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But lawyers could still distinguish, and the hyperloyal could still maintain the essential rightfulness of the verdict.
THE JUDICIAL MURDER OF MARY E. SURRATTDAVID MILLER DEWITT
Let the remnant of my life be an inward and outward desolation; but never, never let sacred rightfulness fall.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS, VOL VIIIARTHUR MEE AND J.A. HAMMERTON, EDS.
This open vindication of the rightfulness of slaveholding is by no means confined to persons residing at the South.
SLAVERY AND THE CONSTITUTIONWILLIAM INGERSOLL BOWDITCH
He demanded, only, that Jason should show his rightfulness to be deemed a king's son by some act of heroic bravery.
THE BOY WITH THE U.S. MINERSFRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
By such arguments Suger defended the rightfulness and value of the goldsmiths art in the service of the Church.
A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVINGGEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
More than nine-tenths of us deny the rightfulness of offensive, and a large majority, even that of defensive national wars.
THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER, OMNIBUSAMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
I will show the injustice which they suffer and the rightfulness of their resistance.
AMERICAN ELOQUENCE, VOLUME III. (OF 4)VARIOUS
It is idle to make the rightfulness of an act the measure of sovereign power.
AMERICAN ELOQUENCE, VOLUME II. (OF 4)VARIOUS
But the gentiles were not disposed to concede the rightfulness of these claims.
THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS HAREMC.V. WAITE
In taxing it we do not assume its rightfulness; we only assume its undeniable existence as a fact, and nothing else.
CHARLES SUMNER; HIS COMPLETE WORKS, VOLUME 9 (OF 20)CHARLES SUMNER

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