It may thus happen that a system of laws initiated by itinerant miners solely for the protection of their transient posessory interests, and carried through Congress at their behest by parliamentary roguery, may be permanently engrafted upon half the continent.
Julian warns that laws created for transient miners could become permanent fixtures affecting vast areas.
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