Excerpt from Case of General Fitz-John Porter: Mr. Choates Argument for Petitioner, West Point, 1879It was not, you will observe, justice to the accused, but justice to the public service, that the Secretary appealed to as the final motive for a hasty decision of the case.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.