Argument in the Railroad Conspiracy Case: Entitled The People of Michigan Vs. Abel F. Fitch and OthersDuncklee, Wales & Company, 1851 - 132 pages |
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Page 62 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod; ' The stamp of fate and sanction of the god: High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 2 - ... together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
Page 13 - American freemen at the glorious event which has conquered time and distance, and bound them by nearer chords to older homes and sister States. A detestable monopoly! These railroads, built by united energies and capital, are the great instruments in the hand of God to hasten onward the glorious mission of religion and civilization. Already is our Central Road stretching forth its hands, and giving assurance that soon shall its iron track reach across the neighboring Provinces from Detroit to Niagara;...
Page 12 - The state needed engines, cars, depots— every material to prosecute or sustain with energy or profit this important work; but its credit was gone and it was immersed in debt. Our population was thinly scattered across the entire breadth of the peninsula. Engines dragged slowly and heavily through the dense forests. Our city numbered but twelve thousand people; our state was destitute of wealth; our farmers destitute of markets; our laborers destitute of employment; and so far as the...
Page 16 - ... into. • A man who is capable of so infamous a calling as that of a spy, is not very much to be relied upon. He can have no great ties of honour, or checks of conscience, to restrain him in those covert evidences, where the person accused has no opportunity of vindicating himself.
Page 13 - ... dense forests it shines over fertile fields and rich, luxuriant harvests, and the rivers of our state, which once ran with wasteful speed to the bosom of the lakes, turn the machinery which renders our rich products available. With them, capital made its home...
Page 21 - I saw and felt, and sympathized with you, in the shudder which marked your feelings as that and kindred sentences fell upon your astonished ears. I forgot I was here, and was carried for a moment to some heated tribune of Paris, where some spirit of fierceness was maddening the populace and stirring up France to again '•Get drunk with blood to vomit crime '•' Ah ! gentlemen, there is a worse evil abroad through this land, than the overshadowing power of Corporations. There are isms of dreadful...
Page 22 - ... view and beneath its ample folds. It protects beauty and virtue, punishes crime and wickedness, and vindicates right. Honor and life, and liberty and property, the wide world over, are its high objects. Stern, yet kind; pure, yet pitying; steadfast, immutable and just — it is the attribute of God on earth. It proceeds from His bosom and encircles the world with its care and power and blessings. All honor and praise to those who administer it in purity and who reverence its high behests.
Page 13 - Capital made its home amongst us; our credit was restored; hope and energy sprung from their lethargic sleep; labor clapped her glad hands and shouted for joy; and Michigan bent for the moment, like a sapling by the fierceness of a passing tempest, relieved from the debts and burthens, rose erect, and in her youthful strength, stood proudly up among her sister States.
Page 13 - State passed 26,000 tons over the road; in 1850 the company passed 134,000 tons; created markets for our products, snatched the tide of passing emigration from the hands of a steamboat monopoly, hostile to Michigan, and threw it into the heart of our State, until now, where heaven's light was once shut out by dense...