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We have, in time of our greatest need, lost one of our greatest statesmen and purest patriots.
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gutenberg.orgOrange Jacobs: “We have, in time of our greatest need, lost one of our greatest statesmen and purest patriots.”
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In this statement, Jacobs expresses the profound loss felt by the nation after the assassination of a key political figure.
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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.
Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.
The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.
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