Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — JUSTICE HARLAN DISSENTS. [ARTICLE]

JUSTICE HARLAN DISSENTS.

At the conclusion of the reading - of Judge Bradley’s opinion, which occupied more than an hour, Justice Harlan said that under ordinary circumstances and in an ordinary case he should hesitate to set up his Individual opinion in opposition to his eight colleagues, but, in view of what he thought the people of this country wished to accomplish, what they tried to accomplish, and what they believed they had accomplished by means of this legislation, he must express his dissent from the opinion of the court. Ho had not time since hearing that opinion to prepare a statement of the grounds of his dissent, but he should prepare and file one as soon as possible, and in the meantime he desired to put upon rec ord this expression of his individual judg moot.