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# Wilkinson v. United States/Dissent Brennan

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United States Supreme Court
365 U.S. 399
Wilkinson v. United States
Argued: Nov. 17, 1960. --- Decided: Feb 27, 1961
Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom Mr. Justice DOUGLAS joins, dissenting.
For the reasons stated in my Brother DOUGLAS' dissenting opinion in Braden v. United States, 365 U.S. 431, at page 446, 81 S.Ct. 584, at page 593, 5 L.Ed.2d 653, which I joined, I believe that the Committee failed to lay an adequate foundation at the hearing for questions which, it was claimed, concerned the exercise of rights protected by the First Amendment.
I also dissent because on these facts the inference is inescapable that the dominant purpose of these questions was not to gather information in aid of law making or law evaluation but rather to harass the petitioner and expose him for the sake of exposure. A scant 19 months before the hearing in question petitioner was summoned before this very Committee and refused to answer questions on substantially the same grounds as those he claimed in this instance. Nor did his conduct in the interim afford any basis for a hope that he might have repented, an inference which, by contrast, was possible in Flaxer v. United States, 358 U.S. 147, 151, 79 S.Ct. 191, 193, 3 L.Ed.2d 183, cited by the Government. For petitioner continued to proclaim his hostility to the Committee and his belief that it had no power to probe areas of free expression. He was not even called to testify at these hearings in Atlanta until the Committee learned that he was to be present in Atlanta to express his opposition to the Committee's work, as, of course, he had a right to do. In fact, the Committee's Staff Director came perilously close to admitting, on cross-examination by petitioner's counsel, that petitioner was called to the stand only because of his opposition to the Committee's activities.
It is particularly important that congressional committees confine themselves to the function of gathering information when their investigation begins to touch the realm of speech and opinion. On this record, I cannot help concluding that the Committee had no reasonable prospect that petitioner would answer its questions, and accordingly that the Committee's purpose could not have been the legitimate one of fact gathering. I am forced to the view that the questions asked of petitioner were therefore not within the Committee's power. Cf. Barenblatt v. United States, 360 U.S. 109, 166, 79 S.Ct. 1081, 1113, 3 L.Ed.2d 1115 (dissenting opinion); Uphaus v. Wyman, 360 U.S. 72, 82, 79 S.Ct. 1040, 1047, 3 L.Ed.2d 1090 (dissenting opinion). I would reverse.

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# Wilkinson v. McKimmie

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United States Supreme Court
229 U.S. 590
Wilkinson v. McKimmie
Argued: May 1, 1913. --- Decided: June 9, 1913
Messrs. Charles Poe and Alfred D. Smith for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. John Ridout and W. E. Ambrose for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Pitney delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Woman of the Century/Aurilla Furber

​FURBER, Miss Aurilla, poet, born in Cottage Grove, Minn., 19th October, 1847. She is a daughter of Warren Furber, who was well-known AURELIA FURBER. among the pioneers and founders of that State. He served as a member of the legislature of Minnesota Territory, also of several off the early State legislatures. On her mother's side Miss Furber is descended from the Minklers and Showennans of eastern New York, who were of unmixed Holland Dutch blood, although the families had lived in the United States for several generations. The Furber Mrain in her blood is English. Her great-grandfather. General Richard Furber. of New Hampshire, served in the Revolutionary War, and her grand-father, Major Pierce P. Furber, in the war of 1812. Nearly all her life has been passed in a farming community. She received her education in a log school-house, and after leaving school she engaged in teaching. Severe illness incapacitated her for school-room work, and she has been forced to play the part of a looker-on in the world's battles. Her seclusion developed the strongly poetical bent of her mind, and for years she has written much in verse. Her poems reflect her life. Although forced from the common highway, she has found a way of her own, and her verse shows that she has not lost spirit, or courage, or thought in her enforced inactivity, tier work is finished in a technical sense, and telling in a poetical sense. None of her school-day poems are in print. It is even doubtful that she wrote much in her youth, so that her present work comes to her readers in a finished dress, as the result of matured thought. Miss Furber is not, in a broad sense of the term, a scholar. Her limited opportunities for schooling in youth and her continued ill-health in late years made it impossible for her to become a liberally educated woman, but she is a thinker, and her life has not been without its rich compensation. Since 1885 she has made her home in St. Paul. Minn. Selections from her poems have been made for the "Magazine of Poetry" and "Women in Sacred Song." Her poem "Together" has been set to music by Richard Statu. She has also written prose articles for the "Pioneer Press," "Church Work" and other papers, and was one of the contributing editors of the "Woman's Record." at one time the organ of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of St. Paul. She has been identified with Woman's Christian Temperance Work for years as an officer in local, county and district organizations.
# Woman of the Century/Aurelia Roach

