He ought to have determined that the existing settlement of landed property should be inviolable; and he ought to have announced that determination in such a manner as effectually to quiet the anxiety of the new proprietors, and to extinguish any wild hopes which the old proprietors might entertain.

Whether, in the great transfer of estates, injustice had or had not been committed, was immaterial.

That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfix the foundations of society.

There must be a time of limitation to all rights.

After thirty-five years of actual possession, after twenty-five years of possession solemnly guaranteed by statute, after innumerable leases and releases, mortgages and devises, it was too late to search for flaws in titles.