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# Oregon Improvement Company v. Excelsior Coal Company

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United States Supreme Court
132 U.S. 215
Oregon Improvement Company v. Excelsior Coal Company
Calderon Carlisle and Sidney V. Smith, for plaintiff in error.
J. J. Scrivner, for defendant in error.
BLATCHFORD, J.

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# Piccirillo v. New York

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## Dissenting Opinions

    Douglas
    Brennan
United States Supreme Court
400 U.S. 548
Piccirillo v. New York
Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York
No. 97. Argued: November 9, 1970 --- Decided: January 25, 1971
Writ of certiorari, granted to resolve question whether "transactional" rather than "use" immunity is constitutionally required to compel a witness to testify before a New York grand jury, is dismissed as improvidently granted in light of another decision by highest state court holding that transactional immunity is required in New York and that its earlier decision in the instant case may have rested on that premise.
24 N.Y. 2d 598, 249 N.E. 2d 412, certiorari dismissed.
Malvine Nathanson argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs was William E. Hellerstein.
Stanley M. Meyer argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Eugene Gold.
PER CURIAM.

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# Piccioli v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
390 U.S. 202
Piccioli v. United States
No. 4. Argued: N/A --- Decided: March 4, 1968
Certiorari granted; No. 4, 352 F. 2d 856; No. 5, 354 F. 2d 224; No. 6, 354 F. 2d 27; No. 10, 355 F. 2d 924, 356 F. 2d 324; No. 32, 367 F. 2d 347; No. 374, 379 F. 2d 394; and No. 2, Misc., 352 F. 2d 848, vacated and remanded.
Alfred Belinkie for petitioner in No. 4. Edward G. Burstein for petitioner in No. 5. David Goldstein and Jacob D. Zeldes for petitioner in No. 6. Francis J. DiMento, Paul J. Burns and Ronald R. Popeo for petitioners in No. 10. Albert J. Krieger and Robert Kasanof for petitioners in No. 32. Max M. Barr for petitioner in No. 374.
Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson, Beatrice Rosenberg and Marshall Tamor Golding for the United States in No. 4 and No. 2, Misc. Solicitor General Marshall for the United States in Nos. 5, 6 and 10. Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Miss Rosenberg for the United States in No. 32. Acting Solicitor General Spritzer, Assistant Attorney General Vinson, Miss Rosenberg and Jerome M. Feit for the United States in No. 374.
PER CURIAM.

## Notes

* ↑ Together with No. 5, Millo v. United States; No. 6, Grassia v. United States; No. 10, Driscoll et al. v. United States; No. 32, Serao et al. v. United States; No. 374, Wrieole v. United States; and No. 2, Misc., Gjanci v. United States, all on petitions for writs of certiorari. Nos. 5, 6, 32, and 2, Misc., are to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 374 to the Third Circuit, and No. 10 to the First Circuit. The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in No. 2, Misc., is also granted.
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# Piccioli v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
390 U.S. 202
Piccioli v. United States
The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted, the judgments of the courts below are vacated, and the cases are remanded for further consideration in the light of Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39, 88 S.Ct. 697, 716, 19 L.Ed.2d 889.
Mr. Justice MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of Nos. in the consideration or decision of these cases.

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# Pierce v. Cox/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
76 U.S. 786
Pierce v. Cox
The motion on the part of the appellant to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that no citation was issued according to law, cannot be sustained. The appellee is in court represented by counsel, and makes no objection to the want of citation. By this appearance the citation is waived so far as the appellee is concerned, and the appellant cannot be heard to object the want of citation occasioned by her own negligence, and cured by voluntary appearance.
But the motion of the appellee must be granted on both the grounds presented.
The law does not give to this court jurisdiction of appeals from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia when the amount in controversy is less than $1000.
There is, moreover, no evidence in the record of any allowance of appeal; and without an allowance this court cannot acquire jurisdiction.
WRIT DISMISSED.

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# Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

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Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), was an early 20th century United States Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded coverage of the Due Process Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The case has been cited as a precedent in over 100 Supreme Court cases, including Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), as well as in more than 70 cases in the courts of appeals.
United States Supreme Court
268 U.S. 510
Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
United States District Court for the District of Oregon
No. 583 Argued: March 16 and 17, 1925 --- Decided: June 1, 1925
Mr. Willis S. Moore, of Salem, Or., for other appellants.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 511-512 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Wm. D. Guthrie, of New York City for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 513-521 intentionally omitted]
Mr. J. P. Kavanaugh, of Portland, Or., for appellee Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.
Messrs. George E. Chamberlain, of Portland, Or., and Albert H. Putney, of Washington, D. C., for appellant Pierce.
Mr. John C. Veatch, of Portland, Or., for appellee Hill Military Academy.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 521-529 intentionally omitted]

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# Pierce v. Carskadon/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
83 U.S. 234
Pierce v. Carskadon
This case is covered in every particular by the decisions of this court in Cummings v. The State of Missouri, and in Ex parte Garland, reported in 4th Wallace. Upon the authority of those decisions the judgment of the Supreme Court of West Virginia must be REVERSED, and the cause remanded for further proceedings; and it is
SO ORDERED.
BRADLEY, J., dissented from the judgment, on the ground that the test oath in question was one which it was competent for the State to exact as a war measure in time of civil war.

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# Pierce v. Cox

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United States Supreme Court
76 U.S. 786
Pierce v. Cox
THIS was the case of two motions to dismiss an appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; one of the motions being made by the appellant on the ground that no citation had been issued according to law, and the other by the appellee, because the amount in controversy was not of the value of $1000. Moreover, there was no evidence in the record of an allowance of the appeal. As to the value of the amount in controversy, it appeared that it was a life interest in $1200 of six per cent. stock of the corporation of Washington, and not worth $1000.
Mr. Brent, for the appellant; Mr. Davidge, contra.
The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Pierce v. Somerset Railway

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United States Supreme Court
171 U.S. 641
Pierce v. Somerset Railway
D. D. Stewart and H. B. Cleaves, for plaintiffs in error.
E. F. Webb and J. H. Drummond, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Pierce v. Creecy

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United States Supreme Court
210 U.S. 387
Pierce v. Creecy
Argued: April 20, 21, 1908. --- Decided: June 1, 1908
This is an appeal directly to this court from a judgment of the circuit court upon a writ of habeas corpus, remanding the petitioner, now appellant, to the custody of the respondent, now appellee. The petition for the writ of habeas corpus alleges that the petitioner was 'imprisoned, detained, confined, and restrained of his liberty, at the city of St Louis, within the district aforesaid, by Edmund P. Creecy, the chief of police of said city of St. Louis, in violation of the laws and Constitution of the United States.' There is no dispute about the facts, which, as they appear in the petition and the return, are as follows. The governor of the state of Texas made a requisition upon the governor of the state of Missouri, which is as follows:
To the Governor of the State of Missouri:
Whereas, it appears by the annexed documents, which are hereby certified to be authentic, that H. Clay Pierce stands charged with false swearing, committed in the state of Texas, and information having been received that the said H. Clay Pierce has fled from justice and has taken refuge in Missouri.

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# Our Happy Land of Canaan

“Our Happy Land of Canaan.”
A new Song for Confederate Soldiers and Patriots.
By Leander Ker.
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Oh! the Yankees in their pride, (Whom no one can abide,) Came down to the South a prominading; They came to take our soil, With the fruits of all our toil, And to rob us of our happy land of Canaan; But oh! ho! ho!—ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! They found it a bloody prominading, For they more than met their match, When the Southrons did them catch, And flogged them in the happy land of Canaan.
With all their pride and scorn, They are vile and base, low born; No honor do they have, or ever showing, But to lie, and cheat, and steal, They can do with fiendish zeal; Oh! shall they have our happy land of Cannan? Oh! no! no! no!—ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! To them a day of trouble is a coming: We will never mind the weather; no, For let it rain or snow, We will fight for our happy land of Canaan.
They may roam round the land, And try on every hand To injure or destroy us a nation; They may plunder, rob and burn, And cause our land to mourn, But they shant have our happy land of Canaan: Oh! no! no! no!—ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! To them the day of Vengeance is a coming, We will never mind the weather—no, For let it rain, or snow, We will die for our happy land of Canaan.
With our Johnstons and McGruders, Of the Ship of State the rudders; And with Beauregard to drive them to perdition, With our Longstreets and our Lees, We can flog them at our ease, And will drive them from our happy land of Canaan.
And oh! ho! ho!—ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Look out, Yankees, Stonewall is a coming; Oh! won’t he wind them up, And make each Lincoln pup Skedaddle from our happy land of Canaan. But ’tis time to end my song, Before it gets too long; One thing more I would add while I’m singing— To the Ladies I would say, Heaven bless you every day, For ’tis you make this happy land of Canaan; Then oh! ho! ho!—ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Cheer up, Girls, a good time is coming; Oh! won’t we happy be, When from the Yankees free, And not a Yankee in our happy land of Canaan!
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# Our Hills

