UnStorming Sheridan >> Story Two >> Pullman

"Under the law as you assume it to be, a President, through any of his appointees, can apply to himself to have the military sent into any city, and base his application on such representations as he sees fit. This assumption is new, and I submit, it is not the law of the land. The jurists tell us this is a Government of law, and not a Government by caprice of an individual."

John Peter Altgeld