It might be that in old times judges sat on the American Bench who enjoyed world-wide reputation, but within the last two or three years the American tribunals have delivered their decisions under the pressure of fixed bayonets.
Blaine critiques the integrity of American judges during a tumultuous period in history.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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