[Quoting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Story] “The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred. At least no court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming that the power to violate and disregard them..."

The New Orleans Democrat, New Orleans Mayor Edward Pilsbury, [Quoting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Story] “The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred. At least no court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming that the power to violate and disregard them, a power so repugnant to the common principles of justice and civil liberty, lurked under any general grant of legislative authority . . . The people ought not to be presumed to part with rights so vital to their security and well being.” [A MUST READ ARTICLE], Jan. 18, 1876