As for the question of the right of taxation, he exclaimed, "It is less than nothing in my consideration....

My consideration is narrow, confined, and wholly limited to the policy of the question.

I do not examine whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of Government....

_The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy._ It is not what a lawyer tells me I _may_ do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I _ought_ to do.

I am not determining a point of law; I am restoring tranquillity, and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them." "I am not here going into the distinctions of rights," he cries, "not attempting to mark their boundaries.