The New-Orleans Book (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE COURT, A TEMPLE OF JUSTICE. BY RANDALL HUNT, ESQ. Educated under the wise and liberal institutions of a Republic of laws, I look upon the place in which I stand as a Temple of Justice?not as a theatre for a vain display of powers of disputation in personal rivalry. I regard this Court, not as a weak assembly of individuals, who can be easily operated upon and misled by the dictatorial spirit and arrogant airs of certain orators, who, forgetting that they are mere advocates, foolishly imagine themselves to be, and would make others believe them to be the true and only oracles of the law; but as an august tribunal, composed of men of good sense, firmness, integrity, and learning; who, uninfluenced by any passion or prejudice, examine the questions properly submitted to them, in a calm and patient spirit of investigation, and after a full and impartial consideration, decide upon them, agreeably to the principles of law and justice. True liberty is a practical and substantial blessing. Its existence and its enjoyment depend upon principles which are equally important and should be equally dear to every man. These principles are founded in the laws, and are recognized, protected and enforced under every social condition and civilized form of government. They are the safeguards and guarantees of the most invaluable personal rights, of personal security, personal liberty and the right of private property. In the case now about to be submitted, the last only of these rights is assailed. But this does not diminish the magnitude or interest of the cause itself; for it would be vain to speak of any other right, if it be once authoritatively proclaimed, that the acquisitions of labor shall no longer stimulate, cheer, comfort, and enrich industry, but shall be the prize or rat...