[322] Act of Feb. 28, 1803; 2 Stat. L. 295.
[323] Brig Wilson, 1 Brockenborough, 423 (1820).
[324] Act of August 19, 1911; 37 Stat. L. 25.
[325] Ex parte Siebold, 100 U. S. 371 (1879).
[326] Hanover Bank v. Moyses, 186 U. S. 181 (1902).
[327] Ex parte Jackson, 96 U. S. 727 (1878); see the quotation from this case, below, pp. [115–116].
[328] Ex parte Jackson, 96 U. S. 733 (1878); italics are mine.
[329] In re Rapier, 143 U. S. 110 (1892); 26 Stat. L. 465.
[330] Champion v. Ames, 188 U. S. 321 (1902). See Goodnow, Social Reform and the Constitution, p. 83, and 2 Willoughby on the Constitution, 741. A flatfooted declaration that the liberty of the press is subject to police regulations concerning what is to be carried in the mails, would, I think, have been justifiable. But the holding of the Jackson case is different.
[331] Schofield, Freedom of the Press in the United States, p. 82.