​ROACH, Misa Aurelia, educator, born in Atlanta, Ga., 10th March, 1865. Her father, Dr. E. J. Roach, was a physician, a native of Maryland, who removed to Georgia several years before the Civil War. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Somerset county, Md., and the original land-grants are still in the family. During the war Dr. Roach was surgeon of the 18th Georgia Regiment. After the war he returned to Atlanta, where he achieved distinction in his profession and served the public in several offices. Her mother was a daughter of A. Weldon Mitchell, one of the early settlers of Atlanta, and at one time one of its wealthiest citizens. Her great-great-grandfather on the maternal side served as lieutenant in a Georgia regiment in the Revolutionary War. Miss Roach was graduated with distinction from the girls' high school of Atlanta in June, 1882. The two years succeeding her graduation she spent in the study of French and German, with which languages she was already familiar, having studied them since early childhood. In 1884 she was appointed a teacher in one of the public schools. Beginning with the lowest grade, she was promoted until she had reached the fifth grade, when she left the school to AURELIA ROACH. travel in Europe. She made a northern tour, visiting Norway, Sweden, Russia and Denmark. During her sojourn in Europe in 1889 she acted as a special correspondent for the Atlanta "Constitution." ​In her absence she was elected to a position in the girls' high school, which she held until 1891, when she again went abroad. On her return to Atlanta she became principal of the Crew street school, one of the largest in the city. She has won distinction by her narrative and descriptive powers, and she has shown a capacity for a higher range of original and philosophic thought.
# Woman of the Century/Augusta A. Fox Henderson

​HENDERSON. Mrs. Augusta A. Fox, social leader, born near Tiffin City, Ohio, 17th AUGUSTA A. FOX HENDERSON. May, 1843. She is the daughter of Alonzo H. Fox and Caroline A. Brownell, originally of New York, now of California. Mr. Fox was a successful "Forty-niner" and removed to Iowa with his family in 1853. Mrs. Henderson was a student in the Upper Iowa University, where she met her future husband, David B. Henderson, the able and brilliant representative of the 3rd District of Iowa since 1883. In 1866 she became Mr. Henderson's wife in West Union, the home of her parents. From there they went to Dubuque, where they now live. Alive to all the interests of the day and their ever increasing demands for attention, she has the qualities of mind and heart, a true sympathy, clear discernment and sound decision, that belong to those whom fate and fortune call out as leaders.
# Woman of the Century/Augusta C. Evans Wilson

