Case of
the Chinese Wife (1884)
nField says that he
is sensitive to the “hardship” of
separating “man and wife.” What is his solution?
nWe are not
insensible to the earnest remarks of counsel
as to the hardship of separating man and
wife. With our notions of the sacredness of that relation, they appeal with striking force. But here the relation was voluntarily assumed in the face of the law forbidding her coming to the United States without the required certificate. And they need not now be separated. He can return with and protect his child-wife in the celestial empire.