State of Illinois, Supreme Court, Third Grand Division, April Term, A. D. 1866

Download or read book State of Illinois, Supreme Court, Third Grand Division, April Term, A. D. 1866 written by Illinois Supreme Court and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from State of Illinois, Supreme Court, Third Grand Division, April Term, A. D. 1866: Madison Y. Johnson, Vs. J. Russel Jones, John C. Hawkins, Oliver P. Hopkins, Elihu B. Washburne and Bradner Smith; Appeal From Jo Daviess County; Abstract, Brief The present prosecution was instituted as a personal vindica tion of our conduct and actions, and as a means of asserting a principle dear to every American Freeman, and not for pecuniary gain. The contest was a long, and an unequal one, in which, not only governmental protection was thrown around the defendants, but political bias, partizan hatred, and malignant prejudice, growing out of the nature of the charges made, that were well calculated, under the frenzy that then existed, to overwhelm one. But con scious that in the end, if we but performed our duty, justice and right would prevail, and the mad fanaticism that swept over the land like a besom of destruction, would spend its fury, and leave at least, personal security under any form our government might assume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.