Pioneer and backwoodsman though he was, and, as we shall see, true to his class and section, he yet acquired more balanced ideas of liberty, better manners, and finer if not higher views of life than the crude, rough individualists who inhabited the back country.
Beveridge reflects on the complex character of Thomas Marshall, highlighting his balanced views on liberty despite his backwoodsman origins.
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On this, the only vital and enduring question involved, Marshall's views were clear and unshakable.
But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.
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