Orange Jacobs: “Their inquiry was not, what was the reason of the thing, but what had some Court said?”

Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.

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

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.