If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, w…

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that t…

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, -- the most sublime & benevolent, but…

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequen…

The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.