The Answer and Pleas of Samuel Chase, One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: to the Articles of Impeachment, Exhibited Against Him in the Senate, by the House of Representatives of the United States, in Support of Their I
The Answer and Pleas of Samuel Chase, One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: to the Articles of Impeachment, Exhibited Against Him in the Senate, by the House of Representatives of the United States, in Support of Their I
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 Excerpt: ... serviceable to the Britisti interest," in any sense, much less with those improper and criminal views, with which the publication in question certainly meant to charge him. He might, in the honest and prudent performance of his duty towards his government and his country, incidentally promote the interests of another ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 Excerpt: ... serviceable to the Britisti interest," in any sense, much less with those improper and criminal views, with which the publication in question certainly meant to charge him. He might, in the honest and prudent performance of his duty towards his government and his country, incidentally promote the interests of another country; but it was by no means competent for a jury to infer from thence, that he was faithful" to that other country, or, in other words, that he held the interests of that other country chiefly in view, and was actuated in giving his vote by a desire to promote them, independently of, or without regard to the interests of his own country. Such an inference could not be made from the fact, admitting it to be true, The fact, if true, was no evidence to support such an inference, therefore the fact was immaterial; and as it is the province and duty of the court, in such circumstances, to decide on the materiality of facts offered in evidence, it follows clearly, that it was the right and duty of the court, in this instance, to reject the third question; an affirmative answer to which could have proved, nothing in support of the defence. The first question, therefore, and the only remaining one proposed to be put to this witness, stood alone j.and and an affirmative answer to it, if it could have proved any thing, could have proved only a part of the charge; viz. that Mr. Adams was an aristocrat. But evidence to prove a part only of an entire and indivisible charge, was inadmissible for the reasons stated above. If, on the other hand, the phrases in question, "that Mr. Adams was an aristocrat," that "he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest," were distinct and divisible, and constituted two di...
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