​WILSON, Mrs. Augusta C. Evans, author, born near Columbus, Ga., in 1856. Her maiden name was Augusta C. Evans. In her childhood her family removed to Texas, and afterwards to Mobile. Ala., where, in 1868, she became the wife of L. M. Wilson, a prominent citizen of Alabama. She has since lived near Mobile, in a fine old country home. AUGUSTA C. EVANS WILSON. Her first novel, "Inez, a Tale of the Alamo." was brought out in New York. It was only moderately successful. In 1859 her second book, "Beulah," was published, and its success I was instantaneous. It is still a popular book and has passed through many editions. When the Civil War broke out. she was living near Columbus, Ga., and her devotion to the Confederacy kept her from doing any literary work for several years. Her next book was "Macaria," a copy of which she sent with a litter to her New York publisher, by a blockade-runner, which carried it to Havana, Cuba, whence it was mailed to New York. It was printed on coarse brown paper, copyrighted by the "Confederate States of America," and dedicated "To the Brave Soldiers of the Southern Army." It was printed in Charleston, S. C., and published by a bookseller in Richmond, Va. The book was seized and detroyed by a Federal officer in Kentucky. It was brought out in the North and found a large sale. After the war she went to New York City and pub- lished her famous "St. Elmo," which had a very large sale. Her later works include "Vashti," "Infelice," and "At the Mercy of Tiberius." She has large wealth through her marriage and her literary earnings. During the past few years she has lived in retirement.
# Woman of the Century/Augusta Cooper Bristol

​BRISTOL. Mrs. Augusta Cooper, poet and lecturer, born in Croydon, N. H., 17th April, 1835. AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL. Her maiden name was Cooper, and she was the youngest of a family of ten children. She was a precocious child, and her poetical taste showed itself in her early infancy. Her first verses were written at the age of eight, and she had poems published when only fifteen. She was forward in mathematics and showed in her early life an aptitude for logical and philosophical reasoning. The greater part of her education was acquired in a public school, but she was also a student in Canaan Union Academy and Kimball Union Academy. She began teaching at fifteen and was thus employed summer and winter for seven years. At twenty-two years of age she was married to G. H. Kimball, from whom she was divorced live years later. In 1866 she was married to Louis Bristol, a lawyer of New Haven, Conn., and they removed to southern Illinois. In 1869 she published a volume of poems, and in that year she gave her first public lecture, which circumstance seems to have changed the course of her intellectual career. In 1872 she moved to Vineland, N. J., her present residence, from which date she has been called more before the public as a platform speaker. For four years she was president of the Ladies' Social Science Class in Vineland, N. J., giving lessons from Spencer and Carey every month. In the winter of 18S0 she gave a course of lectures before the New York Positivist Society on "The Involution of Character," followed by another course under the auspices of the Woman's Social Science Club of that city. In the following June she was sent by friends in New York to study the equitable association of labor and capital at the Familistere, in Guise, in France, founded by M. Godin. She was also commissioned to represent the New York Positivist Society in an international convention of liberal thinkers in Brussels in September. Remaining in the Familistere for three months and giving a lecture on the "Scientific Basis of Morality before the Brussels convention, she returned home and published the " Rules ana Statutes' of the association in Guise. In 1881 she was chosen State lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry in New Jersey, and in the autumn of the following year was employed on a national lecture bureau of that order. Since her husband's death, which occurred in December, 1882, Mrs. Bristol has appeared but seldom on the public platform. She is occupied with the care of an estate and in directing the ​educational interests of her youngest daughter. Some of her philosophic and scientific lectures have been translated and published in foreign countries.
# Woman of the Century/Augusta Harvey Worthen

​WORTHEN, Mrs. Augusta Harvey, educator and author, born in Sutton, N. H., 27th September, 1823. She is the daughter of Col. John and AUGUSTA HARVEY WORTHEN. Sally Greeley Harvey. Col. John Harvey was a younger brother of Jonathan and Matthew Harvey, who both became members of Congress. Matthew was, in 1831, governor of New Hampshire. When Augusta was eight years of age, she went to live with the last-named uncle, in Hopkinton, N. H., and remaimed six years, during which time she enjoyed the advantage of tuition in Hopkinton Academy. At the age of sixteen she commenced to teach in district schools, which occupation she followed for two years. Weary of idleness during the long vacations, she found employment in a Lowell cotton factory. There she remained three years, doing each day's work of fourteen hours in the factory and pursuing her studies in the evenings in a select school. The first article she offered lot print was written during that time, and was printed in the Lowell "Offering," a magazine devoted exclusively to the productions of the mill operatives. After three years she resumed teaching, and was at one time pupil-assistant in the Andover, N. H., academy, paying for her own tuition by instructing some of the younger classes. On 15th September, 1855, she became the wife of Charles F. Worthen, of Candia, N. H., who died on 15th January, 1882. After marriage to Mr. Worthen, she set herself to work to carry her share of their mutual burdens, but, after a time, comfort and competence being attained, she engaged in study and composition, and wrote prose sketches and poems. The great work of her life has been the preparation of a history of her native town, extending to over eleven-hundred pages. It was published in 1891. It is the first New Hampshire town history prepared by a woman. This heavy work being accomplished, she is again employing her ready pen in writing articles of a lighter and more imaginative character. Her home is in Lynn, Mass., to which city she removed from Danvers, Mass., with her husband, in 1858.
# Woman of the Century/Augusta Merrill Hunt

