Orange Jacobs: “If the will of the majority is defeated in this manner, popular government will not long survive.”

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.

The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.

Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.