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They may occur in practice ; and if the power should be sanctioned and estab- lished by the decision of this court, the day may arrive when it will be resorted to for the most dangerous purposes. The time may come when it shall be considered very necessary and proper to shield some future President from public discussion by the exercise of this power. " Why, sir, at this very time, from one end of the Union to the other, we find the public papers of a particular complexion ringing with attacks ...on the character and conduct of the Chief Justice of the United States, in relation to the Indian question now pending before the Supreme Court. I think these attacks are unjust ; but to check them, would you silence the i)ul)lic press ? Would you say that the Supreme Court ought to di-;ig before it every editor in the country, and thus put an end to the discussion ? I know that even if the court possessed this 114 LIFE AND SERVICES OF JAMES BUCHANAN. power, it vyould never be invoked by the present Chief Justice — a man upon whom any eulogy of mine would be lost.
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