Excerpt from In the Supreme Court of the State of California: The Stockton and Visalia Railroad Company, Petitioner, V. The Common Council of the City of Stockton, Respondent; Reply of the Southern Pacific R. R. Co. To the Third and Last Brief of the Respondent The foregoing is undoubtedly impertinent, as re; spects the question before the Court, and would be impertinent, as respects myself. Were I not fully advised that the author has pondered with jaundiced eyes so long upon the several topics referred to, that he has become a monomaniac in reference to all of them. While he labors under his present delusion, I should not be justified in resenting his acts or sayings. Such people must be humored, not crossed. Guided by this con sideration, I will proceed to inform him how my. 'lexicon defines civil liberty in the respects men tioned by him, and What my political dictionary teaches in respect to the relations which exist be-f tween the people and the Government ordained by them, -and some things which it does not teach' me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.