I happened to remember a celebrated case. which he tried in the Supreme Court of the United States. which was widely discussed by the legal fledglings and others during my "Who is Who and Why Years." That case is Boyd against Nebraska ex rel. Thayer. one hundred and fortythird United States Reports. page 135. I have heard wouldbe historians with great dramatic effort recite how the fearless and capable John Lee Webster in his argument before the Supreme Court of the United States. asked certain of the Justices of the Supreme Court by name. how their ancestors. living in a named State. claimed their right to be regarded as citizens of the United States. when no United States naturalization law was ever resorted to and in some instances was not then in being. How the people of the Original Thirteen States acquired citizenship in the United States. It was decided by the Supreme Court on February 1. 1892. and a check of Shepards Citator discloses that various phases of that case have been cited with approval at least 125 times. and that it has never been reversed or modified. and is still the law of the land.
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