Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, Ll.D. : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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He had grave and difficult official responsibilities laid upon him, besides those which ordinarily belong to the office of President. He was President of a Government of only expressly granted powers under a written Constitution. To exercise any other jiowers would be usurpation. No motive of patriotism could rescue the acts from a 420 Memoir of Eoger B. Taney. breacli of the Constitution. The very whisperings of one's heart, placed in such circumstances, are likely to be deceitful. For it may ...well be doubted, whether the worst of usurpers and tyrants do not believe that they are moved only by a regard to the welfare of their country. Even the Earl of Strafford, on his trial for treason, defended his usurpations, on the ground that they were done for the welfare of the people. " Salus populi," said he, " suprema lex ; nay, in cases of ex- tremity, even above acts of Parliament." President Lincoln and his Cabinet were from the first in great alarm, and at once began to lean for sup- port on the military arm of Lieutenant-General Scott.
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