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"Now, look here, auntie," Rosebud had gathered herself together for a final blow. One little hand was clenched, and it rested on the edge of the table ready to emphasize her words. "I do regard my position seriously. But I have to live my life myself, and will not be trammeled by any conventions of your social world.
Without doubt, many of these votes on the admissibility of testimony were governed by, the usual rules prevailing in the courts, but it was deemed by others that every question not manifestly frivolous, or not pertinent, should be permitted answer without objection, regardless of such rules that the Senate sitting for the trial of an Impeachment of the President of the United States the occasion a great State Trial should not be trammeled or belittled by the technicalities common to ordinary court practice that the Senate was composed supposedly of gentlemen and lawyers of high standing in their profession and familiar with public affairs and public law that they were sitting in a semi-judicial capacity not merely as Senators or jurors, but, judges also judges of fact as well as of law and constituted the highest trial body known to our laws a tribunal from which there was no appeal that each of its members had taken a solemn oath to "do impartial justice" in this cause, absolutely unswerved by partisan or personal considerations, and that as such each member had not only the right, but it was his duty under his oath, as well, to hermit no obstacle or condition to unnecessarily keep from him a knowledge of all available facts pertinent to the cause, no matter on which side they might weigh to help or to hurt.
The savage living in the open air, not trammeled with much clothing, anointing his skin with oil, eating uncooked food, delighting in the chase and in battle, and living thus because his surroundings indicate it, becomes swart and athletic, fierce, cunning and cruel takes ethnologically the lowest place.
The dust, the suffocating heat, the stale, vapid air, the indescribable sense of a lower level all these affected her like a veritable burden, accustomed as she was to the light and rare mountain breeze, to the tempered sun, the mist, and the cloud. The new and untried conditions of town life trammeled and constrained her.
"If Georgia is a State in the Union her people feel that she is entitled to representation without conditions imposed by Congress; and if she is not a State in the Union then she could not be admitted as an equal with the others if her admission were trammeled with conditions that did not apply to all the rest alike."
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