The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-05-14
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A second, third, aud fourth experiment
had the same result The. English Off
GERS expressed their qualification and as
tonishment by loud cheers, and one of
them asked Lynch if he was notan Irish
man? egFGa A sisl :
| - am by birth, Sir was his reply.
How, long have you been in the
Americaa service2 q
| About six months, Sir said Lynch
| "The officer gave him sovereign; and
turning to his brothers, said 1: Here is an
IriShlnan who has been in the American
Navy but six months, and I'll wager q
hundred pounds he can de what not one
Of his countrymen in the British service
can, The officers expressed their thanks
to Sergeant Shaw for his attention, and
proffered him five pounds as q slight ex-
preston of their satisfaction The Ser
geant drew himself up to his full height,
and said = t a9f IA
"sI thank you, gentlemen, but nom
commissioned officer of the American
Navy never receives presents on dutyD =
"'I'l wager another hundred pounds,
said the British officer again, there is not
a Sergeant in the English army or navy
would have done that ti
. The officers of the garrison were much
gratifed; and would be difficult to de-
eide whether the gallant Commodore was
more pleased with the skill of Private
Lynch or the nice sense of nordisplay-
ed by Sergeant Shaw. al SEa5 tsE
"a few days afterward, Captain de
Lacy, of the garrison, inquired of passed
midshipman Brook, How they Ameri-
canized Irishmen so rapidly p
90 No trouble at ALL said Brook; there
is an atmosphere breathed under the Amer
lean flag that makes every man an Amer
lean who serves underneath it.
| :" believe you, said Captain de Lacy.
Honor to the American flag, and to the
gallant tars that defend it = u
Decision of the Wheeling Bridge Case.
| In the Supreme Court on Monday,
Justice Nelson delivered the opinion of
the Court in the case of the State of Penn
Esylvania, complainants against the Wheel
ing Bridge Company, and others, dissol-
wing the injunction granted by the Cir
cult Jadge, oyer-ruling the motion of the
com 9lainunts for writs of assistance and
I.attachinents and granting, the motions for
taxatioa of the costs and process therefor
Justice Nelson said the defendants had
taken the grounds that the act of Con-
gresss declaring the bridge a legal strnc-
ture and a post-route, and requiring steam
boat chimneys not to- iaterfere with it,
superseded the decision of the Coart in
1852, against the defendants, while the
plaintiffs assumed that the ac, of Congress
subsequently passed, was unconstitutional
and void. The latter raised the principal
objection in the case. In consequence oi
the law, the decree could not be enforced,
nor The act regarded as conflicting with the
clanse of the Constitution, which says, no
preference shall be given by any reg
ulation of commerce or revenue to the
ports Of one State over another as has
been contended So far as the bridge
created an obstruction, it must be consid-
cred as modified, and although ansobstruc-
ton in fact, it was not such in coatsmpla-
tion of the law.
Justice Daniel, while expressing his
opinion. said he could not sanction the
course OF the Circuit Judge (Grier} in or
dering the issning Iof the attachment
The remainder of the Jndg.s ofthis Court
having had nothing to do with.it sait
every point in the case should he disrnis
sed. 1 s.
/ Justice Mclean said that seven mem
bers of this Court Como cahscnt had here
i tofore held this bridge to he a nuisance
4 BY the law of Congress referred to, pre-
/ ference. is. given to Wheeling oYeri Pitts
Eburgh and other places above the bridge
/ Had Congress required all steamboat
chimneys to be cut down, no preference
would exist of one port over another
The principle was deeply interesting t
the commerce. of the West. One third 0
I the commerce of the Union might thus b,
affected. Hundredsfef similar structure
might be thrown over the Mississippi, t
the detrment of millions of the commerc
t of that river and its tributaries.
: The opinions of Justices Nelson, Dan
iel and Mclean occupied two hours ant
half in their delivery.
Letting the Cat out
"a gentleman who had carefully train
ed up his servant the way he should &c
50 that when his wife was present h
! might not depart from it, sent him with
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