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P.S. Taft is elected, "But he is a Unitarian!" So was John Adams and John Quincy Adams; and Jefferson was a deist; and Abraham Lincoln was a deist at the time of his election. The purity and piety of George III was unfeigned yet it did not save him from the folly of driving the American Colonies out of his realm, just as party politics from the pulpit and church press have been driving people out of our church, or preventing their coming into it. Non-partisan temperance has done all the prohibition work, and party prohibition has claimed all the honor. the horse-fly |
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2 on the double-tree--when the horses ran away with the wagon--said: "What a dust we raise!" "But Judge Taft decided against our church." Yes, when nagged to decide before he (with Judge Ricks' district work added to his own) could study the documents in the case; he fell back on his privilege to take the decision of the state courts. Of course Shuey claimed that decision as he had claimed Judge Elliott's performa decision in the Printing Establishing Case! Taft's opinion was highly in our favor. |
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3 It was a stupendous blunder to nag Judge Taft. It sunk all the labor and expense we had spent in the United States case. But instead of crying over spilt milk, I appealed the case; but Judge Lurton who dominated the appeal was against us from the first. I say theses things because I want somebody to see the truth in the situation. M. W. |