Excerpt from Some Opinions and Papers of Stephen J. Field, Vol. 1: Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, United States Circuit Justice for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States The right of' Congress to punish Officers of a State for the manner in which they discharge their duties under its laws, denied; the relations between the Federal and the State governments, defined; and the doctrine that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments secure to all persons only civil rights, and not political rights, asserted. 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.