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Updated: April 30, 2025
The Spanish flag had been hauled down to give place to the flag of the insurgents, bearing the inspiring motto Salus populi suprema lex. Then General Matthews with a squad of regular United States troops had crossed the river and taken possession.
"Ballantyne called on me this morning. Venit illa suprema dies. My extremity is come. Cadell has received letters from London which all but positively announce the failure of Hurst and Robinson, so that Constable and Co. must follow, and I must go with poor James Ballantyne for company.
One of the most curious uses to which it was put, was to mark the Suprema tempestas, which closed the hours of legal business, by means of its shadow projected on the pavement; a primitive mode of reckoning time which existed before the first Punic war, and was afterwards superseded by a sun-dial and a clepsydra or water-clock erected in the Forum.
Some said that the General "scented their purpose" to declare themselves perpetual, and to get rid of him by ordering him to Scotland. "Others say this, that the cries of the oppressed proveiled much with him.... & hastned the declaracion of that ould principle, Salus populi suprema lex &c."
Sanitation takes its place among the great modern revolutions political, social and intellectual. Great Britain deserves the credit for the first practical recognition of the maxim salus populi suprema lex.
His subjects submitted to his claim of "Regis voluntas suprema lex," in matters connected with the administration of the government, in diplomacy, in the drama, in music, and in literature, but they deny his power to impose upon them his taste in pictorial art.
Each has for its object the PUBLIC SAFETY. For this a Senator is expelled; for this, also, the President is expelled. Salus Populi Suprema Lex. The proceedings in each case must be in subordination to this rule." Thus, Mr. Sumner would have removed the President by an ordinary concurrent resolution of Congress. Johnson's conviction.
But that his main purpose was to break down a rotten system, and establish a sound one on its ruins, and that no petty motive of expediency guided him, but only the one principle, 'salus populi suprema lex, is incontrovertible.
"No, indeed," he exclaimed, "it is the salus populi." And he added, "Suprema Lex." "Not for me," I said. I continued, "I would not kill a child to save a people." "Cato did so." "Jesus did not do so." And I added,
Salus populi suprema lex, ever has been and ever will be the substantial canon of policy with public men, and morality is bound to hesitate before it censures them. There are some acts of injustice which no national interest can excuse, however great in itself that interest may be, or however certain to be attained by the means proposed.
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