Orange Jacobs: “I have opposed this network of tracks because instead of being an aid to travel and commerce, it is an actual…”

Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.

In the onward sweep of development and civilization, and in the largeness of population, individuality becomes fused in the general mass, and loses its salient characteristics.

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.