The date when Sidney Lanier composed this poem is not given, but is likely about 1868. Along with “The Raven Days” and “Laughter in the Senate”, this poem is Lanier’s lament for the devastated land and people of the South in those desperate times following the American Civil War.
Dear Mother-Earth  Of Titan birth, Yon hills are your large breasts, and often I Have climbed to their top-nipples, fain and dry To drink my mother’s-milk so near the sky.
 O ye hill-stains,  Red, for all rains! The blood that made you has all bled for us, The hearts that paid you are all dead for us, The trees that shade you groan with lead, for us!
 And O, hill-sides,  Like giants’ brides Ye sleep in ravine-rumpled draperies, And weep your springs in tearful memories Of days that stained your robes with stains like these!
 Sleep on, ye hills!  Weep on, ye rills! The stainers have decreed the stains shall stay. They chain the hands might wash the stains away. They wait with cold hearts till we “rue the day”.
 O Mother-Earth  Of Titan birth, Thy mother’s-milk is curdled with aloe. —Like hills, Men, lift calm heads through any woe, And weep, but bow not an inch, for any foe!
 Thou Sorrow-height  We climb by night, Thou hast no hell-deep chasm save Disgrace. To stoop, will fling us down its fouled space: Stand proud! The Dawn will meet us, face to face, For down steep hills the Dawn loves best to race!
# Our Hearts Are Married, But We Are Too Young

Written in 1918, under Orwell's birthname of "Eric Blair" when he was 15-years old.
OUR MINDS are married, but we are too young  For wedlock by the customs of this age  When parent homes pen each in separte cage And only supper-earning songs are sung.
Times past, when medieval woods were green,  Babes were betrothed, and that betrothal brief.  Remember Romeo in love and grief— Those star-crossed lovers—Juliet was fourteen.
Times past, the caveman by his new-found fire  Rested beside his mate in woodsmoke’s scent.  By our own fireside we shall rest content Fifty years hence keep troth with hearts desire.
We shall remember, when our hair is white, These clouded days revealed in radiant light.
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# Our Heritage from 1776

Contains articles previously published in Workers' Monthly and The Daily Worker
Our Heritage from 1776
A Working Class View of the First American Revolution
by
BERTRAM D. WOLFE
One of the First American Revolutionary Flags
page
* Whose Revolution Is It?
* On the Fourth of July
* Uphold the Revolutionary Tradition
* End Matter
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# Our Grandfather (1887)/Preface

PREFACE.
The Translator.
# Pieces People Ask For/Taters

TATERS.
(WITH A CHORUS.)
Of all the wonderful works of Nater,
What surprises me most, she can make a tater! She gathers the stuff to produce a skin,
And then gradually stuffs the tater in.
Chorus.
Tater! tater! Best bread made by Nater!
No baker alive could make a tater.
In Ireland, where earth is so fertile and turfy,
They mispronounce tater by calling it Murphy.
In France, where all language to ribbons they tear,
They nominate tater a pomme de terre!
Tater ! tater ! The brown bread of Nater!
Old Nick couldn't give a worse nickname for tater.
Of words that sound proud I was always a hater—
Per-contra—per-centum—per-digious—per-tater!
All creatures that purr, from a fool to a cat,
Should be made to eat taters without any fat.
Tater! tater! Good Nater creator!
If an angel said per, I belave I should bate her.
O how shall I praise you? I don't want to hurt you
By making you vain and destroying your virtue;
But — baked, fried, boiled, roasted, you're equally good,
And in pigpen or palace alike understood.
Tater! tater! First and best boon of Nater!
When I stop being poet, I'd turn to a tater.
What makes all men kin? It is "one touch of Nater!"
And what is that touch, but the touch of a tater?
Of all flowers of the field, tater flour I most prize,
Best bread for the body and meet for the eyes.
Tater! tater! Did I wish to beat Nater,
I'd take you when new, and produce a baked tater!
Some scoff at a tater, and don't wish to see un;
They say you are vulgar and very plebeian,
And call you a root! But their minds are unsound:
It's your modesty tells you to hide in the ground.
Tater! tater! Many-eyed, potent tater!
(King Richard with III. was only Dick-tater.)
But alas! you are deaf to my harp's fond endeavor,
Or I'd sing in this beautiful fashion forever!
You have eyes, but you see not; you're deaf as a drum;
And as none else will listen, like you I'll be dumb.
Tater! tater! When I leave mortal Nater,
Let the world calmly think what I thought of a tater!
W. O. Eaton.
# Pieces People Ask For/The "Course of Love" Too "Smooth"

