Washington, Ga., Nov. 19, 1847.
Dear Thomas, I
did not receive your favour of the 20th Oct. touching the Gilbert case until I
returned home yesterday, and was not aware that the case had been taken up at
all until I heard it had been decided by the Supr[eme] Court.1 The
Supr[eme] Court is becoming a perfect nuisance. Unless we can get a lawyer on
the bench, it will go down. I have disliked to say so heretofore, but from a
careful inspection of its decisions I am well satisfied that the Court has
committed more errors than it ever corrected; and I think such is becoming the
general opinion of the profession.
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1 The Supreme Court of Georgia, then but recently
established.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The
Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p.
88-9
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