It was for many and obvious reasons most anxiously desired that the question of the power of the legislature over this charter should have been finally decided in the State court.  An earnest hope was entertained that the judges of the court might have viewed the case in a light favorable to the rights of the trustees.  That hope has failed.  It is here that those rights are now to be maintained, or they are prostrated for ever.  “Omnia alia perfugia bonorum, subsidia, consilia, auxilia, jura ceciderunt.  Quem enim alium appellem? quem obtester? quem implorem?  Nisi hoc loco, nisi apud vos, nisi per vos, judices, salutem nostram, quae spe exigua extremaque pendet, tenuerimus; nihil est praeterea quo confugere possimus.”

[Footnote 1:  Calder et ux. v.  Bull, 3 Dallas, 386.]

[Footnote 2:  Annual Register, 1784, p. 160; Parl.  Reg. 1783; Mr. Burke’s Speech on Mr. Fox’s East India Bill, Burke’s Works, Vol.  II. pp. 414, 417, 467, 468, 486.]

[Footnote 3:  1 Black. 472, 473.]

[Footnote 4:  3 Burr. 1656.]

[Footnote 5:  King v.  Pasmore, 3 Term Rep. 244.]

[Footnote 6:  King v.  Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 3 Burr. 1656; 3 Term Rep. 240,—­Lord Kenyon.]

[Footnote 7:  3 Burr. 1661, and King v.  Pasmore, ubi supra.]

[Footnote 8:  Ellis v.  Marshall, 2 Mass.  Rep. 277; 1 Kyd on Corporations, 65, 66.]

[Footnote 9:  1 Wooddeson, 474; 1 Black. 467.]

[Footnote 10:  1 Black. 471.]

[Footnote 11:  Ves. 537.]

[Footnote 12:  9 Ves.  Jun. 405.]

[Footnote 13:  1 Wood. 474.]

[Footnote 14:  1 Black. 471.]

[Footnote 15:  2 Term Rep. 350, 351.]

[Footnote 16:  1 Black. 480.]

[Footnote 17:  1 Lord Raymond, 5; Comb. 265; Holt, 715; 1 Shower. 360; 4 Mod. 106; Skinn. 447.]

[Footnote 18:  1 Lord Raymond, 9.]

[Footnote 19:  1 Burn’s Eccles.  Law, 443, Appendix No. 3]

[Footnote 20:  2 Forb. 205, 206.]

[Footnote 21:  Green v.  Rutherforth, 1 Ves. 472, per Lord Hardwicke.]

[Footnote 22:  Attorney-General v.  Foundling Hospital, 2 Ves.  Jun. 47.  See also 2 Kyd on Corporations, 195; Cooper’s Equity Pleading, 292.]

[Footnote 23:  St. John’s College, Cambridge, v.  Todington, 1 Burr. 200.]

[Footnote 24:  Attorney-General v.  Middleton, 2 Ves. 328.]

[Footnote 25:  Green v.  Rutherforth, ubi supra; St. John’s College v.  Todington, ubi supra.]

[Footnote 26:  4 Term Rep. 233.]

[Footnote 27:  Black., ubi supra.]

[Footnote 28:  2 Black.  Com. 37.]

[Footnote 29:  Sull. 41st Lect.]

[Footnote 30:  Phillips v.  Bury, and Green v.  Rutherforth, ubi supra.  See also 2 Black. 21.]

[Footnote 31:  Ashby v.  White, 2 Lord Raymond, 938.]

[Footnote 32:  Attorney-General v.  Pearce, 2 Atk. 87.]