THE "COURSE OF LOVE" TOO "SMOOTH."
She came tripping from the church-door, her face flushed by emotions, awakened by the just uttered discourse, and eyes bright with loving expectation. He shivered on the ​curbstone, where for an hour he had waited impatiently, with a burning heart fairly palpitating in his throat, and frozen fingers in his pockets. They linked arms, and started for the residence of her parents. After a few moments' hesitating,, silence, he said, "Jane, we have known each other long. You must know just how I feel. You must have seen that clear down at the bottom—O Moses!"
He had slipped down on the ice with so much force that his spine was driven up into his hat, and his hat was tipped over his nose; but she was a tender-hearted girl; she did not laugh, but she carefully helped him to his feet, and said,—
"You were saying, John, when you slipped, that the foundation—Oh, goodness!"
She slipped herself that time, and saw little stars come down to dance before her eyes; but he pulled her up in haste, and went on,—
"Yes; just as I said, clean down at the bottom of my heart is a fervent love, on which I build my hopes. That love has helped me stand and face—Thunder!"
He was down again, but scrambled up before she could stoop to help him; and she said, breathlessly,—
"Yes, yes, John. You remember you just said a love which helped you stand and face thunder. And that you founded your hopes on — This pesky ice!"
There she sat. John grasped the loose part of her sack, between the shoulders, with one hand, and raised her to her feet, as one would lift a kitten from a pail of water by the back of the neck. Then he said, with increased earnestness,—
"Of course, darling; and I have longed for an opportunity to tell my love, and to hear those sweet lips whisper—Whoop!"
Somehow John's feet had slipped from under him, and he had come down like a capital V with his head and feet pointing skyward. She twined her taper fingers in his curling locks, and raised him to the stature of a man, set his hat firmly over his eyes with both hands, and cried, in breathless haste,—
"I understand! and let me assure you, John, that if it is in my power to lighten your cares, and make lighter your journey through life to—Jerusalem!"
John stood alone, and said with breathless vehemence,—
"O my precious! and thus shall it be my lifelong pleasure ​to lift you from the rude assaults of earth, and surround you with the loving atmosphere of—Texas!"
And there they both sat together. They had nearly reached the gate, and, hand in hand, and with hearts overflowing with the bliss of young love's first confession, they crept along on their knees up to the front steps, and were soon forgetful of their bumps on the softest cushion of the parlor sofa.
# Pieces People Ask For/The Driver of Ninety-three

THE DRIVER OF NINETY-THREE.
Street-car driver, "Ninety-three!" Very weary and worn was he, As he dragged himself to his little home; Long, long hours from year to year, Never a day for rest, no cheer, In the woods or meadows in joy to roam.
All day through in tiresome round, Wages scanty, and prospects bound In a treadmill life from sun to sun, Facing the winter's cold and sleet, Facing the summer's burning heat, With little to hope and little won.
The clothing was poor of "Ninety-three," And poor as well for the family; But the wife was patient with gentle grace. "I've watched all day by the baby's bed; "I think he is going, John," she said, With an anxious look on her pallid face.   He gazed with pride on his baby boy. "He is handsome, wife!" and a look of joy Just for a moment dried the tears. "How does he look in the glad daylight? I have never seen him, except at night;" And he sighed as he thought of the weary years.
Labor the blessing of life should be, But it seemed like a curse to "Ninety-three," For twice too long were the toiling hours; Never the time to improve the mind, Or joy in his little ones to find: Grasping and thoughtless are human powers.
All night long did the driver stay By the beautiful child, then stole away, Hoping, still hoping that God would save; But when the sun in the heavens rose high, The time had come for the baby to die, And the mother had only an open grave.
"I must take a day," said "Ninety-three"
To the wealthy railroad company;
"I shall see the face of my child," he said.
Oh, bitter the thought to wait till death
Has whitened the cheek and stopped the breath,
Before we can see our precious dead!
With many a tear and half-moaned prayer,
With apple-blossoms among his hair,
They buried the child of their fondest love;
And the man went back to the treadmill life
With a kindlier thought for his stricken wife.
Ah, well, there's a reckoning day above!
Sarah K. Bolton.