Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of South Carolina: Covering All the Cases (Law and Equity) From the Organization of the Court (Bay's Reports) Up to and Including Volume 25 of the South Carolina Reports The danger, however, under almost any form of government, is not so much of direct and palpable violations of acknowledged principles, as of perversions and sophistications. Even in Turkey, where an unmasked despotism disregards the very forms Of justice, power finds it more safe and convenient to resort to the abuse of principles, than to open violations Of them. Of this truth Dr. Clarke, the famous traveller, Has given some curious examples. 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.