But Moses excelled the legislators of Greece and Rome, by making an assault or chastisement which killed him upon the spot as worthy of death as if a freeman had been slain.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
In an appendix to this book, you will then find not only Mrs. Packard's appeal to Illinois' legislature of 1867, but also the noble manly response of its legislators, as echoed by their own honorable acts.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
The hopes held out by the promoters of the Union were not realized without prolonged and violent agitation, and the cause of Ireland appeared doubly alien, clothed in the garb of a Church alien to the legislators to whom appeal was made.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry