A Delegate, in order to wisely and intelligently, as well as promptly, discharge his duties, ought to be a lawyer, and well acquainted especially with the land-laws of the United States and other laws pertaining to Territories.
Jacobs emphasizes the importance of legal knowledge for a Delegate to effectively perform their duties.
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The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.
The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and the outward bulwark of the Pacific States.
However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.
Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.
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