trust will forever stand, in the Constitution of my country. I had read  and that is what induced me to attempt to impose by constitutional amendments new limitations upon the power of the States  the great decision of Marshall in Barron vs. the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, wherein the Chief Justice said, in obedience to his official oath and the Constitution as it then was: `The amendments [to the Constitution] contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the State governments. This court cannot so apply them.'  7 Peters p. 250.
"In this case the city had taken private property for public use, without compensation as alleged, and there was no redress for the wrong in the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates; and only for this reason, the first eight amendments were not limitations on the power of the States.
"And so afterward, in the case of the Lessee of Livingstone vs. Moore . . . the court ruled, `it is now settled that the amendments [to the Constitution] do not extend to the States.' They were but limitations upon Congress. Jefferson well said of the first eight articles of amendments to the Constitution of the United States, they constitute the American Bill of Rights. Those amendments secured the citizens against any deprivation of any essential rights of person by any act of Congress, and among other things thereby they were secured *114 in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, in the inviolability of their