​HUNT, Mrs. Augusta Merrill, philanthropist, born in Portland, Me., 6th June, 1842. She was the youngest daughter of George S. and Ellen Merrill Barston, of Portland, Me. In 1863 she became the wife of George S. Hunt, a prominent and successful merchant of Portland. From her AUGUSTA MERRILL HUNT. mother Mrs. Hunt inherited intellectual ability, an earnest religious faith and a cheerful disposition, and from her father practical common-sense, a strong sense of justice, and the courage of her convictions. She has been actively identified with many of the prominent charitable organizations of Portland, notably that of the Portland Fraternity, the Associated Charities, the Home for Aged Women, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman's Suffrage Association. For seven years she has been the president of the Ladies' History Club, the first literary society organized by the women of Portland, which was originated in 1874. In the spring of 1876 a public meeting was called in Portland, composed of two women delegales from each church in the city, to consider the feasibility of forming a Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Hunt was present as one of the representatives from the First Universalist Church, and was called to preside over the meeting, and when, as its result, the Woman's Temperance Society was formed, the members called her to the position of president Under her direction the coffee-house, diet kitchen and diet mission and the flower mission were successfully organized and carried forward. In 1878 the society became auxiliary to the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Hunt continued as its president, which position she still retains. She has three times held the position of national superintendent in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the last department being that of higher education. In 1890 she was obliged to resign that position on account of ill health. In 1884 she was appointed by the governor of Maine as a member of the Reform School Committee. At the end of three years she declined a re-appointment on account of the pressure of other duties. In 1873, after the death of her mother, Mrs. Hunt assumed the place tins made vacant on the board of managers of the Home for Aged Women, and in 1889 was unanimously elected president of that association, which position she still retains. She has several times appeared before the Maine legislative committee in advocacy of the establishment of a reformatory prison for women in Maine, of better laws for the protection of young girls, of municipal suffrage for women, and of the cottage system in the Reform School for Boys.
# Zoonomia/II.III

