Page:The Green Bag (1889–1914), Volume 15.pdf/263

 Rh

226

removed by the express declaration of the President. In the work of the Supreme Court he dis tinguished himself more particularly in the solution of the difficult problems of inter national law and prize growing out of the Civil War. His most conspicuous efforts in

from the Union, the chief justice exhaust ively reviewed the nature of our govern ment. His conclusion was as follows: "The union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred princi-

•

.,

Copyright by Hampton L. Carson.

the domain of constitutional law were Texas v. White and the Legal Tender cases, Hep burn v. Griswold and Knox v. Lee. In the former, where a claim by the State of Texas to certain United States bonds was met by the contention that the State had withdrawn

Court**)/ of P. W. Ziefltr and Company.

pies, similar interests and geographical rela tions. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these the Union was solemnly declared 'to be per