ...
James Daniel Lynch. urging the justice of our cause , and the necessity of their vig- orous co - operation in support of the constituted authorities , who are responsible to them for the faithful execution of the high and important ...
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Page 436 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 242 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart...
Page 436 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 410 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States...
Page 308 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Page 305 - Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here, on the elementary principles of society, has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither...
Page 419 - The right of a citizen of one state to pass through, or to reside in any other state, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise...
Page 410 - The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation, and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily applicable to the government created by the instrument.
Page 41 - ... power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.
Page 231 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...