Obedience to the Law

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Excerpt from Obedience to the Law: An Address at the Opening of Petigru College in Columbia, South Carolina, June 9, 1919Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: -It is with great pleasure that I find myself again in Columbia, for I hold in very grateful remembrance the warm welcome that I received some sixteen years ago when I came here to address the Bar Association of South Carolina. What I said then was received more cordially by my auditors than it would have been in my native State of Massachusetts, though what I preached was the faith of the men who founded this great republic. What I say to-day should, in my judgment, be accepted wherever men are civilized, for it is the faith without which civilization cannot endure.I rejoice that the occasion which calls me here is the dedication of a new building for the teachers of law, for there never was a time in the history of the world when it was more important to teach the knowledge of and respect for the law.It is inevitable that during such a war as has just ended the restraints of law should be weakened, for, as Sydney Smith said, "In war, God is forgotten, " and human law suffers with the divine, but never within the memory of man has every existing system of law been affected so radically as now. Autocracy in Russia, Austria, Germany, and Turkey, its strongholds in Europe, has been overthrown, and the monarchs of Bulgaria and Greece as well as of all the smaller German states have abandoned their thrones. Bolshevism controls Russia and threatens all its neighbors, and no one is confident how long any existing government will last in any of the countries where lately imperialism seemed firmly rooted. The whole governmental system of Europe is in solution, and what the outcome will be no man can tell. Our own government, hitherto believed to be a government with limited powers, has become under the decisions of the Supreme Court a government with unlimited powers, at least in time of war, and it may be difficult hereafter to restore the limitations in time of peace.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.