Albert Beveridge: “It will be an empire of men, and not of laws.”

But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.

My God! what a situation has our country reached.