The Orders and Genera of the Third Class of Diseases.
CLASS III.
DISEASES OF VOLITION.
ORDO I.
Increased Volition.
GENERA.
    1. With increased actions of the muscles.
    2. With increased actions of the organs of sense.
ORDO II.
Decreased Volition.
GENERA.
    1. With decreased actions of the muscles.
    2. With decreased actions of the organs of sense.
The Orders, Genera, and Species, of the Third Class of Diseases.
CLASS III.
DISEASES OF VOLITION.
ORDO I.
Increased Volition.
GENUS I.
With Increased Actions of the Muscles.
SPECIES.
| 1. Jactitatio. | Restlessness. |
| 2. Tremor febrilis. | Febrile trembling. |
| 3. Clamor. | Screaming. |
| 4. Risus. | Laughter. |
| 5. Convulsio. | Convulsion. |
| —— debilis. | —— weak. |
| 6. —— dolorifica. | —— painful. |
| 7. Epilepsia. | Epilepsy. |
| 8. —— dolorifica. | —— painful. |
| 9. Somnambulismus. | Sleep-walking. |
| 10. Asthma convulsivum. | Asthma convulsive. |
| 11. —— dolorificum. | —— painful. |
| 12. Stridor dentium. | Gnashing of the teeth. |
| 13. Tetanus trismus. | Cramp of the jaw. |
| 14. —— dolorificus. | —— painful. |
| 15. Hydrophobia. | Dread of water. |
GENUS II.
With increased Actions of the Organs of Sense.
SPECIES.
| 1. Mania mutabilis. | Mutable madness. |
| 2. Studium inane. | Reverie. |
| 3. Vigilia. | Watchfulness. |
| 4. Erotomania. | Sentimental love. |
| 5. Amor sui. | Vanity. |
| 6. Nostalgia. | Desire of home. |
| 7. Spes religiosa. | Superstitious hope. |
| 8. Superbia stemmatis. | Pride of family. |
| 9. Ambitio. | Ambition. |
| 10. Mæror. | Grief. |
| 11. Tædium vitæ. | Irksomeness of life. |
| 12. Desiderium pulchritudinis. | Loss of beauty. |
| 13. Paupertatis timor. | Fear of poverty. |
| 14. Lethi timor. | —— of death. |
| 15. Orci timor. | —— of hell. |
| 16. Satyriasis. | Lust. |
| 17. Ira. | Anger. |
| 18. Rabies. | Rage. |
| 19. Citta. | Depraved appetite. |
| 20. Cacositia. | Aversion to food. |
| 21. Syphilis imaginaria. | Imaginary pox. |
| 22. Psora imaginaria. | —— itch. |
| 23. Tabes imaginaria. | —— tabes. |
| 24. Sympathia aliena. | Pity. |
| 25. Educatio heroica. | Heroic education. |
ORDO II.
Decreased Volition.
GENUS I.
With decreased Actions of the Muscles.
SPECIES.
| 1. Lassitudo. | Fatigue. |
| 2. Vacillatio senilis. | See-saw of old age. |
| 3. Tremor senilis. | Tremor of old age. |
| 4. Brachiorum paralysis. | Palsy of the arms. |
| 5. Raucedo paralytica. | Paralytic hoarseness. |
| 6. Vesicæ urinariæ paralysis. | Palsy of the bladder. |
| 7. Recti paralysis. | Palsy of the rectum. |
| 8. Paresis voluntaria. | Voluntary debility. |
| 9. Catalepsis. | Catalepsy. |
| 10. Hemiplegia. | Palsy of one side. |
| 11. Paraplegia. | Palsy of the lower limbs. |
| 12. Somnus. | Sleep. |
| 13. Incubus. | Night-mare. |
| 14. Lethargus. | Lethargy. |
| 15. Syncope epileptica. | Epileptic fainting. |
| 16. Apoplexia. | Apoplexy. |
| 17. Mors a frigore. | Death from cold. |
GENUS II.
With decreased Actions of the Organs of Sense.
SPECIES.
| 1. Recollectionis jactura. | Loss of recollection. |
| 2. Stultitia voluntaria. | Voluntary folly. |
| 3. Credulitas. | Credulity. |
# Zoonomia/II.II.II.I

ORDO II.
Decreased Sensation.
GENUS I.
Of the General System.
SPECIES.
1. Stultitia insensibilis. Folly from insensibility. The pleasure or pain generated in the system is not sufficient to promote the usual activity either of the sensual or muscular fibres.
2. Tædium vitæ. Ennui. Irksomeness of life. The pain of laziness has been thought by some philosophers to be that principle of action, which has excited all our industry, and distinguished mankind from the brutes of the field. It is certain that, where the ennui exists, it is relieved by the exertions of our minds or bodies, as all other painful sensations are relieved; but it depends much upon our early habits, whether we become patient of laziness, or inclined to activity, during the remainder of our lives, as other animals do not appear to be affected with this malady; which is perhaps left owing to deficiency of pleasurable sensation, than to the superabundancy of voluntary power, which occasions pain in the muscles by its accumulation; as appears from the perpetual motions of a squirrel confined in a cage.
3. Paresis sensitiva. Weakness of the whole system from insensibility.