rightfulness

Updated: June 2, 2025

Undoubtedly these were able men, but not impartial jurists. In the words of an American newspaper, 'the chances of convincing them of the rightfulness of Canada's claim are about the same as the prospect of a thaw in Hades. The Dominion Government at once protested against these appointments.

Oscar Douglas Skelton - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time

The Church's personal property was restored by an Act of Congress approved October 25, 1893, but it was stipulated in the Act that the money was not to be used for the support of any church buildings in which "the rightfulness of the practice of polygamy" should be taught.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

A direct attack on Roman slavery, as it would have called in question the rightfulness of war the leading policy of the Roman government would, of course, have been peculiarly perilous to its presumptuous author.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

It was not a mere challenge of the policy or rightfulness of the Reconstruction Acts; it was not a mere pledge of opposition to their progress and completion; but it logically involved their overthrow, with the subversion of their results, in case the Democratic party should acquire the power to enforce its principles and to execute its threats.

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

Calvin Pope; a most worthy and soul-quieting divine; one who spareth not the goad when the conscience needeth pricking, nor hesitateth to dispense consolation to him who seeth his fallen estate; and one that never faileth to deal with charity, and humbleness of spirit, and forbearance with the failings of friends, and forgiveness of enemies, as the chiefest signs of a renovated moral existence; and, therefore, there can be but little reason to distrust the spiritual rightfulness of all that listen to the riches of his discourse.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

Supposed Profitableness of Lying. Plea for "Lies of Necessity." Lying not Justifiable between Enemies in War-time. Rightfulness of Concealing Movements and Plans from Enemy. Responsibility with Flag of Truce. Difference between Scout and Spy. Ethical Distinctions Recognized by Belligerents. Libby Prison Experiences. Physicians and Patients. Concealment not Necessarily Deception.

H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull - A Lie Never Justifiable