Justice

He is not entitled to dictate the rule by which his claim is to be adjusted.

I fail to appreciate the equities which entitle this claimant to further hearing.

I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.

If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of General Ward should not be allowed $50 a month.

I am unable to see how his death can be in any way attributed to his military service or his widow be justly pensioned therefor.

I am satisfied that this was a just conclusion.

I do not see how the relief proposed can be granted in this case without an unjustifiable departure from the rules under which applications for pension should be determined.

I can see no fairness or justice to the Government in such a proposition.

I believe the rejection of this claim was right and just upon its merits.

The proposed legislation would, in my opinion, result in a discrimination in favor of this claimant unfair and unjust toward thousands of poor widows who are equally entitled to our sympathy and benevolence.

I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honorable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed question to which it relates.

It is plain that the exaction of more than this is indefensible extortion and a culpable betrayal of American fairness and justice.

He seems upon the facts presented to be justly entitled to it.

Peace with all nations has been maintained unbroken, domestic tranquillity has prevailed, and the institutions of liberty and justice which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers established remain the glory and defense of their children.

I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th instant.

Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made.

I believe he is a brave and able man, and I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secretary of War as withholding from him.

By fair construction persons within these sections are not to be punished without regular trials in duly constituted courts.