...le to support him by a speech on finance as he had hoped. He conversed at his seat with Mr. Spofford, the librarian, who came to consult him on the authorship of Hargrave's Argument in the Case of James Somersett , a Negro, etc.,—a book with which he had been long familiar. While in the Senate he felt again, at times severely, the pains in his side, referring to them in conversation as they came, and al...